On Jan 18th, 2017 there was a Sakai Users Roundtable  web conference session.  During the session kimhwrth​ of Stanford shared the following resources:Canvas Course Profiles - a collection highlighting faculty exemplary use of Canvas to enhance teach...

hiWe are new to all this, but we're really excited to be here. Any help would be great.I know you guys have touched on this a couple of times before, but i want to get specific.We are moving from Bb9.1. In an ideal world we would just like to leave a...

We are a state University that is migrating from Sakai to Canvas. Our Registrar's office is working on new data feeds from our PeopleSoft system to Canvas. They would like to connect with other PeopleSoft schools that have completed the SIS integrati...

Hello I come from a D2L School and we are transitioning to Canvas.  One of the instructors that I am working with has a course in Etudes that they would like to transfer over to Canvas.  I re-call seeing information about the migration tool, but curr...

When importing a course from Moodle into Canvas, for some reason none of the quizzes are importing as a "Practice Quiz" instead of a "Graded Quiz." Why does that happen and can I change it? Also, the grade book is not set up in the categories that I ...

Hi, community,Really need your guidance!Thanks to  @kona ​, who alerted me to this group!I have 400 multiple choice questions in my Blackboard Introduction to Logic course, and I created a Bb export zip file for import into Canvas (which we're all us...

I'm not sure if this is a question or a discussion topic, please move as you see fit Hi! We are in the mist preparing for the Fall pilot of Canvas at our university. We are pushing for a majority-on, launch for the Spring '17 semester.With that said,...

Messy, yeh, that's the word I'd use for both the TITLE of this document and end result of the Bb-to-Canvas import process.I helped manage our BbLearn to Canvas migration two years ago and it was indeed a messy splattering of perfectly posed content f...

We are transitioning from BB to Canvas.  My recorded lectures have been imported, but I cannot get them to play.  I used Hughes Presenter to narrate my powerpoints when recording my lectures.  The problem seems to be the "start.html" file, which I us...

How do I place exported Angel  old courses into my Canvas sandbox?

Has anyone been successful in exporting a rubric from Blackboard and importing it into Canvas? If so, would you share your steps/process?Many thanks,Rosie

Hi All!I have successfully migrated materials from Etudes with exception of the modules.  It seems the entire modules file will not successfully migrate.  When I upload it it in pieces, one section loads in but then the next then replaces the first l...

Hi All,With moving from D2L to Canvas, we've seen some issues with quizzes moving from D2L to Canvas.  Has anyone tried running the quizzes through Respondus 4.0 (or other exam software) and then uploading them to Canvas? Thanks!-Dave

If you update a grade in the "other" software and push it back to Canvas, is there any record of the change being made (i.e., "paper trail" - Jane Smith changed this grade from 9/10 to 10/10 on 4/25/16), or does it just update the grade? I know when ...

Hello,  I was wondering how others have handled transferring Blackboard Assessments that use the Calculated Formula/Math Editor. The assessment is not coming across to Canvas appropriately.  Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated!  Kari

When I first imported a Moodle Course into Canvas the Books came over as pages in the Modules.  When I do it now, the pages of the books end up elsewhere.Is there a way to require that the pages from a Moodle book import into the Canvas modules?Thank...

Another question has popped up with our transition! I hope you can help! How did your institution go about finalizing SafeAssign? Instructors are wanting to save reports for their records so that they are aware of plagiarism  or if it was submitted  ...

My institution is in the process of setting up a Canvas Pilot for a small group. Currently we use Moodle as our LMS and have for many years. Can people share with me any insights as to getting faculty on-board, migrating content, training, and differ...

Hello,  My university is coming up on the great transition from Blackboard to Canvas in the Summer. I have a few questions on users that have done this transition:  1. Did you do a mass export of Blackboard Courses into Canvas?  If so, what did the p...

All registered Canvas User Engagement group members can "Edit" this doc and share their ideas!IMPORTANT: This is a collaborative doc so let's work together to keep this polished, full of fresh new ideas, and void of duplicates Follow these instructi...

I'm brand new in the community and new to Canvas. We are running a pilot this spring where a few dozen faculty will be using Canvas instead of Blackboard. I'm the lone trainer at our campus for LMS systems.Would anyone be kind enough who has been to ...

We are running a pilot of Canvas and currently use Blackboard.I've tried to come up with the easiest method of moving content from the Blackboard system to Canvas for those who don't want to start from scratch.From what I've experienced, I created so...

Greetings, We are looking for advice from schools who have migrated from Blackboard.  How have you handled archiving courses for future accreditation reports?  Since Canvas does not import student grades or submissions from archive files, and it is h...

Tried importing various Bb 9 archive files into Canvas over the past few months, and all but one of them has failed to import.  The importation times out, regardless of my browser or connection.  The one exception produced an import that was virtuall...

It's important to decide whether you want to build your courses from scratch or if you want to import all of your content from Angel.  In most cases all course content in Angel does copy over into Canvas, but will need some tweaking. Benefits of movi...

It's been a few years since we needed to deal with this, but at the time I felt the need to improve on the built-in Blackboard import into Canvas. I tried to replicate the structure of the original course in Blackboard in a new course in Canvas as cl...

Moving from BB to Canvas, but some of our courses have content that links back out to BB- anyone know any utility that replaces all the BB URL links in courses? thanksLooking for a super script that can replace all BB URLs with new Canvas url....

Just over one year ago, we made a transitions from Pearson eCollege's LearningStudio LMS to Canvas.  Here is a chart that we put together a while back for our faculty to help them understand the differences between the two platform.  The last version...

I've been downloading and re-creating online classes in Canvas from our old Moodle site, and for some reason, the assignments--anything that requires an upload--don't appear in the new Canvas classes. I can't figure it out. There's an "Imported Assig...

Getting ready to leave? Consider migrating vs. rebuilding If you decide to migrate:Clean out any unwanted or hidden file/materialsIf you use LORs (repositories) make content is copied, not linkedRename content to unit/module specific conventionMove n...