How do I copy my content from one site to another?

When you create new Sakai sites, you may want to copy content such as Lesson pages, Resources, Announcements, and Assignments from an older site into your new site. The Import from Site tab in Site Info allows you to select content from one or more tools from an older site and copy the content into the new site.

Select the Site Info tool in the Tool Menu.

Site Info tool highlighted in the site Tool Menu.

Select the Site Info tool from the Tool Menu of your destination site for the content you plan to copy.

Select Import from Site.

Import from Site tab highlighted in Site Info tabs.

Click Import from Site from Site Info tabs.

Select the course you want to copy from.

List of sites with site you want to copy from highlighted.

Select the site you want to copy content from from the list of sites.

Click Continue.

Buttons with Continue button highlighted.

Click the Continue button.

Choose the material you would like to copy.

  1. Use the checkbox at the top of the right column to select content from all tools.
  2. Alternatively, you can check the boxes to the right of each tool to select a subset of content to be copied.

If a tool is not active in the current site, the tool will have a + mark to indicate that it will be added to the current site if selected for import.

Note: For each tool selected, all of the content for that tool will be copied into the new course.

Click Finish.

Buttons with Finish button highlighted.

Once you have made your tool selections, click Finish to complete the import.

Note: The content import process may take a while depending on how much content you have, or if your institution has a queue for course imports on the server. Please wait for the process to finish.