New courses are created as empty shells. If you want to import content from a previous semester's course, please follow these instructions.
On the front page of your new course, you can click Import existing content > then Copy a Canvas course.
From your course home page, choose Import existing content.
Choose Copy Canvas Course as the content type, and search for your course code/title from where you want to copy contents content from.
Make sure you choose the course from the preceding semester to copy.
Then select All content. If you only need to copy specific parts of the course, then choose Select specific content.
Finally, click Import.
The import process will start. If you chose Select specific content, you select the specific content after the import process has begun.
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