Pasting content from a workgroup directly into a collection

Let's say you have about a hundred modules sitting in your personal workspace (or maybe a Workgroup) and you're itching to compile them into one crowning achievement. Maybe you're building your personal memoirs to share with friends and print-on-demand. Maybe you're writing a textbook on marine biology. Whatever your motivation, you've already created these modules and you'd like to package them inside a Connexions collection.

This would be a monumentally boring and time-consuming task if you were to add each module individually (Believe me: Both Jonathan and I have taken this soul-crushing route when creating collections in the past). However, someone finally clued us in that you can copy and paste PUBLISHED modules directly from your workgroup into a collection.

From your personal workspace or workgroup, check all of the boxes next to the PUBLISHED modules you would like to add to your collection. Find the blue "Copy" button located at the bottom of the list of modules. Press it. I'm not a developer so I can't expound on the technical details, but I believe that the module "pointers" are copied into a strange cyber-void that only our Systems Architect fully understands. Now, create a new collection or go to the collection composer page for the collection you wish to populate. Click the folder you wish to insert the modules into and press the blue "Paste" button.

Viola! All of those modules are now in your collection, ready to be organized, retitled, or shuffled to your heart's content.

You'll notice I used the word "PUBLISHED" up there in my explanation-- that's because you cannot insert unpublished modules into a collection. Please make sure you publish your modules before trying to add them to a collection.