Importing Reserve Items from Previous Courses: Step-by-step guide
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Jill Vasquez

Created May 17, 2023

Importing Reserve Items from Previous Courses: Step-by-step guide

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Canvas Dashboard

8 Steps
Go to https://canvas.iastate.edu/
1

Click on your course

Click on course tile
2

Click on Course Reserves

Click on Course Reserves
3

Click on Add Reserve Items

Click on Add Reserve Items
4

Scroll down to the Import Items section

This is where you will import items from a previous class. You will not need to re-enter citation information when importing previous items.

Scroll down to the Import Items section
5

Click on Import Items

Choose the class you want to use, and click on the underlined Import Items link. If you click on View Course or the highlighted row, you will go to a preview page and NOT the import page.

Click on the underlined Import Items link
6

Confirm Import From and Import To courses

Import From your previous course, Import To your current course.

Confirm Import From and Import To courses are correct
7

Click Import Items

All items are automatically checked. See the green circle. These will be imported to the new class. You need to manually uncheck any item you no longer wish to use.

Click Import Items
8

Find newly imported item(s) under Reserve Items section

Each item with a blue checkmark in Step 7 will be added to the Reserve Items section alphabetically by Title.

Find newly imported item(s) under Reserve Items section
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