Guides to help transition from Moodle ISU to ISU Canvas.

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Pinned Article Packing Up & Transitioning Your Moodle ISU Course to ISU Canvas for Faculty

This is a guide for preparing your Moodle ISU Course to backup and import into Canvas. Use the Packing Up Your Course for ISU Canvas Checklist for Faculty to track your progress.

Creating and Transferring Rubrics from Moodle ISU to ISU Canvas for Faculty

As an instructor, you can create, edit, and delete rubrics in your ISU Canvas course. Rubrics are used as grading criteria for students and can be added to assignments, quizzes, and graded discussions.

Deleting Unused Questions from the Question Bank in Moodle ISU for Faculty

Deleting unused questions in your Moodle ISU course before you create a backup will make your import into ISU Canvas go more smoothly. It will also ensure that you are not importing extra items that will take up your course storage space.

H5P Options in ISU Canvas for Faculty

Alternatives for the H5P activities that are not available in ISU Canvas.

Importing Content into a New Moodle ISU Course for Faculty

The Import function allows course content to be moved from one course to another within the same instance of Moodle.

Importing Moodle ISU Content into ISU Canvas for Faculty

The Import function allows course content to be imported from a Moodle ISU course backup to and ISU Canvas course. User data (student files), manually added calendar events, and topic headings (summaries) will not be imported using this function.

Moodle ISU Choice Options in ISU Canvas for Faculty

Choice activities from Moodle ISU will import into ISU Canvas as unpublished, ungraded Surveys with the question and the options becoming a multiple-choice question.

Moodle ISU Feedback Options in ISU Canvas for Faculty

The equivalent to the Moodle ISU Feedback activity is a Survey in ISU Canvas. Surveys can be used to receive feedback from students or to give extra points for responding to a survey.

Moodle ISU Lesson Options in ISU Canvas for Faculty

Options available in Canvas for replacing the Moodle Lesson Activity.

Moodle ISU Wiki Options in ISU Canvas for Faculty

Canvas does not have a Wiki tool, but there are a few options to achieve the same goal.

Moodle ISU Workshop Options in ISU Canvas for Faculty

Options in ISU Canvas for replacing the Moodle ISU Workshop activity.

Question Bank Visual Reference in Moodle ISU and ISU Canvas for Faculty

This document is meant to provide a visual reference, displaying the layout and functionality of the question banks in both Moodle ISU and ISU Canvas.

Reducing the Course File Size from Moodle ISU to ISU Canvas

Lists options for reducing Moodle ISU course backup file size.

Request a Temporary Course in Moodle ISU for Faculty

A Temporary (TEMP) course is necessary so faculty can make needed changes to a course in Moodle before moving the course to Canvas.