BB Course Clean Up Instructions Prior to Canvas Migration?

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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 just say move my courses thinking there will be no issues.

Thanks in advance!

Doug Hanna
Tarleton State University
Stephenville, TX

rmthomas

Hi Doug,

For what it's worth, I can tell you what we did when we moved from Bb to Canvas last May 2018. We chose to have faculty move their own content over to Canvas. We let them know they could move everything, somethings, or nothing. They could copy and paste stuff from Bb to Canvas, but we put the responsibility on them. We did provide tips such as not importing wikis, blogs, etc. We did make ourselves available for help and we offered training sessions, workshops, and drop in hours for help in a lab. The one big benefit by doing it this way was by making it their responsibility. I think it helped get many of the faculty to analyze what they absolutely needed. Many of the faculty said it was the push they needed to really clean up their courses. It was something they wanted to do, but kept putting off. This kept them from putting it off any longer.