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DIANN: All by my lonesome which means that it might take me a little longer to push things
out to you or it might take me a minute before I see a question that you ask in the text
area so just be patient with me.
And also feel free to interrupt me.
I'm the youngest of five, so if I'm not being interrupted regularly I don't really
know how to live.
Okay, so welcome to the Software to Canvas Transfer session.
My name is Diann Maurer.
I'm the Instructional Designer III for the Denton Canvas...
Denton Campus, excuse me which means I'm the senior instructional designer.
So, part of that is having a leadership role with the rest of the instructional design team.
I've been with TWU about eight years.
And I've been in Blackboard all of that eight years, and Canvas for about two years.
So, if you have a question about Canvas that I can't answer, that would be why.
But I can recite to you Blackboard with my eyes closed, standing on my head.
So, if you ask a question I don't have an answer to it, I'll figure it out and get
back to you later or take a minute and look it up right then, and everything will be fine. ...
So the session's going to run a little bit like this.
We're going to review some differences between Canvas and Blackboard that are especially
relevant to the transfer process.
I'm going to demonstrate how Canvas interprets Blackboard content with some show and tell.
And then, for the rest of the session, we're actually going to walk through the process
and you can follow along with me and do this in your own course.
We're going to actually take your Blackboard content, and upload it into Canvas, so that
you can see what's going to happen to your stuff, so you can make really informed decisions.
And that's really my only, my only goal with this session is that I just want everybody
to really have a good idea of what to expect, if and when they transfer their content into Canvas
So this session is not intended to be your first introduction to Canvas.
It's a hands-on workshop intended for people who have already been through at least one training.
If you haven't been through at least one training, you're absolutely welcome to stay.
I had somebody in a face-to-face session the other day, who had never seen Canvas before
but stayed and got through it and seemed to do okay.
But you might feel lost at some point.
So, just be aware of that.
Also, in order to fully participate in the session, you need to have access to sandbox in Canvas.
If you get into Canvas and realize you don't have a sandbox, you're still welcome to
stay and observe.
And then review the recording later on when you're ready to actually go through the process.
The content that I'm using to demonstrate the transfer process is from a teacher education
course with hybrid delivery.
So, mix of face-to-face and online.
If you teach clinical or practicum courses, or if you manage organizations, you might
feel during that demonstration that you're learning management system usage isn't represented,
or that Canvas isn't going to do what you need it to do.
But don't panic.
I promise that Canvas will do the things that you need it to do.
So, if you teach in one of those settings and you feel like the examples that I'm
using aren't relevant to you or your courses for the way you teach, please let me know
and we can talk about some things that are specific to your class. ...
Okay.
So, what do you remember about Canvas, especially how the big difference between Canvas and Blackboard?
What are some big differences that you remember from your previous trainings?
I'm going to turn my talk button off and give you a chance to type. [pause]
MALE: I remember the ability to interact and move materials around on the calendar.
That I thought was pretty neat.
DIANN: Yeah, you can move stuff around on the calendar, and if you move it on the calendar
it updates it in your actual course and on your course schedule and all of that stuff.
Which is part of the Canvas, is much more drag and drop than Blackboard is.
Which is, which is a nice thing I think.
So, one of the big differences that we don't really... expound on all that much in other sessions,
is the way that the back end of Blackboard and Canvas are setup.
So the way their brains are wired - if you will allow the analogy.
So, everybody thinks a little bit differently.
Blackboard and Canvas think a little bit differently from each other.
So, both systems have the important stuff you need to teach and manage your courses.
Announcements, quizzes, discussions, assignments, grade book and on, and on, and on.
But there are some major differences.
So, here's Blackboard's brain.
It basically works like a filing cabinet.
You have a file drawer for each course and within that drawer you can organize your content
into a nested file structure.
If you add an assignment in module 1 for example, that assignment is in module 1.
And when you delete the assignment, the assignment no longer exists.
And that's very different from how things will work in Canvas.
So, this is the Canvas brain.
I describe Blackboard as very boxy, and Canvas as very interconnected.
So, all your assignments and your content pages and discussions and quizzes in Canvas
are automatically organized into index pages that you can access from the course menu.
Canvas modules are used to create a linear path for students to progress to the content
and activities for each unit or week of your course.
Depending on how your course is organized.
So that means that if I create an assignment in module 1, the assignment is actually housed
on the assignment's index page.
And what I see in the module is just a link to that assignment.
So, if I delete the assignment link from the module, the assignment still exists on the
index page.
I haven't deleted the assignment; I've deleted the link to the assignment.
So that's a big difference between Blackboard and Canvas.
And it's important to kind of conceptually understand this before you transfer your content,
because Canvas organizes and stores content in this way.
Blackboard organized and stored it in a different way.
And so, when we export our data from Blackboard and import it into Canvas, Canvas will have
to interpret how Blackboard did things, and remix it into a way that Canvas can understand.
And because of that, some funny things might happen, or some things might disappear if
there aren't any comparable tools in Canvas, to bring things over in from Blackboard.
So, it's important to remember the basis of how Canvas will reorganize your materials
once you import them from Blackboard.
Importing content, Blackboard content into Canvas will be varying degrees of complicated
depending on your specific course.
The way you've organized your materials in Blackboard.
Whether you teach fully online or face-to-face.
And how complicated it is is really going to depend a lot on how deep your course design
is in Blackboard.
When I talk about deep course design, I'm referring to a few different characteristics.
So how many content items do you have on the course menu - remember you don't have the
same kind of control of the course menu in Canvas as you did in Blackboard.
And that means that Canvas has to take the course menu items and imports, and put them
into a different box.
So, each content area in Blackboard will become its own module in Canvas.
And I'm going to show you all of this a little later on.
So, the next one is if you frequently create content folders inside of other content folders
in Blackboard.
Again, Canvas does not organize materials into folders in the same way that Blackboard
does.
It more indexes different kinds of content, and then creates a web for students to follow
a path linking to each one.
So, when you access a course menu link on your Blackboard course menu, any folders listed
on that first page, which I'm calling the top level of folders, will become its own
module in Canvas.
So that's top-level content folders, and content areas linked from the course menu,
will all become their own modules.
If you use the learning modules tool in Blackboard to create lessons or units, Canvas will also
create a module for each of them.
And Canvas modules - if you're familiar with Blackboard learning modules - Canvas modules
function in a very similar way.
Where it's paged and students progress through it kind of like a book.
So, what about the folders inside the top-level folders, or inside the learning module?
Canvas will create a text heading with its parent module, within the parent module with
the name of the Blackboard folder, and then insert any descriptions you have on the outside
of the folder into a new page with the same name as the folder.
And again, I'm going to show you all of this.
So, but hopefully that gives you an idea of how the depth of your Blackboard course will
have an impact on the end result of the import into Canvas.
So, now I'll show you what a deep course looks like in Blackboard and how it turns
out when imported into Canvas.
So, to do that I'm going to switch from my slides over to Blackboard.
So, this is a course that's taught by one of the original 30 Canvas pilot participants,
Dr. Karen Dunlap in Teacher Education.
Karen has given me permission to use her content for training demonstrations.
So, I want to thank her for letting me butcher her content so thoroughly in the session.
If you've attended other Canvas workshops we've offered, this course might look familiar
to you already because we use it for show and tell in a variety of workshops.
So I want to show you a few things in this Blackboard course in order to then help make
sense of how this course imported into Canvas.
So, first take a look at her course menu over here on the left.
Karen has a highly customized course menu with many links to content areas.
And some of them are similar to those in Canvas, and some of them are totally unique.
For example, there's a link to the Blackboard discussion board.
There's also a link to Karen's Start Here section.
And another link that contains information specific only to the first day of class.
And as we know, Canvas won't be able to put any of those items on its course navigation menu.
So, it's going to put each one of those into its own module.
So, the syllabus and policies link here will become a module in Canvas.
So, I'm going to click into this syllabus and policies area, which takes me into a content
area where Karen has organized her policies and course information into folders.
And again, Canvas doesn't use folders to organize content the same way that Blackboard
does.
So each one of these will also become a module.
So, I'm going to flip back and forth between my Blackboard tab, and my Canvas tab a little
bit.
If you get disoriented, please let me know.
I don't want anybody to get seasick.
So, I'm switching back over to Canvas, and here is that course that I've imported into
Canvas from Blackboard.
So, you can see here are the titles of those course menu pages.
So here's her Start Here section, here's that syllabus and policies section.
And then, within her syllabus and policy section she has a course syllabus and academic policies folder.
So, in Canvas, if I scroll down just a little bit, it's going to be below the syllabus
and policies module.
But you can see it's not within that module, it's not clearly subordinated under that
module.
It's just two completely separate modules out of context from each other.
Which isn't how she intended for it to appear to students.
So, now I'm going to open the course syllabus and academic policies folder, so I can then
compare it to what that folder content is going to look like in Canvas again.
So, here she has a description for her folder that is basically just a table of contents
for what students are going to find in there.
And when I open the folder, she has created individual content items for each section
of her course syllabus.
And she did that because she wanted students to be able to skim down the page and find
the information that they needed relatively quickly.
And these little blue dog-eared page icons kind of guide your eye and help to break up
the sections of the syllabus.
But how's that going to look in Canvas?
So, Canvas doesn't have anything that's a content item the way we have in Canvas.
The way we have in Blackboard.
So, Canvas can only take our content items and give each of them their own page in Canvas.
And here's what that's going to look like.
So here's her course syllabus and academic policies module.
And when I open that first page... can see here's the same title of the folder, and here's
that folder description.
So that's going to be the first page, is whatever was on that outside of your folder.
Then, Canvas modules are - and you can use them in different ways - but Canvas modules are
kind of intentionally designed around this paged book idea.
So, when a student opens a module in Canvas, they're prompted to hit the next button
to progress through the module.
So, if I hit next, I get her course prefix and course number.
So it still goes in the same order as these, but they're just each on their own page.
So I have this huge, huge page title and then just a tiny bit of information below it.
So, I go to the next page and it's the same thing, great big title, very little information.
So, if I'm a student and this is how I'm reading my syllabus in Canvas, or if I'm
trying to go back to refer to something, and I'm having trouble finding the page, and
I just have to keep going through, and through, and through.
And it's going to get a little tedious and have a lot of clicks involved.
And then for Karen to go and edit her syllabus, she'll have to go into each individual page
to edit, change it and then save it again.
But that's not how she intended; this isn't how she intended for the syllabus to look
in her course.
She wanted everything to be all on the same page with headings and content.
So, another way that students can navigate - I'll go back to my modules page - is they can also
skim through and find, oh, I want to see the technology policy.
So, they click on the technology policy it loads the page.
Then they have to hit the back button, and reload and figure out where they were and
then find the next thing that they want to click on.
So either way, they're clicking a lot to get around in the course.
I'm going to turn my talk button off for one second so I can take a drink.
Again, if you, as you have questions, please feel free to type them in.
But if you have any questions right now, this is a good time to ask them.
[long pause...]
So, how do attachments carry over?
I'll show you that right now!
Okay, so in her Canvas course, there's a couple different ways to attach things in Blackboard.
Let me go into the spot where I know she has stuff.
Okay I'm going to go into project explanations and data chat.
Okay, so she, one of the ways that she has things linked, is in a content item she'll
use that browse my computer.
It's going to be pretty easy.
Don't worry; it's going to be fine.
And even if it's not easy this time, as soon as all your stuff is moved into Canvas,
it's going to work so much better.
Like in Canvas, this link to this PDF is going to have a little magnifying glass and when
I click on it, it's going to expand and I'll be able to read the PDF right there
on the page.
Students will be able to do that too.
So it's a lot better with embedding and the Canvas copies from Canvas to Canvas really well also.
Okay, so if I go in and edit this item, the attachments section, where I can view browse
my computer or browse course to attach a file, that's one of the ways to do it.
In Canvas - and you can see here in Blackboard - it gives you the item heading, and then says
attached files with your list of attachments.
When I put that into Canvas - going to scroll down and find that data chat module now...
there it is.
In Canvas, this one is data chat beginning concept.
So, let me find that page, here it is.
So in Canvas, when I open that page that it turned it into, it took the attachments that
used to be here between the title and the content and created a new heading at the bottom
of the page to put those attachments in.
So if you're the type of instructor who attaches things this way in the course, it
is going to come over just fine.
But, if you're the type of person who says this article is linked above, then you'll
have to go in and change all that language to say this article is linked below, because
Canvas does swap the content in the attachments area.
Another way to do it, is here, in this district wide data use item, she's used the paper
clip button on the text formatter and inserted a link that way.
When it goes into Canvas, it's going to copy that link, and it's going to move the
file but the link is still going to be pointing back to Canvas.
I mean back to Blackboard.
So it's going to effectively break the link.
So if you're a person who attaches files that way, you'll have to go through and
relink to everything.
But it's a lot easier to do in Canvas to fix that kind of stuff than Blackboard because
it's more drag and drop and less, you know, I have to go three screens in to attach a
file and then come back out.
Canvas has more of all the stuff you need on a single page in a single view.
So that's the second way to do it.
The third way to do it is to go to build content, and then create file.
I don't know if she has any of those in the course, but if you attach your syllabus
that way, that's also going to come over just fine into Canvas.
It shouldn't break the link or anything.
It'll just come over.
So those are the three ways.
One of those three ways is the way that you attach files I hope.
Awesome.
Okay.
So we already know what happens to our items and how the different ways to attach files
is interpreted by Canvas.
So, here's, so let's look at some more folder stuff.
So, I went to the project explanations link on the course menu, which is the content area.
And that became a module in Canvas.
This data chat folder that I get to on that project explanations page, this is what I'm
calling a top-level folder.
It's the first folder that you see when you click on a content area link in the Blackboard course.
So here's this top-level folder called data chat.
When I open it, there are more folders inside.
So what's going to happen to these folders?
I will show you.
Let me go back to my modules area.
And I'm going to scroll, scroll, scroll real fast.
Okay so here's that data chat module and then as I'm walking through I can see here
are the little green dog-eared pages that are my content pages.
Here's the classic link icon.
And then, here is this text heading that's not a live link, it is just text for that,
with the same name as that resource.
So what Canvas has done is it created a text header within the module, and then added all
the content from that folder subordinated and indented, I don't know if you can tell
how it's just slightly indented to the right between this chart of passing skill scores
and then this first item star resources here.
If I move it, now you can see it better how it indents.
So that's what Canvas is going to do with the content that's subordinated within folders.
And that's a folder within a folder.
It's very confusing for me to describe it I think.
It sounds so clumsy to describe it out loud.
So, I hope that you're able to see it as I'm describing it because I know that it's
kind of complicated.
Okay.
So hopefully that gives you an idea of how some things are going to come over.
Those are the major, major ones.
I've also seen where oh, if you have this icon with the splotchy colors, that's from
the mashup tool in Blackboard where you can like search for a YouTube video or a flicker
photo or whatever and embed that into the course.
Canvas doesn't have a comparable tool to the mashup tool.
So, it won't copy this in.
Another thing, oh here is a file, yeah.
So that goes over just fine.
Another thing that I've seen it screw up with, is, if you go to build content and it
selects a weblink option to create a link which is what this one is about test scores,
a guide to understanding.
Canvas seems to be pretty hit and miss about whether or not it's going to move these
links and recreate the links within the module.
I'm really not sure why.
But this one I think this one actually comes over just fine into the sandbox here.
And it usually will embed within the area, unless you tell it to open it in a new page.
So, it actually went just fine.
And in a safe to save session that I did a couple of days ago, I had an instructor who's
like most of his folder, he had like one item and then 10 links below linking to different
resources and articles for the students.
And none of them came over into Canvas.
Not a single one.
So I'm not really sure what the trick is for that one, but that's the only one that's
kind of weird that doesn't always work.
So... That's the end of the show and tell tour.
Do you have questions about any other kind of content?
Or anything about this process at all so far?
I'm going to turn my talk button off again and take another drink.
And then we'll move on to the next section.
So, this is a good time to go and log into Canvas, which is twu.instructure.com and Blackboard
twu.Blackboard.com.
So if you haven't done that go ahead and log into both of those.
"Do discussion board questions transfer over, or does one need to create them from scratch?"
Yes, your discussion board questions will move over.
Absolutely.
And generally, a lot more seamlessly then the content that I just showed you.
Like, these are all the major things that you need to know, but all of your graded stuff,
assignments, discussion boards, quizzes those are all going to move over pretty well into Canvas.
Okay I'm going to go drink, give me one second.
Okay.
Is everybody logged into both systems now?
Okay.
[pause]
So, when I was first developing this workshop and playing with how to move stuff from Blackboard
into Canvas, because the Canvas "people" will say 93 to 97% of your course you can
just dump into Canvas and everything's going to be fine.
So, I did that and with Karen's course and you saw how it came out.
That it's all the content is there, but it's not really there, the way she intended
it for it to be there.
And she's going to have to do a lot of work to clean it up.
So, what I was hoping was that I was going to be able to find a way to manipulate what
I was exporting from Blackboard in a way that when I imported it into Canvas, I could just
bring everything in and it was going to minimize all my work in Canvas that I was going to
have to do.
And I just kept butting up against this wall, could not get it to do it no matter what I
did to the Blackboard export file, I still had to do quite a bit of work in Canvas to
get the course ready to go.
And so I realized I was committing the same sin that we've been telling faculty participants
in our sessions not to do, which was I was trying to put all of my thinking and decision
making in Blackboard, when I needed to switch out of the Blackboard mode and try to think
in Canvas.
So, what's good about that is that in Blackboard all you have to do is export everything.
You don't have to make decisions about what am I going to take with me.
We're just going to put everything into one big package, and then be careful about
how we unpack in Canvas.
So, in Blackboard, open a course that you want to export, and scroll down to the control
panel on the left side and open the packages and utilities menu.
If you do Blackboard to Blackboard course copies regularly between semesters, the first
part of this process is going to be a little familiar to you.
Yes, you can copy over a live course.
It's not going to do anything to your Blackboard course.
Everything will still be there.
It's just going to create a copy of it for you to upload into Canvas.
So it's totally fine to use a live course if you need to.
So from the packages and utilities menu, find the fourth option down that says export archive
course and click on that.
Now, I've been doing these workshops for a while so I actually already have an export file listed.
You probably won't have one.
So, what you're going to need to do is click on the export package button.
And again, if I start to go too fast and you get behind, please raise your hand and let
me know so I can back up and get everybody caught up together.
It's hard to tell where people are when I can't see them.
I'm just alone in a room talking to myself for two hours.
Okay, so the first thing I want you to do on this export course page is find the file
attachment heading, and then below that you should find a button that says calculate size,
and click on that button.
And it should give you a number in theoretically, megabytes.
Is anybody's over 400 megabytes?
Okay.
I'm taking that as a no.
That's good.
Your total file storage limit in each one of your Canvas courses is 500 MB.
So, if you've accumulated quite a bit of stuff in your Blackboard course, and you have
you know 500 MB of files in your Blackboard course, we'll have to find a different method
to move your stuff over.
And you can work also one on one with an instructional designer if you do have a course like that.
To kind of give you a custom managed way to transfer your materials.
So, under select course materials heading, then below that, there should be a button
that says, "select all."
So, you just click on select all and that's going to check every single box on the list.
There's a couple of boxes that you might want to uncheck.
The first one is announcements.
And these are listed in alphabetical order except for content areas.
So, the first one is announcements because you know, a lot of the time your announcements
are really specific to that particular semester and you don't always recycle them.
If you use the same welcome announcement every year, or you have certain announcements that
you just tweak every semester and reuse, it's totally fine to export them.
And I'm going to leave this checked just so, just to help me when I'm demonstrating
how to import.
So that one you might want to uncheck.
And the other one that you might want to adjust is under discussion board, where it says include
starter post for each thread.
Select the second option for include only the forums with no starter post.
And you want to select that option, it's in your discussion boards you setup a prompt
for them and create a forum.
And then when students go in to participate, they create their own thread to start.
But if you're having, if you have forums created where students don't create their
own threads but only respond to you, then you would go ahead and leave that one checked.
But the second option is going to prevent any of your student work to come in to your Canvas course.
Now, some of these things you might see and think well I don't use that like glossary.
A lot of people don't use it.
You might not use journals.
And the reason why I've checked them is because, well, Canvas isn't going to bring
them in anyway, so it's going to disregard that data anyway.
And if you don't use it, there's nothing for Blackboard to export from it.
So that's why I'm saying not to worry about going through and checking and unchecking
all of these other things.
It's easier just to hit select all and make those two changes.
So, does anybody have any questions about exporting from Blackboard before we hit submit?
Okay, so go ahead, and hit submit.
And this is going to take a certain amount of time.
You should get a success message in green at the top of the page that says that it's
queued or it might say that it's running.
If you have your email up or your Outlook open, it'll send you a confirmation message
when the export package is ready.
You can also incessantly hit this refresh button over and over and over again until
it comes up, depending on how impatient you are.
So again, this is going to be a little wait time.
So, if you have any questions or concerns or anything you want to talk about, this is
a good time to do that as well.
I'm going to turn my talk button off and get another drink of water.
Okay.
I refreshed my page again, and now I have a second one listed.
So here it is right here, my new one that I just did.
When you have your zip file listed here, it'll say export file underscore with the course
number or the course ID.
Give me a green check mark so that I know we can move on.
It's going to take a different amount of time for everybody just based on how big your file is.
[pause]
Which part about waiting for your zip file to be listed?
MALE: No, I think I just saw what I think it says export package and then I got two
zip files.
Or, wait a minute, I'm looking at this wrong.
DIANN: Yes, you should have, and it should have the date you know today's date and
the relatively current time listed there.
MALE: Let me make sure I've done that correctly.
Access is active.
Can you tell me, excuse me.
DIANN: So, the page that you're on, are you seeing this export archive course title,
page title?
MALE: Yes.
DIANN: Okay.
And so under file name do you have an export file listed?
MALE: No, I don't.
I've got, should I refresh?
DIANN: Yeah hit the refresh button.
MALE: I'm sorry, okay.
DIANN: No, that's okay.
MALE: There it is.
There it is, sorry.
I got behind.
DIANN: No, that's all right.
Okay, so, and I see everybody else has green check marks so we're ready to keep going.
Okay, so the next thing that we have to do is, you're just going to click the link
to that zip file and if it prompts you, you're going to select to save the file.
You don't want to open the file.
You don't want to extract the zip file or anything, you just want to save the zip file
as one, one zip file and keep it in tact as a zip file.
If you're on a campus computer, it'll probably go directly into your downloads folder.
Or it might go onto your desktop.
It just kind of depends on what browser you're using and how you have it setup where it's
going to go.
So go ahead, and start downloading that.
And whenever your file is finished downloading, give me a green check mark again.
[pause]
Awesome, everybody is ready to go.
Okay, so now you can close your Blackboard tab.
Well, maybe not close it.
But all of the... you might want to refer back to it, just to compare between your Blackboard
and your Canvas course, to make sure everything came over right.
But otherwise you can close it if you want that's fine.
So, I'm going to go into Canvas.
So, go into Canvas and open your Canvas sandbox.
And we'll import the content.
So, here I am in my Canvas sandbox, it's totally blank.
I haven't put anything in here yet.
So, on the course menu to the left, all the way at the bottom, you should have an option
to go to your course settings page.
So, it'll just say settings and you'll click on that.
And then you should have the course details tab open.
Okay.
Now, depending on the size of your browser and your display, you should have a sidebar
here all the way on the right with a list of options.
If you don't see it on the right, scroll down because Canvas has a mobile responsive design.
So it'll take this, if the monitor is too small, it'll take this section and put it
down below everything else.
So, you're looking for a little over half way down an option that says "import course content".
So, click on that.
Everybody with me?
Okay.
Now, the only thing you can interact with on this page so far, is this drop-down menu.
This is where you're going to tell it what kind of content you're importing.
So, you're going to scroll down until, or not scroll, you're going to skim down until
also again, about halfway down the menu, is the option for "Blackboard 6, 7, 8, 9 export zip file".
Our current version of Blackboard is Blackboard 9.
So, you want the 6, 7, 8 and 9 not the one below it that says Blackboard Vista, that's
a completely different version of Blackboard that isn't ours.
So 6, 7, 8, 9.
When I have that option selected, some more options expand for me.
So, the first one is to hit the browse button, and in your download file or your desktop
wherever you saved that export zip file, find it, and attach it.
This is one that I did a couple weeks ago.
I'm trying not to just continually download the same export file over and over and over
again, cause it's going to clog up my desktop, my hard drive pretty fast.
So, find your export file, double click it.
And it should be listed here next to your browse button, if it's been selected.
The question bank isn't relevant to what we're doing here so I'm going to skip
that section.
And then the next heading down is the most important one, where you're going to select,
select specific content, the second option.
Not all content.
All content will just do a straight dump of everything in your course into Canvas, which
is how it ends up looking like Karen's course that I was showing you.
Canvas is going to let you be very, very selective about what you import, which is great.
So make sure that you have the second option selected.
There's an optional setting below it, the second check box under options where it says
adjust events and due dates.
If you check that box, and then where it says date adjustment, hit remove dates.
That's going to delete all of your due dates and availability dates and stuff.
And the reason I'm suggesting to use that option, is because then on the syllabus page
in Canvas it creates this course summary that is automatically going to put all of your
assignments and everything into their order by due date.
And anything that doesn't have a date attached to it will just be listed in alphabetical
order below that list.
So that's one way that you can kind of keep track of where you are in your sprucing up
process in Canvas is to know well I've set dates for these things, so I know that I've
checked those and they're ready to go and you can move down the list like that.
So, if that appeals to you, you're welcome to use that setting.
Another thing that you can do just for future reference, if you use the shift dates option,
you can put in the beginning date for the course, the last time you taught it and the
beginning date for the course when you will teach it next.
And it'll kind of roll all those dates forward to your future semester.
But you'll still have to check to make sure you know you'll have to make adjustments
for like when spring break is and when Thanksgiving is.
Yes, Gerard, go ahead.
GERARD: Thank you.
I've run into a bit of a problem.
Instead, in my MAC book, when I open the export file to attach to choose file, I come up with
an incredibly long list of, I have to choose each individual subfile in the export file.
So I--
DIANN: Yeah, you should not have to do that.
So, what it sounds like is that your MAC is setup to automatically extract the files.
So, do you have, so you should have, you probably have that folder, but you should also have
a zip folder that you can't expand whenever you go to open it.
GERARD: Let me just go real quickly.
Let me go back.
DIANN: And it didn't prompt you to make any selections, it just automatically downloaded
that way?
GERARD: I got export file, when I click on that to choose, when I choose that, I've
got about a million DHE files.
There is an XML file.
Let me open up these two and see what's in here.
DIANN: So where did those, so when you went to download it, did it go into your downloads
library on your MAC?
GERARD: Yes.
DIANN: Okay.
So, you might try going up to your spotlight and doing a search for export file underscore,
and see if maybe the zip file went into a temp folder and then it automatically extracted
everything into downloads.
But there definitely should be a compressed – oh, here's an idea!
This might work.
Okay on the most exterior folder that said export file, if you right click or control
click on it, do you have the option to compress it?
GERARD: Let me, it doesn't look like that.
I can choose it.
I don't, --
DIANN: Oh, you probably have to open up a new finder window cause you're probably
in the finder window.
GERARD: Yeah, I'm in finder under downloads.
DIANN: If you open up an independent one.
Okay.
GERARD: I don't want to hold this up.
I'll follow right along with you.
I'm with this.
I'll know next time to go into Chrome.
I did that in the first session and I just realized what I, if I'm in Chrome instead
of Safari, I can do much, much more.
I'll just stay with this, I won't bother anybody.
Just go ahead with it.
DIANN: Are you sure?
I feel bad cause I know this is the second time you've attended this session.
GERARD: This will work just fine.
I have to keep in the back of my mind that when I do go to TWU, many times I have to use Chrome.
And I just let it slip away from me.
DIANN: Yeah.
So, in your finder when you are in your downloads area and you see that top level folder, if
you right click or control click on it, what are the options that it gives you?
None of them are to compress the file?
GERARD: I could try that again.
DIANN: I think it might say send to and then you select to compress option.
I'm trying to remember on my MAC laptop what it looks like.
GERARD: There's the export file.
And you said, tell me that again what you control what?
DIANN: It's control and then you click on it with your control key down and it should
give you your options menu.
Like right click on a PC–
GERARD: Yeah okay.
Sorry, okay.
Open, it doesn't say show you a quick look, share, duplicate, compress.
There it is.
Nice.
Okay click on --
DIANN: Compress it and then follow whatever prompts you want to come out of the zip file.
I'm not sure if this will work, but we can try it.
GERARD: Yes, it came out as a zip.
DIANN: Okay awesome.
So, go ahead and attach that zip file in here.
And again, I'm not sure it'll work.
I never tried doing it this way before, but we'll find out.
GERARD: Let me see if I can drag it over there, cause it's not giving me the option to choose.
Let me see if I can drag it over.
DIANN: Okay.
GERARD: Ta dah!
Yes, it's there.
DIANN: Awesome.
GERARD: Okay.
Sorry for the --
DIANN: Okay.
Oh no, that's okay.
This is why we're all doing it together.
I had a group of 11 or 12 last week.
And this is much less pressure.
So, okay, make sure then that the content option is select specific content.
And if you want to, remove your dates or shift your dates forward, you're welcome to do that.
I'm going to choose to remove them.
And then as long as that option to select specific content is chosen, then you hit import.
And this is another waiting game where it'll process it.
I've got a little spinning beach ball for a second, and then it'll give me a current
job listing that says that it's running.
There's a little progress bar here that'll go, and then it'll turn into a button that
says select content when it's finished.
So whenever you see that button that says select content - see, here's mine- give me
a green check mark.
[pause]
And while we're waiting for those to finish uploading, I'm going to show you a couple
of things before we move on.
So I'm going to switch again back to my slides.
So, some things just won't import into Canvas because Canvas doesn't have a comparable
tool to the one used in Blackboard.
So that's going to include things like the contacts tool, which is what you might use
to add your instructor info.
Each semester it has that instructor info option on the course menu, and then you go
in add your photo and your office hours and stuff.
Canvas doesn't have a tool like that.
So that won't come over.
Blogs, jourrnals, wikii's - both campus pack and Blackboard versions - aren't going to
import into Canvas.
You'll have to create those fresh again in your Canvas course.
If you use, Turnitin assignments in Blackboard, they're not going to export or import into Canvas.
And the method for creating a Turnitin assignment in Canvas is different from how
it works in Blackboard.
So, if you're a Turnitin using person, or also a Campus Pack using person, your workflow
is going to change a little bit when you're creating those assignments in Canvas.
So again, I encourage you to contact an instructional designer.
You're welcome to call me or email me, I'm happy to help you.
Walk through how to create those things again.
Some things will import to Canvas, but depending on your course and how you like to work, it
might not be worth the trouble and effort to do it.
So that's going to include your content areas and content folders, which are all going
to become modules.
The content items, which are all going to become content pages in Canvas.
Remember we saw all of those pages in Karen's course that were just tiny short little pages.
And learning modules.
I think learning modules work a little bit better when importing them into Canvas if
you're a learning modules tool person.
Because learning modules are built in Blackboard the same way.
So, they're already setup to kind of be one page at a time.
So, if you're using learning modules, you might go ahead and try it because you might
find that it still works pretty well for you in Canvas as it did in Blackboard.
And then the other one is groups.
If you use Blackboard groups, they are going to import into Canvas, but the group settings
and the group tools available to students are completely different in Canvas than they
are in Blackboard.
So that's an area of your course if you use a lot of groups, that's an area of your
course you're going to get to know, anyway.
You're going to have to get to know it, anyway.
Basically, all it's going to do is create groups with the same name as the ones they
had in Blackboard.
You know, it's not going to put students into the groups.
It's not going to do anything like that.
It's just going to create the group with the name.
So, if it was me, I would say just go ahead and build those from scratch in Canvas cause
it's really not saving you any time to import them.
And then several things are going to import into Canvas just fine.
You'll do a little bit of house keeping with them.
But for the most part, it's going to be fairly seamless.
So, announcements, assignments, your calendar events, your discussion boards, your course
files, test surveys and pools, those should all be relatively fine.
There is a weird thing that happens if you use surveys in Blackboard.
Since it's a survey, it doesn't have a correct answer.
And for some reason when Canvas imports those, it will flag them as not being able to find
the correct answer.
Even though there isn't a correct answer.
So, we have to do a little adjustment in surveys if you use surveys.
But otherwise it should all be, all that should be fine.
Yes, Gerard.
GERARD: Will there be the same kinds of tests available in Canvas as we had in Blackboard?
For example, multiple choice, multiple answer.
[long pause]
Did I lose everyone?
DIANN: No, sorry.
I started talking without turning my talk button on.
That's my bad.
Okay.
So, yes, Canvas has all of the same question types available as you had in Blackboard.
All of the standard ones, matching, multiple choice, true0/false, essay questions, fill in the blank.
It's going to have all of those.
There are a couple of question types in Blackboard that we don't have in Canvas, but they're
the super weird ones that almost nobody uses.
I don't know anybody whose using them right now is the hot spot in Blackboard.
Where you can do, you can pull up an image and then students have to click on where the
pencil is in this image.
Like identify the pencil and they can, you can have them identify things.
Canvas doesn't have a question type like that.
And it also doesn't have, Blackboard has one called quiz bowl and I think it does like,
it does the Jeopardy style question and flips the answer and the question and Canvas doesn't
do that.
But all the standard ones that you're probably using, those are all going to be there.
And, it's a lot easier to setup tests and write tests in Canvas than it is in Blackboard.
And if we have time before the session is over, I can walk through some of that with you too.
GERARD: Thank-you very much.
DIANN: You're welcome.
Ok.
So does anybody have any other questions about this content, and what's going to come in
and what isn't?
I'm going to go through all of this in a lot more detail here in a second.
But if you have any questions, you're welcome to ask.
Okay.
So now we all have our big blue button that says select content.
So click that button and it's going to open up a light box it's going to give you some
options.
And now I'm going to send you a file through Blackboard collaborates.
So, give me just one second to attach that.
Okay I'm having a technical problem where I can't seem to find that file.
So, I'm going to send that to you in a different way.
What I'm sending you is a Blackboard to Canvas workflow spreadsheet... as a PDF.
I'm just going to send you the direct link to it.
[pause]
This is one of those things that normally I have someone ready to send this out.
Okay, so I'm pasting the link into the text chat area. [Viewers: send email to tlt@twu.edu and request a copy of the Blackboard to Canvas Workflow worksheet.]
This is going to open up the document in Google Drive and then from there you can save it.
It's a PDF and I'm going to also take you on a little tour of that document before
we move on.
Okay so here's my editable view of that document.
So here in the first column, I have the Canvas import options.
And if you compare them to the window you have up in Canvas, you can see that they're
all the same, they're listed in the same order.
And then, I have two boxes for you to mark whether you want to check the box to import
it, or whether you just want to create all of those again in Canvas after you've imported
so that column is labeled DIY for do it yourself.
I have a relatively brief description in that center column for what is going to be included
in that category from Canvas.
And some things to think about before you import them.
And then what to look at after they're imported to kind of get an idea of where to start with
your cleanup process.
And then, on the last column I have a progress notes page.
If you want to print this out right now and follow along on paper, you're welcome to.
This is something that I use you know I designed this session to be face-to-face, so this is
something that I think they get more use out of in the face-to-face session.
But, so, you can take notes there to keep track of where you are for all of your course transfers.
So, with that said, let's go through these options in Canvas.
So, course settings, it's not really clear what Canvas decides as the course setting
versus what Blackboard decides as a course setting.
Some of their course settings are different.
So, and course settings is going to be an area of your course that you're going to
have to get to know, anyway.
So, I tend to not import that and just I know I'm going to have to go in and adjust all
my settings and stuff anyway before I'm ready to open the course.
So, I don't import any of that stuff because I don't know what's going to import necessarily.
The next one is, modules.
And remember, this is where all of your course menu items and all of those top-level folders
are going to be listed.
Canvas has a really nice feature, it's this little arrow to the left of your check box
that will expand that category, and you can see every single thing that it's decided
to turn into its own module in Canvas.
So, you can be very, very selective here and like in Karen's course, she does have weekly modules.
So, she might go ahead and check all of the things for her weekly modules, and then leave
everything else off to create separately in Blackboard.
So if you want to try doing or in Canvas sorry.
So, if you want to try doing that, you're welcome to do that.
When you see things if you have something in your module section that says assignments,
that doesn't include the assignments.
It's just creating a module called assignments because you had a folder named assignments
in your Blackboard course.
So, this like assignment submission thing I don't have to import it because it doesn't
actually contain any of the assignments.
The assignments are going to be listed in the assignments index below.
So, don't let that one confuse you.
So, go through that list and decide what you want to import.
If it was me and I was doing it for Karen's course, I would probably choose not to import
any modules because of how, what I know about her content where she has so many tiny, tiny
little bits of information and separate items, versus, you know things that are fine to be
all on their own page.
So, I'm going to leave that one unchecked for my purposes.
You know your content.
You know your course and your needs, you make the best decision for your course.
And if at the end of the workshop you realize I regret doing all of this, we can, I can
walk you through how to reset your sandbox in Canvas, and wipe it clean so you can start
over and import it in a different way, or do whatever you want.
So skim through that list and select the things that you want from your modules.
[pause]
Okay, and I just flipped back over to my workflow and mark that as DIY, so I know that I'm
not importing anything.
Please stop me if I get ahead of you.
I'm going to go ahead and describe the next one.
Assignments.
Again, open that, expand that.
Yes.
It's very easy to delete stuff that you end up realizing you don't want.
And Canvas is very drag and drop so it's a lot easier to edit things.
It's a lot easier to reorganize and move stuff around.
That's one of the reasons why I say put all of your decision making in Canvas because
with Blackboard you have to know like where do I need to hoover over to even expose the
button to open this menu.
Whereas in Canvas, everything's going to be right there.
So, and I'll show you some of that stuff toward the end as well.
But yeah, if you realize I don't want to erase all of this, but I just want to erase
some things, yes, you can absolutely do that.
So, under your assignments, it's going to list your assignments but it's also going
to list your assignment categories.
And if you use weighted grades in Blackboard's Grade Center, you might put your assignments
into different categories so that you can weight those categories a certain percentage.
In Canvas I've called an assignment group.
So, it's going to take all of the categories, which are going to be these up here at the
top listed down through discussion.
These are ones that Blackboard creates automatically.
They're created by the system.
We don't have control over whether or not they're there.
So, Canvas is going to take all of those categories and create individual assignment groups for them.
So, you can choose not to import those, the total and the weighted total columns will
also get turned into assignment groups.
So, I would say definitely don't check those two, cause Canvas's grade book is going
to you know, it has its own system for doing, for calculating grades.
So, one thing that you can do if you have two monitors, if you have dual displays for
your desktop, you can have your Blackboard for grade center up in one tab, and your Canvas
course up in another tab, and compare your Grade Center to this list and choose only
the columns that you really, really want.
And this is another one of those things where if you've been here for a long time, and
have copied your course forward semester after semester, sometimes the Grade Center can get
a little bit broken.
Or sometimes a Turnitin assignment will break and for some reason it retains the grade
column in Grade Center you can't get it to delete, so you hide it.
So, this is an opportunity to avoid bringing any of that stuff into the course.
So again, be very selective.
Go through here, check everything off that you want.
I'm going to just choose to import everything in the assignments because that's easier
for me for demonstrating for right now.
And you're going to have the same thing with quizzes and question banks.
Canvas automatically creates a question bank for each one of your quizzes, which is different
from how that worked in Blackboard.
In Blackboard the question banks are called pools and you had to create those on purpose
in Blackboard.
But Canvas will automatically organize all of those questions into question banks, so
that you can you know create tests and use questions from different question banks.
And then if you edit the question in the question bank, it'll automatically update to all
the tests that you're using it in, which is a nice feature.
So question banks, you can definitely import those.
Quizzes, definitely import those.
After you import them, you'll want to go through and just compare them to your tests
in Blackboard and make sure that everything came over.
You might see some error messages about not being able to find the correct answer so you'll
have to fix those.
But it's much easier to edit and work with quizzes in my own personal opinion in Canvas
than it is in Blackboard.
So feel free to import both of those.
As we go along I need to update my workflow.
So I'm putting assignment questions, quizzes and question banks.
The next one is discussion topics.
Same thing.
Just go through, select the ones you want or select all of them.
They're going to, they should import just fine.
We're not seeing any really major weirdness happening with discussion topics.
Next is wikii pages.
This one is one of the biggies.
So, Canvas will take the content items in Blackboard and turn them into content pages in Canvas.
And for some reason when you're importing content, content pages in Canvas are called
wikii pages.
So content page, wikii page, they're the same thing.
So, you can see that this is going to create 134 pages, if I choose to import all the wikii
pages.
So there might be some things in here that you want to add and import into your course
that you know, yes, that's a stand-alone page.
I definitely want that to be a stand-alone page.
But some other things you might-well not want-to be a stand-alone page and then also it might
be difficult out of context to see where all of these titles belong in your Blackboard course.
Because you might have 15 modules in your course and you have the content item in each
one of those modules called objectives or readings.
So, it might not be really clear what the content even is depending on how you've
titled your items.
So again, for me if I was making decisions for Karen's course, I would choose not to
import any wiki pages at all.
So, one thing that I want to make sure I forgot to tell you, up here in modules is, I import
module 1, it's going to also import automatically, any files, any assignments, any discussion
boards that are associated with that area in Blackboard.
So it's also going to bring in your content items as pages.
Even if you don't have them checked further down in this list, they're going to be included.
So, if there's a week one-clip quiz in your week one module that you don't want to bring
into Canvas, but you have the week one module checked, it's still going to bring in that
quiz.
Which is a little bit confusing and not really obvious by this process, which is why I forgot
to tell you.
So that's another reason why I wouldn't import any modules for this, because I know
that I don't want all those items to come over as individual pages.
The next one is announcements.
Again, you might not have included them in your export file, so you probably won't
even see it listed here.
But if you do, you can select the welcome announcement or whatever announcements you
recycle every semester.
The announcements seem to be coming into Canvas just fine.
One thing to remember though, is that in Canvas, by default, students can comment on your announcements
directly which they could not do in Blackboard.
No, your content is not going to be duplicated if you have assignments within modules and
select both of them.
It's only going to bring the assignment in once, and then what it'll do is the assignment
will be on the assignments index page where it lives.
And then also there will be a link to that assignment from the module that you imported.
So it's not going to create duplicates.
If it was Blackboard, it probably would create duplicates.
We get used to that duplicates problem in Blackboard, but Canvas doesn't seem to do
that so far.
Calendar events.
You may or may not have listed.
Calendar events should be, no I mean, that's why, ask all the questions you want.
This is a great time to do it.
I want to make sure that everybody understands that if you're exporting and importing on
your own later, you know hopefully you'll retain at least some of it.
Sometimes, I feel like I'm just hosing you down with a fire extinguisher.
So, I'm not going to bring wiki pages, I'm not going to bring in announcements.
Calendar events refers to events that you've created on your calendar in Blackboard.
So if you create a calendar event in Blackboard to show when your office hours are, those
kinds of events will be listed there.
It's kind of the same with announcements.
They might not be really relevant every single semester, so you may not want to import those
if you have any listed.
Student groups is that one that I said it'll create groups that are named all of these things.
But it doesn't really say to you any time because you have to get to know how groups
work in Canvas anyway.
So, I'm not going to import those either.
And then, files.
This is the last really, really big decision-making place.
So, a lot of the people who go through this workshop, who teach 100% face to face, will
decide you know what, I'm only going to bring in my files and my assignments and quizzes.
And I'm going to make everything else from scratch in Canvas.
So you can be very, very selective about what files you want to bring in.
Or you can just bring in everything.
And these should be organized in the same way that they were organized in Blackboard.
So if you created a file structure in your Blackboard course files area that should be
reflected here as well.
I often have to make my own Blackboard material; can I construct a course in Canvas without
any import from Blackboard?
Yes, you absolutely can.
And I'm going to show you some stuff about creating content and modules in Canvas once
we've imported all the stuff.
So yes, you can, is the short answer to that.
Okay, so once you have everything that you want to import checked off here in this list,
you can go ahead and select the select content button to submit it and it'll give you the
current job, and it'll all run again and let's see if I have everything I want checked.
Yes, so I'm going to go ahead and click on that button.
And it'll queue and then it'll run and then it'll say that it's completed.
So, when you have a notice here in orange I think saying that it's complete, that
the job is complete, give me a green check mark and we'll move on again.
[pause]
Oh, yours came in in green.
I think that must be a MAC versus PC thing cause mine's orange.
So that's fun.
That's a fun difference.
Okay.
Let me clear...
Okay.
So now, next to your thing that says that it's completed, you should have a link or
a note here that gives you a number of issues.
You might have zero issues and if so congrats.
That's a great sign.
I have only one issue listed and mine says that there's a missing link found in imported content.
So whatever number you have listed there, if you click on that link yay.
If you click on that link it'll expand a list.
And that's one place where you might choose to start cleaning up.
If I select the link you can see that it's like kind of out of context.
I don't know which assignment it is.
I don't really know what the missing link is.
And if I open the assignment description, if I click on that link and open the assignment,
it'll take me to the assignment or other piece of content that is, that has a broken
link or a missing content or whatever.
The problem is, is that it doesn't like have any big flashing pointing arrows telling
me what exactly is broken.
That's awesome Gerard.
I'm just glad that rezipping that content worked.
I'll keep that one in my pocket for the next time it happens cause I'm sure it'll
happen again.
So, this isn't a whole lot of, yes go ahead.
MALE: I just wanted to follow-up.
I was not aware of pushing control and then clicking on the, I'm not sophisticated at
all in computer use.
DIANN: It's a nice thought that you have a new tool to put in your pocket then.
MALE: Oh, hell yes.
[laughs]
DIANN: Okay, so for this assignment there's really only one piece of content linked here
which is this document.
When I clicked to open it, I get oops you have a broken link.
So, I know that this is something that I'm going to have to relink.
Unfortunately, I've done this workshop enough times, that I know to expect this error to
come up.
But when I go to edit the announcement and relink it, I chose to import all of my files
if you recall.
So over on the right side, you should have a side bar that has three tabs link, files, and images.
If I go to files it'll give me all of my course files.
But for some reason, Canvas glitches on importing this particular assignment, and that's the
hole where that document should be and it's not listed.
So for some reason, with this particular assignment, Canvas failed to import-- either Canvas failed
to import it, or Blackboard failed to export it.
I'm not really sure what happened.
But so, this is one of those cases where you'll have to go back into your Blackboard course,
find that file, download it, or if you already have a copy of it on your desktop, pop it
into Canvas and relink it.
But otherwise, it's really, really a nice easy thing so let's pretend that that file is here.
If I highlight and remove the link, and then go over and just click on the file that I want,
it's going to automatically relink it.
If I don't have any files listed there but I want to add the attachments, I can just
go in and click it, or I can... maybe not.
I think I used to be able to drag and drop them over there.
But so, that's something that's really nice and why I encourage you to at least export
and import your files from Blackboard into Canvas, because once they're in Canvas,
it's really easy to access them and link to them from all different kinds of places.
Let me cancel out of that and then I'm going to show you on the original course that I
had imported that I've been demonstrating with, let me see if it's still up.
Yeah.
So, when I do a straight dump in here, I get 31 issues.
And I know it'll be a list like this.
Most of them were for missing content in the announcements.
And most of these that we explored were she had an image embedded in her announcement.
And the image came over in her Canvas files, but for some reason it still, the embed code
is still linking back to Blackboard and Canvas doesn't update that.
So, she would have to go in and relink, re-embed all of those images.
Now, so let's say you didn't bring in any of your wikii pages, any of the content
pages or content items from Blackboard into Canvas and you're ready to start bringing
in the content.
Here's one way to do that: if you are lucky and privileged enough to have double monitors
available, it's a little bit hard to show when I can only do it on one display.
But if you pop out, actually I wanted this to be reversed.
I want my Canvas course over here, because I'm right handed.
You can pull up your Blackboard course on one page, let me go to that syllabus and policies
area.
And pull up Canvas on the other display.
And remember we've said well Karen wants all of this to be on the same page.
So, we can create a page and put all this content on it.
So, I'm going to go to my pages index in Canvas, doesn't have any in it.
And I'm going to add one and I'm going to call it course syllabus and academic policies
and then now, I can start adding my content.
So, it also helps if you have edit mode turned off in Blackboard when you're doing this.
But so I can copy content, paste it in and then I can create my heading in Canvas and
then find that content again that goes under that heading, paste it in.
It really pastes pretty well.
I do encourage you to and then you can just go down the list that way.
Sometimes it might be easier just to type in the title of the heading instead of copy and pasting.
And copy it over.
Now, one thing that is really going to be helpful to you if you're doing it this way,
is you're going to hit, put your cursor inside the text box, hold down your control
or command key, and then hit your letter A. And that's going to highlight everything
that is in all the content that's in that text box.
Then up on top row of editing buttons in your Canvas course, you have a T sub X icon.
When I hoover over it I get a note that says it's to clear formatting.
So, if I click on that, it's going to strip out all of that Blackboard formatting because
Blackboard doesn't always perfectly speak the same language as other people.
And then I can reformat it the way I want it to look in Canvas.
So, I can turn that into a heading.
I've already turned this into a heading.
And maybe in Canvas I want it to be bullets instead of the way Karen had done it.
So, here's my bullet list.
Here's another bullet list.
And just keep going down the page like that until I have all the content on one page that
I want.
You might find as you're looking through this, that oh I don't really want all of
this to be on one page.
I just want to have the course information on one page.
And then I'll put my objective, my course objectives and assignments on the next page.
So you get to decide how you want to chunk this information for students for it to appear
to them on a single page.
So I'm going to hit save.
...save the page.
Now I can go into for example my quizzes area, and I'll maximize this again and close my
workflow.
And close this and close this.
I can go into my quizzes area see my list of quizzes that have come through, open each
one of those up, go and just do a side by side comparison with Blackboard to make sure
everything came over right.
And you should even be able to just see, here's 10 questions and then look at the total number
of questions in your test.
And then you'll know, "Oh this only brought 9 questions over, let me go see what that
10th question is," and then, recreate it.
So, I'm going to open quiz ...and I'm going to edit it.
And this is when I say that I think it's easier to do quizzes in Canvas than it is
in Blackboard.
Because here I have the details about the quiz, including how I want it graded, and
what assignment group I want it to be in.
If I want to allow multiple attempts or not.
I can rework all of these settings and then I just flip over to the other cap to start
editing my questions.
And it looks like these are all like short answer or essay questions anyway.
You can do it that way.
The same with your assignments index.
You can go and check.
I really, really like the assignments index page in Canvas.
I don't know how many times I've worked with an instructor where they can't remember
if an assignment is in module 2 or module 3.
And I'm sure the same thing happens with students and they might go through and hunt
and peck to find where a particular assignment is.
Or, you can just come to the assignment index and here all of your assignments are.
So, here are those assignment groups that I said would be created based on the categories
that were in Blackboard.
If I want to rearrange these, I just click and drag and put them somewhere else.
You can also reorganize them by categories.
So, I can move my assignment category up to the top and then have various categories.
It's also, the assignments index is also going to list your quizzes, and your graded
discussion topics.
So here again, that's the total column and the weighted total column in Blackboard, come
into Canvas as assignment groups for some reason, instead of in Blackboard, where they're
calculated columns.
So, this is an example if you imported these, you're probably going to want to delete
them.
So, that's assignment groups and the assignments page.
And you can choose whether or not to make this link visible to students also.
Discussions.
Same thing.
You just want to go in, discussions display a little bit differently in Canvas than they
do in Blackboard, because in Blackboard you can have them in whatever order you want.
In Canvas, it puts them in, let's see, how does it put them in- it puts them in like
chronologically by due date and then alphabetically after that.
Or, and then it, whichever has the newest post will come up to the top of the page.
So, it'll be in a different order.
See this one says it's ordered by recent activity.
So, your discussions will appear in a different order based on which discussions are more
active in the course.
A way to get around that is to move certain discussions up to the pinned discussions area,
which will keep this one always at the top.
And then again, you can go into each one of them and edit them, get to know
the different settings here that are going to look a little bit different from the way
they are in Blackboard.
Call your instructional designer to ask about the settings if you want, that's why we're here.
So, you can go through and kind of check by category to make sure that all of your content is there.
And then as you're adding pages, you can go into the modules area if you didn't import
any of your modules, you'll create a new module.
We'll call this- start here ...and add it.
So now, I have a module with nothing in it.
Then I go to the plus sign, and I can go to pages and select content page and then here's
that page created so I can add a link to it.
And then I can go in and add, you know, whatever assignments are also supposed to go in that module.
And then, start building my module structure after that.
The other way to do it, because that is a change in your workflow from in Canvas a lot
of times will go in and create a folder, and then just start creating content from scratch
from there.
And if you still want to do it that way, you can.
The only thing is that, so here I am in my start here section, and I want to add another
content page.
You select a new page option, and then you can call it syllabus part 2, or whatever.
And it's going to put the link there and create the page.
But it's not going to have any content in it, so you'll have to click on the link,
edit the page, add the content you want and save it.
But the link will already be there.
So, if you want to create kind of an outline of your course before you really add all the
content and think about your course design and say, okay, here's module 1, I want an
objectives page, I want a readings page, and label them really well, so that you can tell
just by looking at the page title on the pages index what module it belongs to or what week
it belongs to.
You can create like a template that way and then just have placeholders and add your content
a little bit later.
Now, I want to show you the files area.
So, here's my Canvas files page.
Here's everything that came over that has I can't remember what it's called.
But the response of scrolling, so as I get toward the bottom of the page, it'll load
more files.
So, one of the nice things about the Canvas files area that Blackboard doesn't do, is
if it's an image it shows me what the image is a little thumbnail of what the image is
right here.
I don't have to click on it to go figure out what it is.
So, this might be a good opportunity since you're moving everything over anyway to
go ahead, look at your file naming structure, create a consistent file naming structure.
You can note in the file names which module those files belong to to make it easier as
you're building your modules to just pop.
Here's everything that says week one, and just pop it in there.
Another thing that you can do is, you can organize this just like you do your desktop hard drive.
And so, if I want to move something into this folder, I just drag and drop it into the folder.
And so, then you can create a really good file organization system in Canvas if you
have very, very large files, or you think you're going to get up closer to the 500
megabyte file storage limit, in your Canvas course, this might also be a good time to
consider switching to Google [Drive] for your course file management instead of doing it all in Canvas.
And again, that's totally up to you.
We'll probably offer some workshops on how to do that later on.
Or you can work one on one with an instructional designer.
Finally, I want to show you the syllabus page.
So if you remember, I chose to remove all of my dates.
So now I have an alphabetical list of everything in the course that's an assignment or graded.
And so I can go through this list, edit it, change my due dates, and then whenever I save
it, it'll assign a date to it here and as I keep going down this list, it's adding
a date to it is like checking it off my list of things that I have to go and edit and investigate.
You had asked about attaching your syllabus and what happens to your syllabus.
You have a syllabus link on your course menu, which is automatically going to structure
your... goodness, I'm losing my words - your course schedule.
Which is a really nice feature because any time you update it or add anything to it,
it's automatically going to update to this area.
So, you might choose not to include that course schedule, that typical course schedule table
that people use to outline when all their due dates are.
Or you might outline the schedule but tell students to always refer to Canvas for the
most updated dates.
And then, you have this description area at the top where you can either paste in the
content from your syllabus document, and just have your syllabus listed on that page.
Students will still be able to print it if they want.
Or, you can go into your files - I'm sure that she has her syllabus in here - yes.
Here are some syllabus documents.
So I can also just click that file and it'll paste it in there, update the syllabus, and
then students can access my big document or my big PDF file with my full syllabus and
then still have quick and easy access to this course schedule.
So, I mean and all of this is up to you.
It just completely depends on what your preferences are.
The main thing is just to be consistent and thoughtful and you know if you need any help
reach out, we're happy to help.
And here's that icon I mentioned earlier to preview the document.
Here's this Word document and it'll just open here.
So, if I do it this way, I can still read the whole syllabus right here on this page
but then still be able to scroll down and see my course summary below it.
It's a really nice tool I wish Blackboard had something like this.
Okay, so that is all of the information that I can dump on you in one breath in two hours.
Do you have any questions?
Do you want me to demonstrate anything?
Where is the student preview view?
That is a good question.
On your course menu in Canvas, go down to your settings "option" at the bottom.
And then the second option listed in your right-side bar is student view.
And I'll go ahead and click on that.
You get this like bright pink [page border] that tells you that you're in student view.
Then you can leave the student view or you can reset the student and leave the student view.
So, and there are certain things that you can't do in Canvas in your student preview,
like you can't submit Turnitin assignments but you can access all of your quizzes and
all of your content* that way. [*Content, modules, and the course must be published before those items will appear in your student view.]
One other thing I'll show you while we're on that settings page is when you look at
your course menu, you have like 900 things on this course menu that can be visible to students.
If it's rich colors and high contrasts like home and assignments and discussions, that
means students can see it.
If it's grayed or dimmed out, that means students can't see it, but you can still go there.
So, what you're also going to want to do before you open your course, is go over to
this third [settings] tab that says navigation.
And again, you can drag and drop and reorganize these items however you want.
And if you don't want students to see something, could say, well I'm not doing anything with
Respondus LockDown Browser because all my quizzes are open book.
You can just drag it down to the bottom, and then students won't be able to see it.
So when I hit save, my lockdown browser is gone.
So that's, and be very selective about what pages you show a student because it can be
overwhelming if they have access to everything.
Also, one thing... yes you can play around in Canvas and play around with your material
and ask questions and stuff.
I can be here and logged in for another half an hour to an hour.
And then, you're also, you know you're always welcome to email me or call me.
Or your own instructional designer if you have a relationship with her.
But yes, you can definitely keep messing around.
And then again, if you want to, if you decide that you want to erase everything okay, if
you decide that you do want to erase everything, the settings page is also where you'll find
the reset course content button.
And it is going to wipe, I mean it's going to wipe everything clean and reset your whole
sandbox and delete everything that was in there.
So, use that button carefully, but it is available to you.
One thing I'll tell you about these items and the importance of hiding certain things,
my fiancé is a doctoral student at another school, which also uses Canvas.
And the instructor for a course had left the files option visible and hadn't controlled
any of the permissions within the files area to limit student access to different documents.
And so they had access to every single file, and every single document in the whole course,
from the beginning of the semester including the instructor version of Power Points that
had, you know, they do like, the clicker response button.
So, it had all of the correct answers to the clicker questions in the Power Point.
So, students had access to all of that for a while until instructors figured out what
was going on and then made that area invisible to students.
So, its really, really, important to control your navigation. Be really thoughtful about it.
Okay.
We have about 5 minutes left.
It took a little bit longer than I expected it to.
We've almost used up our whole two hours.
Please feel free to stay and ask questions and talk and discuss.
I can stay here a little bit later, if you need me to.
But otherwise, you're welcome to go ahead and exit the session.
Thank-you so much for being here.
I hope that it was helpful to you.
When you close your session window, it's going to send you to an evaluation page.
Please, please, please do your evaluations, because it helps me so much to improve these
sessions for people when I get good constructive feedback.
Good, I'm glad it was helpful.
So otherwise, thanks for coming.
I'm going to go ahead and turn off the recording.
And then if you want to talk or anything after that, we'll still be able to do that.
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