Direct Share: Share Your Course Content with Other Instructors

Sharing Content Between Courses

Canvas Direct Share allows instructors to easily share content between users and courses without using the Commons. These features help you quickly copy or share specific items with colleagues or reuse content in your other courses.

Direct Share Documentation

The following resources explain how to use Canvas Direct Share features:

• Send content to another Canvas user Links to an external site. - Learn how to share assignments, discussions, pages, and quizzes directly with colleagues.
• Copy content to another course Links to an external site. - Discover how to copy specific items to your other Canvas courses.
• How to see content shared with me Links to an external site. - Find out where to access content that others have shared with you.

Benefits of Direct Share

• Efficiency: Share individual items without importing an entire course
• Collaboration: Easily share content with colleagues teaching similar courses
• Consistency: Maintain standardized content across multiple sections
• Time-saving: Quickly reuse your best content in new courses

Direct Share is available for Assignments, Quizzes, Pages, Discussions, and Modules. To access these features, look for the options menu (three dots) next to any supported content item.