KlickCourse

Moving a course — export, import, transfer

Download a course as a file, import one back, or hand it to another institute. Only a transfer carries video.

Start here: video only travels one of the two ways

There are two ways to move a course, and the difference is video.
  • A transfer link stays inside KlickCourse, so videos come with it. Use this when you are handing a course to another institute.
  • A file (.kcourse.zip) can go anywhere — a backup drive, a colleague, an archive — but it cannot carry video.

That is a real limit, not a setting: your lesson videos are stored so that only enrolled students can play them, which means there is no downloadable video file to put in a ZIP. Everything else — lessons, text, images, worksheets, quizzes, certificates — travels either way.

Export a course to a file

In Admin → Course Builder, use the download icon on a course row. Before anything downloads you get a summary of what will and will not travel, naming each video individually. Press Download and you get your-course-2026-08-10.kcourse.zip.

It works on drafts as well as published courses, and it changes nothing — your course stays exactly where it was.

Import a file

On the same page, Import a course → Choose file. It always creates a new draft — it never overwrites a course you already have, and nothing goes live until you publish it.

Afterwards you get a report: what arrived, and anything that did not. If the course’s web address is already taken here, the import adds a number to it rather than refusing.

Transfer a course to another institute

Use the transfer icon on the course row. You get a link to send to the person who should receive the course. When they open it and accept, the course — including its videos — appears in their institute as a draft.

Your copy stays put. A transfer is a copy, not a move, and the videos are copied too rather than shared: deleting a video here can never break their course.

The link opens at their address, not yours. When you create it we ask who is receiving it, so the link comes out ready to send. If you skip that, the link has a {institute} placeholder you must replace first. Open one at your own address by mistake and nothing is used up — that page offers to take you to the right one.

The receiving person needs to be signed in as an admin of the institute that should get the course. If they are not signed in, the link asks them to.

Treat both like a password

  • The file contains your quiz answer keys. Anyone who opens it can read every correct answer. It is as sensitive as the course itself.
  • A transfer link works for whoever holds it. Anyone with the link can claim the course, so send it the way you would send a password — and only to the person you mean.
  • A link works once. You choose how long it lasts when you create it — 3 hours, 24 hours (the default) or 7 days. Once used, it is dead.
  • Sent one to the wrong person? Cancel it. The transfer box lists every link you have made for that course and what became of it, with a Cancel next to any that is still live. Cancelling kills it instantly. A link that has already been claimed cannot be cancelled — the other institute has its own copy by then, and that is theirs.
  • The link is shown to you once. It is not stored anywhere you can read it back, so if you close the box without copying it, cancel it in the list and create another.

What does not travel — either way

A course arrives somewhere else as a template, not as a running business:
  • Price — it arrives free. Set your own before publishing.
  • Students, progress, quiz attempts and certificates — those belong to the institute they happened in.
  • Discount codes, payment and CRM connections, and any credit settings.
  • Published state — it is always a draft, so nothing appears in a catalog until someone decides it should.
  • Reviews and analytics.

The catalog section does travel, by name — if you have a section with that name it files itself there, and if you do not, one is created.