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Thanks for the write-up Jim. Helpful AND painful. I have made similar tests and had to tell faculty the bad news on many occasions over the years. We have also discovered that question banks overwrite any changes the hard way. As pkamatan noted, this can be quite disruptive if you import content a second time and overwrite a quiz that has already been taken by students. Thankfully, student responses are still available alongside the original questions within SpeedGrader. However, point totals can change and the quiz will have to be edited yet again to match up with the original to make sense of the situation. Said a different way, the student score (numerator) will stay the same, but the total points (denominator) can change when the quiz is overwritten on second import/copy. Since this is designed behavior, has anyone seen a good write-up as to why it is beneficial to instructors? Obviously, this is not a bug, but I struggle to understand the rationale for it. It certainly can be a mess to have new copies accidentally added to a course. However, it is better to have accidental duplicates than to have accidental data loss.  Lots of folks don't read the guides, and it can be confusing even if you do. On this page there is an overly-broad warning that is true for some (but not all) content: https://community.canvaslms.com/t5/Instructor-Guide/How-do-I-copy-content-from-another-Canvas-course-using-the/ta-p/1012 However, on the question bank import guide there is no such warning: https://community.canvaslms.com/t5/Instructor-Guide/How-do-I-import-a-question-bank-from-one-Canvas-course-to/ta-p/1264 Not to dilute your suggestion, but to add to the conversation... having two different types of copy is fine as long as folks understand it. Personally, I would prefer a single, "copy/import and please don't destroy all of my hard work" function. The workflow needs to be intuitive and non-destructive. I can see three options, in order of preference: 1. Implement Jim's idea... it is a good one. 2. Change the copy/import so that additional copies are made instead of overwriting data. 3. Throw a warning whenever import/copy is about to overwrite data. As you debate the relative merits of this idea it should also be noted that there is no suitable backup for lost data in these instances. Looking for content in Beta only works some of the time. Our team has seen MANY instances where content is created and then lost since the weekend "backup". ... View more