Course templates

• Course properties and features (except settings for AICC and the course catalogue)
• Folders (including which elements are allowed in the folder)
• Assignments, without the answers that have been submitted
• Discussions (including the first post in the first thread and the metadata)
• Tests, without the answers that have been submitted
• Surveys, without the answers that have been submitted
• Files (without their earlier versions or the log)
• Course files
• Links (if they point to the course files, the links are updated automatically)
• Links between resources and activities that have been added through the 'Insert tree link' option of the editor, updated automatically.
• Lessons
• Pages
• Extensions (limited to those that are shared)
• The planner and planner lessons
• Learning objectives, assessment criteria, and achievement levels
• Assessment record (without assessments but with settings, terms, categories, and columns)
• Terms
• The assessment scales in use
• The submission statuses in use
• Permissions for standard course profiles (Administrator, Teacher, Pupil, and guest) and groups
• Dashboards

The following elements are not included:

• Participants
• Pictures with description
• Explaining sequences
• Proxy tools
• Process-oriented documents

1. Enter the course you want to share.
2. Click Settings.
3. Click Course properties and features.
4. Under Share as template, select the organisation or site with which you want to share the course.
5. Click Save.

1. Click the Courses tab.
2. Click Add course.
3. Under Select course type, select Based on an existing course or a template.
4. Click Browse for course template.
5. Click on the course you want to use as a template (you can use the Show filter to display only your own courses, template courses, or all courses).
6. Enter a title and, if desired, a course code.
7. Select the organisation.
8. Click Save.

It may take a while for the content from the course template to be copied. During copying, a progress indicator appears next to the course title in the navigation tree.



If you tick the Send me a message when the course is created box when you are adding the course, itslearning will send you a message when the course is ready for use.

1. Open the existing course, and navigate to Properties and features in the 'Course settings' menu.
2. Click on Apply template, in the top right corner of the page.
3. Click Browse for course template.
4. Click on the course you want to use as a template (you can use the Show filter to display only your own courses, template courses, or all courses).
5. If the template uses terms, you will now be given the choice of keeping the same terms or selecting new ones.
6. Click Next step.
7. You now see a summary of the changes that will be made to your course. Newly enabled features will be listed in the 'New features' section.
8. Click Apply template.

It may take a while for the content from the course template to be copied. During copying, a progress indicator appears next to the course title in the navigation tree.



If you tick the Send me a message when the course is created box when you are adding the course, itslearning will send you a message when the course is ready for use.

1. Open the course you want to use as a template.
2. Click Settings.
3. Click Course properties and features.
4. From the cog wheel icon, select Apply this template.
5. A page with different settings appear that allows you to decide whether to:
   • Apply the template to courses that have already had this template applied or to selected courses. The first option updates the course with new content and settings and will not duplicate previously added content, such as course elements, groups, planners and assessment items. The second option allows you to browse for the course or courses to which you want to apply the template.
   • Keep or replace the dashboards.
   • Select what to do with terms.
   • Change the course to regular (if they use an early-learner type).
   • Select whether to append new assessments and categories to the selected courses or apply template assessment record settings to the selected courses.
   • Clear dates in plans.
6. Click Next step.
7. Click Apply template.