Preparing Your Moodle ISU Course to Import into Canvas [Faculty]

Description

This is a guide for preparing your Moodle ISU Course to backup and import into Canvas. Use our Preparing Your Moodle ISU Course Backup for Canvas Import Checklist to track your progress.

This Guide Will Help You to:

• Identify training and support for Canvas

• Review the contents of your course

• Organize and download Moodle ISU backup course files 

Training and Support

For more information on requesting a Canvas sandbox course, Canvas training, or generalized Canvas support, visit Canvas Transition Training.

Review Your Course in Moodle ISU

If you want to work on a copy of your course, you can request a Moodle ISU development course using the Moodle ISU Special Course Request Form.

Review your course and delete any unused or duplicated items, including:

• Resources

  • Files

  • Folders

  • Videos

• Activities

  • Assignments

  • Forums

  • Quizzes

• Quiz questions

The following activities and resources will not import into Canvas correctly. For help with these activities, please make an appointment with an instructional designer.

• Book

• Board

• Glossary

• H5P

• Lessons

• Wiki

• Workshops -These can be recreated using the peer review option in an assignment or discussion.

Download all necessary videos locally onto your computer’s hard drive to move to ISU’s new video management platform, Panopto.

• Video Management with Panopto

• Add the Panopto Activity to your Course

• Add a specific Panopto Video to your course

• Move video files from Google Drive to Panopto

Run the Accessibility+ Toolkit

• Fix any known accessibility issues generated by the Accessibility+ Toolkit.

• For any questions regarding the Accessibility+ Toolkit, refer to the Accessibility+ Toolkit TigerTracks articles. 

• View the Wednesday Webinar Accessibility+ Toolkit playlist, to see how improving your Moodle ISU course accessibility can benefit your Canvas course.

Moodle ISU Backup Files

• Refer to Backing Up and Restoring a Moodle ISU Course [Faculty] to learn how to create, download, and manage Moodle ISU course backup files.

Next Steps

• For the next steps, please refer to Import Moodle ISU Content into Canvas Course [Faculty]. 

Seek Further Assistance

For additional assistance, please contact the ITRC at (208) 282-5880 or itrc@isu.edu.

For more information, see Canvas - Instructure Community: Canvas Instructor Guides.

This work was created by the Idaho State University Instructional Technology Resource Center and is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International License.