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Remove announcements when copying a Canvas site

Updated on January 25, 2023

Why you might want to remove announcements

Announcements are often unique to the communication needs of a particular semester and student cohort, so many instructors find that they do not want to bring over their old announcements when they copy course content into a new course. This page will show you how to remove announcements when you are doing a course import. The following instructions work for any Selective Import of content.

How to remove announcements while doing a selective import

In your new course site, click on “Settings” in the course menu on the left side of the page.

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Then, click “Import Content into this Course” on the right side of the screen.

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On the Import Content page:

1. Pull down the Content Type menu and select Copy a Canvas Course.

2. Then select the course from the drop-down menu.

3. Choose “Select specific content”.

4. Click the “Import” button.  Canvas, won’t begin to copy until you finish making your selections.

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Click the “Select Content” button. It may take a while for content to appear as Canvas gathers content.  (There will be another Select content in step 8.)

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1. Check off the categories you want to import.

2. Do not check the box by Announcements.

3. Click the “Select Content” button.

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If you wish, you can be even more selective and bring over some announcements and not others:

1. Click the arrow by Announcements, which will reveal a list of all announcements in the site you are importing.

2. Check off any announcements you want to include in the current site.

3. Click “Select Content”.

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Keep in mind: If you’ve neglected to import something you want, you can repeat the process selecting only the missing item.

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