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New Gradebook or Not New Gradebook
With the upcoming New Gradebook: Tentative Q3 2019 transition date feedback is it wise to turn on the New Gradebook that is in Beta for all of those doing the pilot? My institution is piloting Canvas Spring 2019 and looking at a Fall 2019 full conversion. Any ideas are welcomed. Robert McDole
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Migrate course rooms from Fronter to Canvas
We have to migrate course rooms from Fronter to Canvas. The Fronter "Archive" i.e. all structured data of every Fronter room should be migrated as a whole package into Canvas. Does anybody have experience with this kind of migration?
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BB Course Clean Up Instructions Prior to Canvas Migration?
Hi All, Our university, Tarleton State U in Texas, is moving to Canvas from BB in Fall 2019. I'm looking for any resources anyone might have concerning what you should tell faculty (instructions) on cleaning up BB files prior to a migration into Canvas. We are emphasizing a 'fresh start' option, but well, most faculty will…
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Bug?: Bad equation rendering in feedback of Blackboard created quizes
Hi, I have a question about rendering equations in the comments/feedback section of questions migrated from Blackboard. 1 When opening quizz-questions originally created in Blackboard in Canvas gives perfect results, but things go wrong when it is saved within the system and the exercise is opened again, or employed in a…
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Bad feedback-rendering of Blackboard created quizes
I am an assistant professor at the University of Amsterdam. We recently (August 2018) moved from Blackboard to Canvas. In Blackboard we used weekly tests to monitor our students on their statistics skills. We migrated our item banks from Blackboard to Canvas and questions work mostly okay, except for displaying "rich"…
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Preparing Your Canvas: Coda
This is the tenth entry in my Preparing Your Canvas series, documenting NKU's transition from Blackboard to Canvas. If you want to start from the beginning, here's the rest in chronological order: * Preparing Your Canvas: Starting a new LMS * Preparing Your Canvas: In the Trenches * Preparing Your Canvas: Round Two...…
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What content types in Blackboard don't work in Canvas?
We will be moving from Blackboard 9.1 to Canvas over the next 18+ months. In the meantime, we have a professor who needs to create new course sites. He wants to know what Blackboard content types/tools to stay away from so that his course can be successfully migrated to Canvas. My thought is that he definitely create his…
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Preparing Your Canvas: The Feather of Truth
This is the ninth entry in my Preparing Your Canvas series, documenting NKU's transition from Blackboard to Canvas. If you want to start from the beginning, here's the rest in chronological order: * Preparing Your Canvas: Starting a new LMS * Preparing Your Canvas: In the Trenches * Preparing Your Canvas: Round Two...…
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Powerschool LMS import
Can a Powerschool LMS course be imported into Canvas? Thanks
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Importing Canvas cartridges into other LMS?
We developed 30 OER-enabled Canvas sample course shells that are WCAUG 2.0 accessible and are aligned with effective online teaching & learning strategies. 29 of the shells have OpenStax OER textbooks embedded in them. The 30th shell allows for any textbook to be embedded. Faculty across the country who use Blackboard,…
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Kaltura Media and the Old LMS > New LMS
Hello all, I'm just curious if anyone in the group has worked on migrating courses that rely heavily on Kaltura media to Canvas. It doesn't appear to be something that a standard export/import job can handle. If you've transferred courses with Kaltura media from one system to Canvas - what approach did you take? Any…
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Blackboard Organizations = Canvas ______ ?
Hi all, I could't tell if this was asked here already, but please forgive any redundancy. In Blackboard, we have a wide use of Organizations (Basically shells which are not associated with courses or enrollments in the SIS). These are used for study groups, video repositories, faculty groups, clubs, etc. So the question…
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Preparing Your Canvas: Signs and Wonders
This is the eighth entry in my Preparing Your Canvas series, documenting NKU's transition from Blackboard to Canvas. If you want to start from the beginning, here's the rest in chronological order: * Preparing Your Canvas: Starting a new LMS * Preparing Your Canvas: In the Trenches * Preparing Your Canvas: Round Two...…
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Student Submission / Grade Retrieval from the Previous LMS
Hi All, After migrating from a cloud hosted LMS to Canvas, the day comes where your previous LMS licence expires. A few months after the expiration date, the Dean calls. A student is asking for their thesis paper, which they uploaded to the previous LMS two semesters ago. Another is contesting their grade because they…
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Student Assignment Submissions in Blackboard Archives
Hello! During our transition from Blackboard to Canvas we were trying to determine where we would find the archived student submissions for reference should we need them. I was given access to files sent by Blackboard and I was able to find the directories with all of the individual student assignment submission documents.…