Create a Backup/Export of Your Course

Quick steps:

1. Select your course.
2. Click the Course Admin link.
3. Click the Import/Export/Copy Components link.
4. Click the radio button for Export as Brightspace Package.
5. Click the Start button.
6. Click Select All Components checkbox.
7. Click the Continue button.
8. Confirm Components to Export.
9. Check the box to Include course files in the export package.
10. Click Export.
11. You will see a message that "Your export has been started. You will receive a notification in the Update Alerts when it has completed."
12. Click Done.
13. Once it's ready, click the link to download the .zip package to your desktop for backup.
14. Click Done.

You can export components from your course offering to a file. This allows you to reuse these components in another learning management system, including another D2L Learning Environment, or to store the components and then re-import them into another course offering or template at a later date.

Components are exported to an IMSCP-compliant .zip file, a standard file format based on the IMS Content Packaging specification, meaning you should be able to reuse these components in any learning management system that supports this format.