Introducing Copy & Paste for Course Components! (Quince)
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The Open edX Product Team is thrilled to announce the launch of a new Copy &
Paste feature for course authors!

Copy & Paste will make it easier for authors to reuse different parts of the
course and reduce the time it takes to create course content. 

The Copy & Paste feature lets course authors copy components from the course
outline to a clipboard. Once copied to the clipboard, the component can be
reused, either in the same course or in a different course. 

Authors can copy a component by clicking the triple dot menu at the top of the
component editing window and selecting :guilabel:`Copy to Clipboard`:

   .. image:: /_images/release_notes/quince/copy_paste_a1.png

When authoring a new unit, an option to :guilabel:`Paste Component` appears:

   .. image:: /_images/release_notes/quince/copy_paste_a2.png


In the first release, the Copy & Paste can be used at the component level of the
course outline. This includes text blocks, problem blocks and video blocks. In
future releases, the feature will be expanded to include units, subsections and
sections of the course outline.

Here's a video demo that illustrates how the new feature can be used.

.. youtube:: pJ_uJ4WF_wY

And see the How-To guide on :doc:`/educators/how-tos/copy_paste_course_components`.

Copy & Paste has been added to the current working version of the platform (the
“master branch”), and will be available in the Quince Community Release in
December 2023. 








**Maintenance chart**

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| Review Date  | Working Group Reviewer        |   Release      |Test situation                                     |
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|2025-04-28    | Docs WG                       | Teak           | Deprecated: This is no longer the current release |
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