Book Orders & Course Cloning

Elliot Mead

4 Book Orders & Course Cloning

Textbooks

Adjunct faculty teaching in-person, virtual, and hybrid classes may use your own materials or OER instead of assigned textbook, but if you choose a textbook it must be the DFC approved one:

ACL 80 Breaking Through: College Reading
REA 091 Bridging the Gap 13 ed. (Optional: one or more novels/memoirs)
REA 112 Reading for Thinking

Acquiring Instructor Copies

For a digital copy of Breaking Through and Bridging the Gap you will need a Pearson Account. This guide will walk you through the process: How can I request a desk copy?

For Mindscapes, you will need to create a Cengage Account; instructions are available at: Creating an Account (Educator)

Course cloning & pre-designed curriculum

There is pre-designed curriculum (PimaOnline Course Master) for all faculty to use for both REA091 and REA112. The names, if you wish to request them yourself, are:

REA091_M
REA112_M

Adjunct faculty teaching Online modality courses are required to use the PimaOnline Course Master for REA091 and REA112.

There is no pre-designed curriculum for Reading 091 or REA112 in-person classes, nor for ACL080 of any modality. We are glad to support you on adopting elements of the Online course to your face to face or virtual course.

At the end of each semester I will send out a cloning request form and place all Online class cloning requests along with any virtual or face to face cloning needs you have.

For College procedure information about course cloning please see page 4 of the LMS & eLearning Quality Faculty Handbook. In general, please remember these guidelines:

🛑 STOP! How NOT to Clone!

This is a critical instructional guide. When you copy or paste an HTML page from an old course, the links inside that page DO NOT UPDATE. This breaks both your interactive H5P activities (which won’t grade) and your internal D2L navigation.

I. General D2L Copy/Import Warnings (The Foundation)

MISTAKE	ACTION TO STOP IMMEDIATELY	OUTCOME
Copying components multiple times.	Copying the entire course or the same components (like quizzes or discussion topics) from the source course more than once will create duplicates.	You will have multiple identical versions of content, assignments, and grade items, causing student confusion and grading errors.
Forgetting to update dates manually.	Relying on the date offset tool to correctly update all Due Dates, End Dates, and Release Conditions.	Due dates and restrictions will likely still point to the old semester’s dates, causing students to miss deadlines or lose access to material.

II. Critical Link-Breaking Mistakes to Avoid

The core problem is simple: A copied HTML page or file retains the ID of the old course in its links.

BROKEN LINK TYPE	MISTAKE	OUTCOME
Internal D2L Quicklinks (e.g., links to a Quiz, a Dropbox, or another Content Topic)	You copy/paste an HTML page that uses the Quicklink tool to connect to another part of the course.	The link will be broken or, worse, it will direct students to the content in the old course shell, which they cannot access.
External Graded H5P (LTI Links)	You copy/paste an HTML page containing an embedded H5P activity that is designed to send a grade to D2L.	The H5P activity will appear, but it is a static, non-functional link. It will NEVER create a Gradebook item or send student scores.

What You MUST Do Instead

To ensure your links function correctly, you must re-insert or re-create the link within the new course environment using the appropriate D2L tool.

A. How to Fix Broken Internal Links (Quizzes, Topics, Discussions)

If an HTML page contains a link to another D2L component, you must edit the page and rebuild the link:

Go to the HTML page in the new course that you just copied over. Click “Edit HTML”.
Highlight the text that contains the broken link (e.g., “Click here to take the Final Exam”).
Delete the old, broken link.
In the D2L editor, click the “Quicklink” icon (often looks like a chain link).
Select the NEW component you want to link to (e.g., “Quizzes,” then select the correct quiz).
Click “Save and Close.”

This forces D2L to generate a new, correct link ID for the current course.

B. How to Fix Broken H5P/Grading Links

H5P activities must be inserted fresh into the new course to establish the grade-passback connection.

Navigate to the Content Module in your new D2L course where you want the H5P to appear.
Click the “Existing Activities” button or the “Upload/Create” button.
Select the “External Learning Tools” option.
Find and click our institution’s H5P tool (e.g., “H5P Interactive Content”). This action starts the LTI “handshake.”
Follow the prompts to either upload the .h5p file or select the content from your H5P library within the new course connection window.

Remember: Inserting the H5P this way is the only action that guarantees D2L will:

Create the active, two-way LTI link to the H5P server.
Automatically create a matching Gradebook item in the new D2L course.