There will be a new course purge schedule that will start immediately.
Courses will now be preserved for 5 academic years.
- This change is due to the fact that some courses were only being offered every 4 years and the system office wanted to give those courses a chance not to be purged.
- If you think you may need a course more that 5 years, down the road, you can preserve a course by saving it a ZIP file to your computer and then importing the course into a course shell at the appropriate time.
Click “Course Admin” on the course navigation bar:
Click the Import/Export/Copy Components option:
Ensure that “from a course package” is selected
Click the “Start” Button:
Check “Select All Components”:
Click the “Continue” Button:
Ensure that “Include course files in the export package” is checked
Click the “Export” button:
Click the “Done” button:
Note: You will receive an alert when the Export is finished:
Click the “Bell” icon to receive the alert:
Save the ZIP file to a safe location by clicking on the link “to download the export ZIP package”:
Click the “Done” button:
To Import a D2L Course to a site from a saved location on your computer:
From the course navigation bar, click “Course Admin”:
Click the “Import / Export / Copy Components” Link:
Click “Import Components”:
Ensure that “from a course package” is selected
Click the “Start” button:
Click the “Upload” button:
Use the “File Upload” dialog box to select the file and then click “Open”:
Click the “Import All Components” button:
Note: It may take a while for the import process to finish
Click the “View Content” button to ensure all the content is imported:
