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vshuali · ‎04-15-2021

I second jkulstad's comment: it is better to have accidental duplicates than to have accidental data loss. This "feature" has been reported many times and is a major usability concern. Why is Canvas not taking this seriously? Is it that difficult to separate "Copy and link" from "Copy and dissociate"? Or at the very least, to check if the source document has already been copied before, and to issue a warning if it does?

vshuali · ‎03-11-2021

Not sure why this topic is labeled as Solved.

vshuali · ‎03-11-2021

Last semester I created an assignment, let's call it Lab 1. I am using it as a template for the current semester. So I go to last semester's assignment and go to Copy to... and then select my current semester's course. I then go to my current semester's course and rename Lab 1 as Lab 1a. I modify this Lab 1a's content to make it relevant for this semester's content. Now it's time to create Lab 2. I go to the previous semester's course as go to Copy to... and do the same thing. I go to the current semester's course and there are now two links to Lab 1. Both of them link to the same assignment: a copy of last year's Lab 1. Lab 1a is gone but fortunately the submissions are still there, somehow labeled as Lab 1's submissions. How do I recover the content for this year's Lab 1a? How do I make a Lab 2 that's based on last year's Lab 1? What is the proper way of using a previous course's assignment as a template to be reused multiple times in a new course?

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