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.
The best way around this is to use the select content option when importing and then deselect the Course Tools that are redundant in Canvas. I myself have benefited from using a bionic reading app on my phone and think it would be useful to students and instructors. The documentation only mentions drag and drop being available for empty modules (which is silly). Yes, choosing only the active quizzes and question banks is the best method if I import an individual course. That is, if I deselect Quizzes and Question Banks and then only select the quizzes and question banks that are active? I couldn’t find an option to import specific content as you suggest when importing the Blackboard zipped export file.
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 course over to find that they unknowingly had 200+ empty categories which created 200+ empty Assignment Groups in Barclays Casino 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.
