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I am attempting to import a large question library that has been exported from a D2L course into Canvas. I am not having any luck. It simply will not import the quizzes or the library of questions. I don't have issues with importing all quizzes just the ones using question libraries from D2L. Anyone run into this issue and…
From Vision to Victory: The Instructure Adoption Success Toolkit Just in time for Back to School, we're excited to share some awesome news! For years, educational leaders have used the Canvas Success Model to support and improve the use of Canvas LMS for their communities. It’s been a game-changer for educational leaders…
Greetings - for those of you that have migrated from Blackboard to Canvas: Do you have an estimate on how many hours per course it took you to migrate online courses? I am talking about from course import to completed rearranging of course and making it ready to go. Note that we with be using DesignToolsPLUS from CIDI labs…
Hello, I have tried to integrate Microsoft teams in canvas without success for a couple of days now. Having in mind my Microsoft Account has the global admin role How can I do it? Kindly help it's urgent. Another quiz is Microsoft team's integrable in open-source codes. Below I have attached the error am getting upon…
We have SSO set up and use SIS ID as a unique identifier, I'd like to import a list of users that may or may not exist in Canvas and have only the new users get created. The existing users should be left alone/unchanged. The new users should be able to log in via SSO and access the account the import created. Make sense or…
Hi everyone, I've been looking into options for moving Open edX courses over to the Canvas platform and was wondering: * It looks like there are no officially supported, publicly available migration scripts or strategies for moving courses from Open edX to Canvas. Is that correct? * The Canvas FAQ mention "Migration tools…
Hi, we're currently evaluating our LMS (Blackboard). I'd like to know what the main factors were when you decided to adopt Canvas. If this is the wrong place to ask this, please let me know. Thanks. John B.
Hello! I have developed a course in Sakai and my university is moving over to Canvas. I've download the file to import the Lessons Builder files into Canvas and have only received errors. It failed 4 times. Any clue how this can be resolved?
Hello, My school is just starting to implement Canvas and I have been looking into how different activities from Moodle come into Canvas when imported. Images within quiz questions go into the course files area when a course from Moodle is imported into a course in Canvas. This can of course be problematic, in many cases…
How can I link Canvas to LearnSmart Assignments on McGraw-Hill Connect so that Students can view their individual progress from the Canvas Site?
Hello everyone! I've been reading world trends and there has been a huge growth in the use of Mobile as apps. We conduct research at our university and note that it is totally the reverse of the trend. Our students prefer to use a laptop, and at home to study, than their smartphone and the Canvas Student app. This was very…
We're currently in the process of testing migration/clean-up strategies from Moodle to Canvas and we're having an issue importing quizzes. When we've done tests importing Moodle back-ups containing quizzes into Canvas Free for Teacher courses they import successfully. When we try to import quizzes into our full version of…
We are in the process of determining how we are going to bring over our Blackboard courses to Canvas. In our discussion someone asked how many semesters of Blackboard courses we should bring over to Canvas. What would be a typical number? Also, do you keep all of the archives from your previous LMS? We have a good 14 years…
Hello, I am a new member of the community. I am interesting in migration strategies from a perspective of project management, in particular addressing these three key points: * Migrating courses * Training staff members (academics, administrators and students)> * Integrating Canvas with other management information…
Hi, just wondering what approach ex Blackboard users have taken when transitioning to Canvas? * The options for and implications of decommissioning Blackboard * Where the data should remain accessible for legislative reasons and for Teaching and Learning or related enquiry reasons * The level of granularity of data…