Course Migration from Blackboard to Canvas

[ystan001]

Hello all,

Our schools are in the process of migrating courses from Blackboard 9.1+ version to Canvas. Which of the following version of Common Cartridge would you recommend to use for course migration?

• Export as Common Cartridge 1.2
• Export as Common Cartridge 1.1
• Export as Common Cartridge 1.0

Appreciate your kind feedback and advise on this.

Sincerely,

Jonathan

[Chris_Hofer]

Also sharing this with the LMS & Migrations​ group here in the Community so that your question can get some more exposure,  @ystan001 ​.

[shane_ohara]

I would recommend that you EXPORT the course content from Blackboard and import to Canvas using the "Bb 6/7/8/9 export .zip file" option. Having migrated from Bb to Canvas over the past 18 months, we did not use course cartridge functionality. All of our migrations went fairly smooth using this method.

Shane

[tracy_stuntz]

This is also what we're doing!

[bgibson]

canvas-contrib/API_Examples/bulk_migration/PowerShell at master · kajigga/canvas-contrib · GitHub

Fortunately, our institution negotiated a contract where a large number of our Blackboard 9.x courses were migrated by Instructure.  But, before that, I was thinking that I would have to use the API to migrate the Bb archives myself. I found the above PowerShell scripts and managed to figure out how to modify them to migrate about 1,400 Bb archives.  I was neither an API or PowerShell guru, and could not have coded the scripts from scratch.  Not knowing the language, it took a while to figure out that there were a few small scripting errors, that once corrected, made the scripts work fine. 

[Robbie_Grant]

 @ystan001 ,

We are giving the Instructional Designers area a little bit of love and just want to check in with you.  This will also bring this question new attention. 

Were you able to find an answer to your question? I am going to go ahead and mark this question as answered because there hasn't been any more activity in a while so I assume that you have the information that you need. If you still have a question about this or if you have information that you would like to share with the community, by all means, please do come back and leave a comment.  Also, if this question has been answered by one of the previous replies, please feel free to mark that answer as correct.

Robbie