diff --git a/lib/ContentPluginModule.js b/lib/ContentPluginModule.js
index 528f974..f92ac56 100644
--- a/lib/ContentPluginModule.js
+++ b/lib/ContentPluginModule.js
@@ -348,6 +348,148 @@ class ContentPluginModule extends AbstractApiModule {
     return pkg
   }
 
+  /**
+   * Loads JSON data into relevant directories
+   */
+  async writeCourseData () {
+    return Promise.all(Object.keys(this.courseData).map(async (type) => {
+      const { dir, fileName, data } = this.courseData[type]
+      if (data) {
+        const filePath = path.join(dir, fileName)
+        const pathDir = await fs.access(dir).then(() => true).catch(() => false)
+        if (!pathDir) await fs.mkdir(dir, { recursive: true })
+        await fs.writeFile(filePath, JSON.stringify(data, null, 2))
+      }
+    }));
+  }
+
+  /**
+   * Run grunt task
+   * @return {Promise}
+   */
+  runGruntTask (subTask, { outputDir, captureDir, file }) {
+    const args = [
+      'npx grunt migration:' + subTask,
+      outputDir ? `--outputdir=${outputDir}` : '',
+      captureDir ? `--capturedir=${captureDir}` : '',
+      file ? `--file=${file}` : ''
+    ].filter(Boolean).join(' ');
+    return this.execPromise(args);
+  }
+
+  async execPromise (task) {
+    this.log('debug', 'EXEC', task)
+    return new Promise((resolve, reject) => {
+      exec(task, { cwd: this.framework.path }, (error, stdout, stderr) => {
+        if (stdout) this.log('debug', 'EXEC_STDOUT', task, stdout)
+        if (stderr) this.log('debug', 'EXEC_STDERR', task, stderr)
+        error ? reject(error) : resolve(stdout)
+      })
+    })
+  }
+
+  /**
+     * Finds all courses using a plugin, saves data to the course directory and runs grunt:migration capture
+     * @param {String} _id + name of the plugin being updated
+     * @return Returns promise to find/save course data and run grunt:migration capture
+  */
+  async capturePluginCourses (_id, name) {
+    const content = await this.app.waitForModule('content')
+    const courses = await this.getPluginUses(_id)
+    if (!courses.length) return
+
+    await Promise.all(courses.map(async c => {
+      const contentItems = await content.find({ _courseId: c._id })
+      if (!contentItems.length) return
+
+      const outputDir = path.join(this.framework.path, 'src/course', c._id.toString())
+      const courseDir = path.join(outputDir, 'course')
+      const langDir = path.join(courseDir, 'en')
+
+      this.courseData = {
+        course: { dir: langDir, fileName: 'course.json', data: undefined },
+        config: { dir: courseDir, fileName: 'config.json', data: undefined },
+        contentObject: { dir: langDir, fileName: 'contentObjects.json', data: [] },
+        article: { dir: langDir, fileName: 'articles.json', data: [] },
+        block: { dir: langDir, fileName: 'blocks.json', data: [] },
+        component: { dir: langDir, fileName: 'components.json', data: [] }
+      }
+
+      contentItems.forEach(item => {
+        const type = item._type === 'page' || item._type === 'menu' ? 'contentObject' : item._type;
+        if (typeof this.courseData[type].data === 'object') {
+            this.courseData[type].data.push(item);
+          return
+        }
+        this.courseData[type].data = item
+      })
+
+      await this.writeCourseData()
+      const folderName = `${c._id}-migrations`
+      const captureDir = path.join('./', folderName)
+      const opts = { outputDir: outputDir, captureDir: captureDir, file: name }
+
+      this.capturedCourses.push({
+        outputDir: outputDir,
+        captureDir: captureDir,
+        courseDir,
+        courseId: c._id,
+      })
+
+      await this.runGruntTask('capture', opts)
+    }));
+  }
+
+  /**
+   * Takes an array of filePaths and extracts the JSON data from each file
+   * @param {String} filePaths array of file paths to JSON files
+   * @return Returns all course data in an array
+  */
+  async loadJsonData (filePaths) {
+    const data = [];
+    for (const filePath of filePaths) {
+      const content = await fs.readFile(filePath, 'utf8')
+      const data = JSON.parse(content)
+      if (Array.isArray(data)) {
+        data.push(...data)
+      } else {
+        data.push(data)
+      }
+    }
+    return data;
+  }
+
+    /**
+   * Migrates each course within this.capturedCourses
+   * @param {String} _id The _id for the plugin to update and name of the plugin
+   * @return Resolves with logging confirmation
+   */
+  async migratePluginCourses (_id, name) {
+    if (!this.capturedCourses.length) return
+    const content = await this.app.waitForModule('content')
+    await Promise.all(this.capturedCourses.map(async c => {
+      const opts = { outputDir: c.outputDir, captureDir: c.captureDir, file: name }
+      await this.runGruntTask('migrate', opts)
+
+      const filePaths = Array.from(await new Promise(resolve => {
+        globs([
+          '**/*.json',
+          '*.json'
+        ], { cwd: path.join(c.outputDir, 'course'), absolute: true }, (err, files) => resolve(err ? null : files))
+      })).filter((file, index, self) => self.indexOf(file) === index)
+      const contentItems = await this.loadJsonData(filePaths);
+
+      contentItems.forEach(async item => {
+        await content.update({ _id: item._id }, item)
+      });
+
+      const captureDir = path.join(this.framework.path, c.captureDir)
+      await fs.rm(c.outputDir, { recursive: true, force: true })
+      await fs.rm(captureDir, { recursive: true, force: true })
+      return this.log('info', `successfully updated course ${c.courseId} with plugin ${name}`)
+    }));
+  }
+
   /**
    * Updates a single plugin
    * @param {String} _id The _id for the plugin to update
@@ -355,8 +497,10 @@ class ContentPluginModule extends AbstractApiModule {
    */
   async updatePlugin (_id) {
     const [{ name }] = await this.find({ _id })
+    await this.capturePluginCourses(_id, name)
     const [pluginData] = await this.framework.runCliCommand({ plugins: [name] })
     const p = await this.update({ name }, pluginData._sourceInfo)
+    await this.migratePluginCourses(_id, name)
     this.log('info', `successfully updated plugin ${p.name}@${p.version}`)
     return p
   }