September 6 Update - Instructure Call: Kickoff Call with Instructure. Presentation Slide Deck and Zoom Recording (See ITAS for Passcode)
August/September - Internal Team: Working with K16, Inc. regarding course migration. Comparing/contrasting quality options against traditional migration.
August/September - Internal Team: Project plan initiated in ClickUp.
September 14 Update - Instructure Call: Scope call with Instructure. Presentation Slide Deck. (WSU Internal Faculty and Staff Access Only)
September 15 Update - Internal Team: Scope call with IT and ITAS to determine authentication protocol. We plan to use Microsoft Azure (OAuth) as primary and CAS as secondary. Local Canvas authentication for selective access.
September 15 Update - Internal Team: K16 migration contract signed. This will involve migrating 1,000 Master and Template courses from Blackboard to Canvas in two waves. Academic leadership is reviewing a spreadsheet of legacy Masters and Templates to determine which will migrate.
August/September Update - Internal Team/K16: Working with K16 to determine migration QA for courses.
September 19 Update - Internal Team: Determining Group 1 Training Schedule.
September 26 Update - Internal Team: Still collecting feedback from departments regarding which Masters and Templates will migrate.
September 26th - Instructure Call: Topics: Authentication, roles and permissions.
September 26th Update - Internal Team: Microsoft Azure/OAuth login on production is functional. Awaiting CAS fail-over.
MILESTONE 1 - Production System Launched and Authentication Successful
September 28 Update - Instructure Call: Meeting with Instructure to discuss data provisioning.
October - Internal Team: Create Roles and Permission Blocks.
October - Internal Team: Create course template.
October - Internal Team & Instructure: Working with Instructure regarding Training Resources (Deep Dive).
October - Internal Team & Instructure: Working with Instructure regarding Blueprints (Deep Dive).
October - Internal Team & Instructure: Working with Instructure and IT regarding data provisioning (Deep Dive).
October - Internal Team: Azure authentication added to Canvas Beta Instance.
MILESTONE 2 - SFTP Server Connection between WSUTech and Instructure Created and Validated
October - Internal Team: CanDO (Development and Optimization) initiated. 16 faculty volunteered to serve as liaisons.
October - Internal Team and Instructure: Training Program in development for Group 1. Scheduled events on the calendars.
October - Internal Team: Reviewing data extract files from Banner. Will conduct a test upload with ten courses.
October - Internal Team: Investigating Grade Passback solution provided by Instructure. Documentation forwarded to IT.
October - Internal Team: Waiting on Canvas Test Server Instance to reset for Azure authentication to be applied. (October 16).
October - Internal Team and K16: First batch of 15 courses will be loaded into our system (October 16). This is a test run for validity.
October - Internal Team: Deadline for CSV extract verification and Roles/Permissions block is Monday, October 16.
October - Internal Team: Template being finalized. Template shared with ALT.
October - Internal Team: Data mapping completed. Information sent to IT.
October - Internal Team & Instructure: Three support email addresses created. These will be added to our Canvas instance and shared with Instructure for access to their support console. WSU Tech purchased 24/7/365 support - the top tier support package.
October - Internal Team: Exploring whitelisting apps listed in the Canvas EduAppCenter.
October - Internal Team: Roles and Permissions 90% complete.
October - Internal Team: Canvas Clinics kicked off.
October - Internal Team: Outcomes requested by Shelby have been added to the Template.
October - Internal Team & Instructure: Discussing grade passback options with IT Dev/Ops. There are four options we are considering. Meeting set with JCCC to discuss their process.
October - Internal Team: Exploring custom JavaScript to disable course content import and lock down sidebar.
October - Internal Team: Beginning to create Course Admin Account Roles.
October - Internal Team: Banner load times tentatively set.
October - Instructure: Tier 1 Support not yet in place, but will be soon. Log into the Support Console successful.
October - Internal Team: Blueprint Course process initiated.
October - Internal Team: Manual feed files successful in Beta.
October - Internal Team & K16: Iteration 3 courses being reviewed and modifications made. Template and Rubrics/Outcomes have been applied. Blackboard Masters and templates: final changes. Meeting with them on 10-26 to discuss.
October - Internal Team & Instructure: They will provide us an LTI tool for data import error logging.
MILESTONE 3 - Data feeds from Banner Arriving in Canvas
November - Instructure: Tier I Canvas Support will begin on or around December 1. Defining knowledge base articles.
November - Internal Team: Group 1 K16 courses (191) have been fed into Canvas. Validating courses. Calendar date for Group 2 determined.
November - Internal Team: Canvas Clinics continuing. Group 1 training launching.
November - Internal Team: Still determining Roles and Permissions block.
November - Internal Team: Discussions regarding grade passback options from Canvas to Banner. Met with JCCC.
November - Internal Team: Further tuning of Canvas options and features.
November - Internal Team: CanDO initiation.
November - Internal Team: Canvas Clinics and Student Experience
November - Internal Team: Blueprint methodology.
November - Internal Team: Working through 206 courses in Group 1 uploaded by K16: correcting broken images and broken file links that resided in Blackboard Content Collection; correcting course formatting issues; correcting incorrect verbiage; removing any resident course dates; validating all course hyperlinks. SLO assessment rubrics loaded into every course.
December - Internal Team: Group 1 courses are now undergoing the third and final quality check to ensure formatting and accessibility issues have been corrected.
MILESTONE 4 - Group 1 Courses QA Checked and Ready for Spring Term
December - Internal Team: Blueprint training is commencing with Program Directors.
December - Internal Team: Group 1 courses have been converted into Blueprints.
December - Internal Team & Instructure: Canvas Mobile instance has been established. Enter wsu tech to search for institution using either Canvas Student or Canvas Teacher mobile apps.
December - Internal Team & K16: Preparing for migration of Group 2 courses. Making modifications to the K16 worksheet.
December - Internal Team: Working with WSU Tech Marketing we are changing the default theme colors - to take effect on December 15.
December - Internal Team & K16: January 5th will be the target date for the first wave of Group 2 courses. All Group 2 courses must be ready by Christmas Day to allow K16 enough engineering time to make our requested process changes.
December | January - Internal Team: Add Faculty Grade Entry information to all Spring Canvas courses. Training forthcoming at pre-session.
December - Internal Team: Interface changed to reflect college colors and branding.
December - Internal Team: Announcement added to Spring 24 Blackboard courses redirecting Group 1 students to Canvas. Information shared among internal stakeholders.
December | January - Internal Team: Canvas Observer Role training schedule in late January for Student Services and Advising.
December | January - Internal Team: Student Passport to Canvas course created and modified. (Student introduction to Canvas.) All WSUTech students will be loaded automatically in January. This course is inside Canvas.
December | January - Internal Team: Badgr LTI being added to Canvas.
MILESTONE 5 - Implementation Phase Complete. Canvas Consulting Concluded. Adoption Phase Commenced
January - Internal Team and K16: Group 2 Courses landing in Canvas.
January 10th - K16: Group 2 courses should be imported today.
January - Approximately half of the 150 summer 2024 courses have been corrected from the transition from K16.
January - Planning to turn on Canvas New Quizzes on January 31st.
February - Summer courses have had two QA passes. Grade schemas added.
February - Initiated work with IR and Datatelligent to pass Canvas data into the Data Lake.
MILESTONE 6 - Summer Courses Have Passed QA Process.
February - Initiated work on the Fall course QA process.
February - Added a 'best practices' module to new sandboxes, and uploaded it to Canvas Commons for on-demand download.
February - Signed contract for K16 Archive - a Blackboard data storage solution. We will license this for one year. This is to ensure data integrity as Blackboard goes offline.
February - Canvas Catalog contract signed.
February | March - 91 Fall courses reviewed (first pass)
February | March - Installed a Canvas Catalog Admin course developed by the University of Maryland. The team is reviewing and editing to fit WSU Tech.
March - Canvas Catalog implementation commencing. Three meetings to date. Prototype Discovery Page created
March - 400 Blueprint courses reviewed (first-pass).
March - Blueprint training commencing.
March - Second Blog sent to campus.
April - Kicked off Phase 3 of the project plan.
April - Approximately 20 courses remaining that require first pass. Goal remains May 1 for all Fall courses.
April - Initiating purchase of ALLY in this quarter.
April - Fall faculty Blueprint training continuing.
April - K16 Archive commencing.
April - New Quizzes training commencing.
April - First pass completed for all fall courses. Second pass commencing.
April - Contract process kicked off for Transact/Cashnet + Canvas Catalog integration
MILESTONE 7 - Fall Courses Have Passed QA Process.
April/May - Canvas Catalog implementation commencing.
Cashnet/Transact integration 90% complete. Creating finance codes.
Creating Subcatalogs for academic and non-academic course listings.
Waiting on domain name cut-over until the end of June. (training.wsutech.edu)
Mike Rowe Works integration 90% complete (curriculum.mikeroweworks.org).
Adding a custom Canvas Global Navigation menu that directs users to Catalog without the need to log in again.
April/May - K16 Archive is commencing. Test courses approved (10). Full archive underway (18k courses).
May - Program codes for Catalog store entered into Banner.
May - Testing storefront transactions in Canvas Test/Catalog.
May - Modified login created for Non-Credit Subcatalog courses. (Local authentication.)
May - K16 course migrations continuing. < 4,000 courses remaining in queue. Some courses are failing which will be addresses individually.
May - Encountering an error in the Transact > Banner posting. Dev Ops is working through that issue.
May - Mike Rowe training is commencing with Catalog and Canvas.
May - Custom Catalog Global Navigation widget added to Canvas. A Back To Canvas link added to Catalog. Navigation now stays in the same browser tab.
June - Catalog credit card transaction working in Beta. Moving to Production.
June - Waiting on carousel images to be approved for Non-Credit Training and Professional Development.
June - Still on target for Scaffolded Archive of all Blackboard courses.
June/July - Testing ongoing for selecting multiple Catalog courses within a single credit card transaction when they are associated with one Banner Index Code.
MILESTONE 8 - Full conversion to Canvas Complete
July - ALLY added to Canvas
July - Reviewing anti-plagiarism / anti-AI options: Turnitin and Copyleaks.
July/August - High School faculty being trained in Canvas
August - Copyleaks installed for pilot program.