How to Copy the Layout from a Source Course

Canvas offers the ability to copy content from one course to another. This is very useful when you have multiple sections of the same course or you want to copy course content from a previous semester or term to the current course. When you copy content from one course to another course, the original course is called the "source" course. If Delphinium was enabled in the source course, the Delphinium link will appear in the left-hand navigation of the new course after you copy the Canvas content.

Delphinium will automatically detect if the current course was copied from a source course that used Delphinium and give you the option to copy the layout and other Delphinium settings from the source course to the current course. Details for this process are found below.

Begin Delphinium Settings Copy

Start by clicking Delphinium in in the Canvas course left-hand navigation. The Delphinium onboarding tool will load.

Gather More Information

Delphinium will automatically detect if the current course was copied from a source course that used Delphinium. It will then collect more information from the source course.

Ready to Copy

When Delphinium has finished gathering data, you can click Next to continue.

Manually Match Meta-data

If Delphinium detects that the content in the two courses are different, it will ask you to manually match the content by selecting matching. This step is optional and you can skip it, how ever, if you skip some meta-data like box content images, tags, and parent-child relationships will not copy over to the new course.

Note: This step is optional and will not appear if there is no unmatched meta-data between the two courses.

Note: See the Pro Tip below to learn how to avoid this step.

Additional Information

Finally, Delphinium asks you to provide some additional information about your course like the start and end date and max points. You can use the "Count for Me" feature to find your max points, or you can add the max points value manually.