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We found most issues in schools where the instructors had high levels of autonomy, and migrated over without knowing the consequence of foregoing the Select Content tool. I've seen some instructors migrate a Barclays Slots course over to find that they unknowingly had 200+ empty categories which created 200+ empty Assignment Groups in Canvas. This one depends on how you choose to export content from Blackboard, but you will likely have all web links created using the web link function in BB assigned to an arbitrary link. You will instead need to assign 'Pre-requisites' for specific modules to permit students to view the content. Is there a way to drop files into a module after you've reloaded the page? When I first create a new module in Canvas there is a great drop-target to upload files.
Some schools have Instructional Designers and technologists on staff who oversaw the process on behalf of the instructors. The Canvas assignments page will not load fully, and actually crash. This isn't too big of a deal for teachers and students in Bb. This is because group names from BB will be imported into Canvas simply as 'Pages' with the same name yet without the functionality of a group. Images used for feedback will need to be downloaded manually from BB and uploaded to a relevant place in Canvas.
However, we're going to do a bulk migration at Heriot-Watt University so the approach is likely to be quite different as a result. Did you mean that you would deselect individual quizzes? The list will be really helpful for us as we at Heriot-Watt University are thinking about all the issues in regard to Blackboard to Canvas migration. We are getting ready to migrate courses from Blackboard to Canvas. We will being migration early next year and thanks for the information to date as we look forward to your updates! While other schools have instructors with high levels of autonomy.
I know Canvas didn't have the "multiple answer" type questions a few years ago, but now that they do, is there a way to import "jumbled sentences" from blackboard to Canvas? I think you are right, choosing only the active quizzes and question banks is likely the way to go. That's why Canvas's Select Content function is so important during the migration. However, it's a big deal if migrated over to Canvas—because they come over as Assignment Groups.
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