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Canvas is the exclusive LMS (Learning Management System) for the UH main campus.
Blackboard and Canvas organizational structures differ to such an extent that content does not always map seamlessly between the two. Given these differences and the fact that every course is different, you'll have to decide whether to edit the imported content from Blackboard or build your course completely from scratch in Canvas.
The table below provides some tips to hep you decide (Source: Blackboard to Canvas Import Guide | Texas A&M University | Office for Academic Innovation):
Benefits to Building Your Course from Scratch
Benefits to Building Your Course from Scratch
Reduces the amount of time you need to reconfigure a course imported from Blackboard
Allows you to rethink your course layout with new flexibility in organizing content through modules
Allows you to rethink how you will foster student-student, student-instructor and student-content interactions
Clears your path for redesigning Blog and Journal assignments, which are not available in Canvas
Clears your path for redesigning Rubrics, Wikis, and Groups, which work Differently in Canvas
Encourages you to contact your publisher for a Canvas cartridge (Publisher Materials)
Reasons Why Your Imported Course May Be Easy to Edit
Reasons Why Your Imported Course May Be Easy to Edit
If your Course Content area followed the unit/week folder structure using content folders
If your Tests, Surveys, and Pools are text-based (no images as possible answers)
If your course relied heavily on the Assignment and Discussion tools in Blackboard
If your course is free of hidden/duplicated folders, items, and gradebook columns
If you need help choosing a solution for your course, feel free to reach out to us via MS Teams, email, contact us form, or drop by Fleming Room 127.
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