Existing Learn courses can be downloaded to preserve instructional content. Downloaded content may also aid in importing content to Canvas, our new learning management system, but requires manually copying and pasting all content.
NOTE: Make sure to give yourself plenty of time. This process may fail to generate a download and you will need to reach out to Kadenze Support.
NOTE: Do not try to download multiple courses simultaneously. Only one course can be exported at a time. Please wait until you receive an email with a download link before trying another course. For large courses, this process can take up to 30 minutes.
What to check before downloading your course
Look throughout your course for any surveys, along with any point values. Look throughout your course for any gallery assessments, along with any point values. These assessment tool does not exist in Canvas and will need to be restructured as discussions.
Video and audio files are often large in file size and can result in significantly longer processing times. If you have files stored locally, you are strongly encouraged to upload them to Panopto. Log-in to http://sso.calarts.edu and click on the green Panopto tile. Follow these instructions to upload video and audio to your new Panopto folder.
Remove any unneeded or duplicate materials from Resources, and all content areas and content folders.
Downloading your course
Downloading a course creates a snapshot of a course that contains all content, records, and user activity like submissions, forum posts, etc. Users can download any course if they're the instructor.
- Open the course you would like to download.
- Go to Course Info > Export Course in the left navigation bar.
3. Choose Download Course from the options.
4. Select which parts of the course you'd like included in your download.
- Course Content: This is the content you've created for your course. You will want to enable all these (Sessions, Coursework, Resources, Announcements).
- Student Content: This is the content created by your students, like forum posts and coursework submissions. Feel free to disable if you don’t need past student work.
- Media: These are any media files you've uploaded to your course. It includes images, audio, video, and any other files that were uploaded as-is.
- Large media downloads can take hours for Kannu to process. If you have local backups, courses will export much faster with media types disabled.
5. Click Export Course at the bottom of the menu. The system will start generating your ZIP download in the background, and you'll receive an email with a link to the download once it's complete. Remember to wait until you receive an email before downloading another course.
Navigating Your Course Download
Your course will download as a zip file. Extracting your course will create many folders. The folders in the ZIP contain everything you can downloaded.
- coursework: Contains assignments. Each file is a separate assignment and includes dates, description, instructions, and grading criteria.
- coursework_entry: Contains confirmations of successful student assignment submissions. Actual submissions are elsewhere. You can ignore this folder.
- coursework_entry_index: Contains index pages for confirmations of successful student assignment submissions. You can ignore this folder.
- csv: Contains up to three data files in .csv format. “students.csv” is a roster of enrolled students, “grades.csv” is a spreadsheet of all course grades, and "results.csv" is any survey results. These are all spreadsheets you can open up in your preferred spreadsheet software.
- forum: Contains files with only the title of discussions. You can ignore this folder.
- Info.html: This file is your syllabus.
- lecture: Contains your sessions. Each file is a separate session.
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media: Contains folders holding your course media. Each folder is described below.
- course: Contains course images including your class logo, banner, homepage images, etc.
- coursework: Contains folders for each assignment. Inside are all students file submissions.
To help you navigate these, you'll find a file in the top level called "index.html" that runs in any browser (you won't need an internet connection, though). This file lets you navigate through your course in a similar way to if it was the online version.
NOTE: If you rename or remove files in this download, you may not be able to use this feature effectively. If you need to use it somewhere else, we recommend copying the files and leaving the original in place.
If you have trouble with your download, please click here to troubleshoot your course download.
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