SIS and XML

[guilera]

SIS XML to Canvas

We are moving from Blackboard to Canvas as well as moving to new ERP Workday. With limited resources from IT - they are wanting to use the same feed structure - XML files not CSV. Is this possible?

[jsavage2]

Hi Anne,

I'm sharing this with Canvas Developers.‌

The short answer, though, is "not really": Canvas does support the IMS Enterprise Specification XML format for SIS import, but it is not well documented and even within a specification, there are nuances and shades of adherence. A blackboard snapshot file will not likely import to Canvas cleanly "out of the box." 

Blackboard and Canvas consume information in different ways. The expectation that an institution could change both the LMS and the ERP but keep the feed workflow as-is is, on the face of it, unreasonable. 

[guilera]

What files types are you using to send SIS info to Canvas?