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Materials: Export & Import All Materials

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This article details how educators can export and import Materials to Aula using a .json file (a file that stores data in JavaScript Object Notation format). This can be done between different spaces or between an external source and an Aula space.

Export All Materials

To export all Materials from a specific Aula space follow the steps below.

  1. In the space that you'd like to export Materials from, head to Journey > Materials.
  2. Click on the 3 dots symbol ⋮ at the top of the Materials sidebar and choose to Export material.
  3. Select a relevant location to download a .json file to your computer. You do not need to open the .json file. 
gif showing the cursor clicking on the three dots in Materials, then on Export Material

 

Import All Materials

Once you've exported your Materials from your space, or if you have a .json file exported from a different platform, you can import it to a relevant space in Aula.

  1. In the space that you'd like to import Materials to, head to Journey > Materials.
  2. Click on the 3 dots symbol ⋮ at the top of the Materials sidebar and choose to Import material.
  3. Select a relevant .json file from your computer. Again, no need to open the .json file. 
    gif showing the cursor clicking on the three dots in Materials, then on Import Material

Note

  • An entire Section cannot be exported from a space page.
  • You may need to re-create assignment links, LTI blocks, and files on the new space as they do not transfer between spaces and are unique to specific spaces.
  • Assignments, feed posts, group messages and DMs will not be transferred.
  • All newly imported content will be added below any existing Material.
  • Importing material will add to the existing content instead of replacing it.

 

Note on Importing a Discussion

  • Whenever a user imports a JSON file on materials, and the JSON file was created from a material page(s) that had a discussion topic, then the discussion topic will also be imported.
  • The comments on the discussion will not be exported or imported, but only the topic.
  • Any pre-existing JSON file that was created from a page that had a discussion topic, will also import the discussion topic, as the exporter had already included the topic, it just wasn't being imported.
  • If you import content to an existing page, the discussion title does not import, but only the text is appended to the existing page. However, If you import as a new page/all materials, you see the page with its title and discussion topic which is imported.

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