Copy Courses

About Copy Courses

Many institutions often have similar class offerings from semester to semester. Campus Café has the ability to duplicate the entire class schedule from one semester to another. Institutions may also duplicate all courses with the same section number to a different section number.

Prerequisites

Before copying a schedule of courses:

• Establish a Registration Control record for the semester to which you are copying courses to
• If copying from semester to semester, configure Semester Dates for the semester to which you are copying courses. 
• If copying courses associated with a site, configure semester dates for each site that will be copied.

Copy Courses from Semester to Semester

This process copies all courses in the term to another term.

1. Navigate to Registrar > Course Finder OR Filters > Courses
2. Click Copy Courses
3. In the Copy From semester, choose the semester to duplicate
4. Optionally in the sub-semester, choose the sub-semester to duplicate
5. In the To New Semester, choose the semester in which the duplicated classes will be scheduled
6. Check whether to copy all sub-semesters
7. In the Copy Semester Dates Information For Site, choose the site to copy (optional)
8. Check the box whether to copy the day and time of classes. Checking this box will also copy the Room entered on the course Location tab.
9. Choose whether to copy full and/or part time faculty. Note for this feature to work, faculty must be classified as full or part time on the Faculty Info screen.
10. Click Copy
    Please note that if you do not select a site, you will receive an error that the process failed. However, the courses will have, indeed, copied.

Copy Courses Within A Term

This process duplicates all courses of the specified section number within a term to a new section number. The process will not overwrite or update an existing sections.

1. Navigate to Registrar > Course Finder OR Filters > Courses
2. Click Copy Courses.
3. Select the semester from Copy From semester.
4. Select the section number to copy in Copy From Section. All courses in the selected term with this section number will be duplicated.
5. Enter a new section number in the To New Section box. All courses copied will be assigned this section number
6. Select the site to copy from Copy Semester Dates Information for Site (optional).
7. Select whether or not to copy the day and time of classes. Checking this box will also copy the Room entered on the course Location tab.
8. Select whether or not to copy full and/or part time faculty. Note: In order for this feature to work, faculty must be classified as full or part time on the Faculty Info screen.
9. Click Copy.
   Please note, if you do not select a site, you will receive an error that the process failed. However, the courses will have successfully copied.