I am attempting to import a large question library that has been exported from a D2L course into Canvas. I am not having any luck. It simply will not import the quizzes or the library of questions. I don't have issues with importing all quizzes just ...

From Vision to Victory: The Instructure Adoption Success Toolkit Just in time for Back to School, we're excited to share some awesome news! For years, educational leaders have used the Canvas Success Model to support and improve the use of Canvas L...

Greetings - for those of you that have migrated from Blackboard to Canvas:Do you have an estimate on how many hours per course it took you to migrate online courses?  I am talking about from course import to completed rearranging of course and making...

Hello, I have tried to integrate Microsoft teams in canvas without success for a couple of days now.  Having in mind my Microsoft Account has the global admin role How can I do it? Kindly help it's urgent. Another quiz is Microsoft team's integrable ...

We have SSO set up and use SIS ID as a unique identifier, I'd like to import a list of users that may or may not exist in Canvas and have only the new users get created. The existing users should be left alone/unchanged. The new users should be able ...

Hi everyone,I've been looking into options for moving Open edX courses over to the Canvas platform and was wondering:It looks like there are no officially supported, publicly available migration scripts or strategies for moving courses from Open edX ...

Hi, we're currently evaluating our LMS (Blackboard). I'd like to know what the main factors were when you decided to adopt Canvas. If this is the wrong place to ask this, please let me know.Thanks.John B.

Hello!I have developed a course in Sakai and my university is moving over to Canvas. I've download the file to import the Lessons Builder files into Canvas and have only received errors. It failed 4 times. Any clue how this can be resolved?

Hello,My school is just starting to implement Canvas and I have been looking into how different activities from Moodle come into Canvas when imported. Images within quiz questions go into the course files area when a course from Moodle is imported in...

How can I link Canvas to LearnSmart Assignments on McGraw-Hill Connect so that Students can view their individual progress from the Canvas Site?

Hello everyone!I've been reading world trends and there has been a huge growth in the use of Mobile as apps.We conduct research at our university and note that it is totally the reverse of the trend.Our students prefer to use a laptop, and at home to...

We're currently in the process of testing migration/clean-up strategies from Moodle to Canvas and we're having an  issue importing quizzes.When we've done tests importing Moodle back-ups containing quizzes into Canvas Free for Teacher courses they im...

We are in the process of determining how we are going to bring over our Blackboard courses to Canvas. In our discussion someone asked how many semesters of Blackboard courses we should bring over to Canvas. What would be a typical number?Also, do you...

Hello,I am a new member of the community. I am interesting in migration strategies from a perspective of project management, in particular addressing these three key points:Migrating coursesTraining staff members (academics, administrators and studen...

Hi, just wondering what approach ex Blackboard users have taken when transitioning to Canvas?The options for and implications of decommissioning BlackboardWhere the data should remain accessible for legislative reasons and for Teaching and Learning o...

Hi all,Just wondering if anyone has/knows of a Blackboard to Canvas migration checklist?I am looking into some of the aspects for my institution and was looking for such a document, but could contribute to a collaborative one here.I have seen the ver...

Hi all,I am testing some courses to export from Blackboard and import into Canvas.I keep getting the mysterious error displayed below.I am working through different modules to try and figure out what is causing the problem and so far think it is the ...

Why can't my students see the contents of the units

I have a teacher that is currently on Google Classroom and is needing to migrate to Canvas. Has anyone done this? What tips do you have? Do you have a plan or procedure for doing this?

Hi all,I am on week 2 of a new job where I am tasked with running the pilot program for Canvas. I have used Canvas at a previous institution for a number of years and am fairly comfortable with the benefits. I have not used Blackboard, however, as my...

We’re looking at conditionally hiding a link on our canvas course page based on a user id. I have already programmed a mapping in our database so we know which canvas users are which in our own database, and can use this canvas id to conditionally hi...

I'm in the beginning stages of creating a high school library Canvas page.  All my students will be enrolled.  I would love to see some examples of what others have done for inspiration.  I know there is so much that could be done here, I just don't ...

Hello fellow Admins:We have a bit of a conundrum with our Canvas/Kaltura integration - particularly with SIS IDs.Our users' SIS IDs changed from a unique alphanumeric "username" to a new 9-digit ID number. Doing so made it easier for us to manage use...

Any schools using Workday for their ERP - Student Information System?

I want to migrate my canvas courses and students from one canvas instance installed in AWS (under a sub-account) to a new canvas instance installed in AWS too. What should I have to do? 

I've used WebCT, Moodle and Blackboard. In those LMSes I've been able to upload my course files using webdav or ftp. Can I do the same with Canvas?

What's the equivalent of Adaptive release in Blackboard?

Dear Faculty,My name is Ayse Begum Aslan and I am a PhD Candidate at Wayne State University.I would like to invite you to participate in an online survey about faculty acceptance of learning management systems in higher education. It will take approx...

This is the eleventh (and final!) post 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 ...

Hi,I got a script that will migrate content from one course to 1000 new courses.In 1 our of 30 I get this strange error when I look into the process:id : 348context_id : 412context_type : Useruser_id : 412tag : sync_to_s3_and_save_to_shared_brand_con...