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Download Content

Course content in VIULearn is usually only available for a short time after the course completes. If there is content in your courses that you want to keep for future reference (such as a syllabus with a record of the course content, or a great study guide or article you think you will want to look at later) or if you would prefer to download and read these materials offline, you can download these items from your course with the steps below.

Please Note: the ability to download content from a course does not give you the right to distribute or use this material without permission. If you have questions about content ownership, please see the VIU Library Copyright and Licenses. 

Download a Single File or Page

  1. Go to the course you want to download content from and click Content on the navigation bar.

  2. Navigate to the content topic or file you want to download. 

  3. Click the arrow to the right of the title and choose Download from the menu that appears. 

  4. The file should download immediately. Depending on your computer's settings, the file may open automatically or save to a folder on your computer. 

Download All Available Course Content

  1. Go to the course you want to download content from and click Content on the navigation bar. 

  2. On the left navigation panel, click Table of Contents to go to the root of the course.

  3. Click the Download button. 

  4. A zipped folder containing the content files from the course will be prepared and then begin to download automatically. You may see a loading screen before the download begins. 

  5. Once the folder has downloaded, you will need to extract the files. Mac computers should do this automatically when you click to open the folder. On a Windows computer, right click on the folder and choose Extract All. 

  6. Inside the folder you will find all of the documents and pages from the course content. There will also be a file called Table of Contents.html which you can use to navigate the files you have downloaded. 

Downloading Assignments

You may already have an offline copy of your assignment submissions that were loaded into VIULearn, but if you do not, you can download a copy of any file you have submitted to a VIULearn assignment with the steps below:

To Download Assignments from VIULearn:

  1. Log in to VULearn.

  2. Click on the course you want to download an assignment from. 

  3. Click Assessment and Assignments in the course navigation bar 

  4. For each assignment, you will see a blue number indicating how many submissions were made to that assignment. Click on this number to see your submissions. 

  5. Click on the blue link under Submitted Files to download the file. 

  6. If there are other Assignment Submission Folders you want to download assignments from, you can choose a new folder from the drop down list and click Apply to view your submissions to that folder.