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Canvas Readings & Resources: Duplicate Lists

Duplicate Lists from Previous Terms

If you are teaching a course that used Readings & Resources in the past, you can duplicate that list and use it as a starting point for the current course.

From the initial Readings & Resources screen, Select Existing List.

You will see a list of your available lists. Select Duplicate List for the one you want.  

link to Duplicate list from another course

Under Advanced Settings, you can select which elements of the list you want to duplicate. 

Create List option with the Advanced Settings showing which elements can be copied across to the new list

Copy Lists from Other Sections

If you are teaching multiple concurrent sections of a course, you can use the same list for all of them.

  1. Go to the list you want to duplicate.
  2. Click on the three ellipses at the top of your screen and then "Manage link to course."
  3. Choose to "Add another course" to the current list.

highlighting the three dots that reveals the Manage Link to Course option

Use the Add Another Course link to add. 

links for Add another Course or the trashcan to delete a course

View Lists

The default view in Canvas shows the Readings & Resources list associated with the course you are currently in. But you can use the backwards-pointing arrow to view all your lists across courses, including those that may not be associated with a course. 

left pointing arrow next to the title of the current list view

Here you can view all lists, and manage them with the three-dot Lists menu.

Canvas page showing all lists you have created, and the 3-dot menu to manage them

View Favorites

Favorites is a collection of items from Library Search that is separate from your resource lists. When searching within Readings & Resources or in Library Search, you can save items to Favorites for later use. You can also “Save as favorite” an item that you have already added to a list. Using Favorites can be an efficient way to add the same item to multiple courses.