Linking Existing Sections Together

Linking Existing Sections Together

1. Click your Courses drop-down menu and and select My Courses.
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
2. In your list of courses, click the gear icon to the right of the section you consider to be the "master section". If you have materials in both courses, the "master section" is the one that holds the materials and grades you would like to continue to use between the two sections.
   
3. Select Link Existing Sections from the dropddown.
4. Select the section(s) to link and click Next.
5. As a safeguard against losing grade data for child sections, you must select to download a grade export file for each section being linked. See the "Gradebook File Download when Linking or Unlinking Sections" instructions below for details.
6. Select the file type to download:
   • As a Standard CSV spreadsheet.
   • As a CSV file that you can use to import into other systems, such as an SIS.
7. Click Download and Next.
8. Click Link Sections.
9. A warning message displays:

   "Materials from (section name) will not be copied into: (section name). Once complete, the sections will share: grade setup, materials, and course profile (of the destination section). Member enrollments will still belong to their respective sections."
   
   This means that the section for which you clicked the gear icon will be the master section–the linked sections will now all have access to and use the materials in that master section. This includes Course Materials and items in your Grade Setup (such as Grading Categories, Rubrics, etc). However, the original rosters of students when the sections were separate will remain the same after you link the sections.

10. Click Link Sections.
    
    
    

If the requirements for linked sections are not met, the other section(s) will be grayed out. If you hover your mouse over the grayed-out section, you will see a tooltip explaining the cause of the issue.