Importing Moodle Courses

1. Go to the new course.
2. Make sure the new course has the same format as the old course (i.e. Grid format, Topics format, dates, etc). If necessary, click on [Edit Settings] in the gear menu and change the “Course Format” setting, then click [Save and display] at the bottom of the page. This is especially crucial if you are importing a course that used the Grid format; that is, make certain the new course is switched to Grid format before performing the import.
3. Click the gear menu, then click Import.
4. Select which of your previous courses you would like to Import. If the list is long you can type the name of the course in the search box to find it. Click the [Continue] button.
5. On the next page click the [Next] button.
6. On the next page you will see all the resources and activities in the course. If you wish to copy over everything, scroll to the bottom of the page and click [Next]. You may also choose to copy specific items only by checking or un-checking the boxes to the left of items.
7. On the next page scroll to the bottom and click [Perform import].
8. Allow Moodle to finish restoring the course (this may take a few minutes), and then click the [Continue] button at the bottom.
9. You’ve copied your course data, and it should now be visible in the new course.
10. If you have any “timed” elements, such as assignments with a specific due date or other resources that become visible/hidden at a particular time, you can adjust them for the current semester by clicking the gear menu, then click More…, then “Dates” under the Reports section.  On the resulting page, select the Activity type (such as Assignment) from the dropdown box, then click Expand all.  You should see a list of all activities that have a date associated with them and can adjust them as necessary.  When finished, click [Save changes] at the top or bottom.  You can easily repeat this for other activity types.

Note: To successfully import a course, the imported course must have section labels for all topic blocks.