Migrating the Content Interface using the CAR
Note
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Task
Migrate content from Blackboard which uses the Content Interface to Canvas. Starting with a Word document created by the CAR process, some (optional) modification, and then imported using word2canvas.
Includes a demonstration of how the word2canvas error labels and placeholder style can be used in conjunction with the CAR Quality Assurance process.
Video
"Chapter" list
| # | Title | Description |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Introducing the Content Interface | Showing the Content Interface in Blackboard |
| 2 | What might it look like in Canvas? | Showing a matching Canvas module |
| 3 | What it looks like in the CAR folder | Explaining the folder and Word document created by the CAR from the Content Interface in Blackboard |
| 4 | Comparing CAR Word doc and Blackboard | Showing the relationship between the Content Interface in Blackboard and the CAR Word document |
| 5 | Editing the Word doc | Figuring what doesn't need to be migrated and removing it from the Word doc - pre word2canvas conversion |
| 6 | Content Interface images as Canvas/Blackboard images | Explanation of how the CAR handles images in the Content Interface and what works with word2canvas |
| 7 | Starting the word2canvas conversion | Using word2canvas to check our changes |
| 8 | Unexpected problem with HTML - how to fix it | Fixing a problem with the original HTML (which wasn't evident in Blackboard) |
| 9 | Adding in the accordions | Turning on the H2s as accordions option |
| 10 | Understanding word2canvas messages about Content Interface images | Explain the messages word2canvas shows re: Canvas images |
| 11 | How to deal with Blackboard links? | One way to handle Blackboard links that are left in the Word doc |
| 12 | Keeping the w2c errors as placeholders | How and why to leave the w2c errors in Canvas |
| 13 | Adding additional placeholder messages | Use of the placeholder style in Word to link with the QA process |
| 14 | Adding in a Canvas discussion forum | How to modify the Word document to add a (existing) Canvas discussion to the module |
| 15 | Restarting word2canvas with modified Word doc | Second use of word2canvas to check the Word doc |
| 16 | Setting the word2canvas options and checking the module structure | Set the check html options and proceed |
| 17 | Create the module | Quick check |
| 18 | Examining the new module | Stepping through the newly created module |
| 19 | Placeholders and the Quality Assurance page | Show the connection between placeholders in Canvas and the quality assurance page |
| 20 | Checking the rest of the module | Examining the rest of the module |