Make a copy of one of my courses
If you teach the same subject at two levels, or you want a shorter version of a course without the assessment, you have probably built the second one by hand - making a new course and re-adding every lesson.
You don't have to. Ask for a copy.
Make a copy of my Maternity Nurse Level 3 course and call it Maternity Nurse Level 4.
Every lesson comes across with its notes, its video, its worksheets, its running order and its sections. So do the quizzes. It takes seconds even for a very large course, because nothing is uploaded again - the copy points at the same video and worksheet files you already have.
The copy is genuinely yours to change
That's the whole point of it, and two decisions protect it.
The quizzes are copied, not shared. Rewrite a question in the copy and the original course's question stays exactly as it was. If they were shared, tidying up your Level 4 quiz would quietly change what your Level 3 students sit.
The payment side is separate from the first moment. The copy is created as a draft with no payment attached to it, so it isn't on sale and nobody can enrol. When you do price it and publish it, that price is its own. You cannot change what your existing students are paying by adjusting the copy.
What deliberately does not come across
Your students, and everything they have done. Enrolments, progress, completed lessons, quiz attempts and certificates all stay with the original course. They belong to people who signed up for that course, and moving them would be wrong in every direction.
The lesson-by-lesson edit history. The copy's history starts when it is made. The original's history goes on describing edits to the original.
Course-specific styling. If you have styling written for that one course, it is tied to the original course's web address, and the copy has a new one. Bernard names both addresses when he finishes so you can ask him to bring those rules across - it is one more instruction, not a rebuild.
Then make it different
Most people copy a course in order to change it. The fastest way to do the changing is to ask for it course-wide rather than lesson by lesson - renaming the qualification everywhere, or removing a phrase that only applied to the original (Change the same thing in every lesson of my course).
If you only want a few lessons rather than the whole course, that's a different ask (Use the same lesson in two of my courses).
When the copy says what you want it to say, set its price and publish it like any other course.
The prompt
“Make a copy of my [course name] course and call it [new name].”
Press Copy, then paste it into your AI and fill in the [bracketed] parts. First time? Connect your AI to bernard first - a one-time setup in bernard → your site → Use your own AI.
Questions people ask
- Does it copy my videos again?
- No, and that matters if your course is large. The copy points at the same video files you already uploaded, so a course with hundreds of gigabytes of video copies in seconds and uses no extra storage. Editing the copy's lessons never touches the original's.
- Will the copy start selling straight away?
- No. The copy is created as a draft with no payment attached to it at all. Nobody can buy it and nobody is enrolled on it until you approve it - you set a price and publish it yourself when it is ready.
- If I change the price of the copy, does the original change too?
- No. The copy has its own payment setup from the moment it exists, deliberately separate from the original's. This is the thing that would be most damaging to get wrong, so it is the thing most carefully kept apart - you cannot accidentally re-price a course people are already buying.
- What about my students?
- They stay with the original. Enrolments, progress, completed lessons and quiz results all belong to the people who signed up for the course they signed up for, so none of it is copied to the new one. The copy starts with nobody on it.
- Are the quizzes copied or shared?
- Copied, so they are yours to change. If they were shared, editing a question in the copy would silently change the same question in the original course - which is the opposite of why you made a copy.
- Will the copy look the same?
- The content will. If you have styling written specially for that one course, that is attached to the original course's web address and won't follow the copy. Bernard tells you both names when he's finished so you can ask him to carry the styling across.