Converter blackboard-moodle-27-5-2015

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Ruhr University, Kathrin Braungardt, May 2015

Converting Blackboard to Moodle Courses

- Converter Tool

Agenda

Background information

Conversion

Course structure / architecture

Conversion process

Tools / software

Export structures

Structure: 3 ways to export

Course design: Files, Folders, Links

Special: Embedded Media

Tests & Questions

Usage

Background information

Ruhr-University with around 40.000 students

Blackboard since 2000, ca. 15.000 courses

2nd platform Moodle since 2010, ca. 2000

courses

Conversion

Documents

Text

Links

Questions (all questions types except for quiz bowl &

calculated formula)

No user data and tools like announcements, wikis, blogs

etc.

Systems:

Blackboard 9.1 SP 14 -> Moodle 2.8.3+

Course structure / architecture

Blackboard: nested folders

Moodle: flat structure, no hierarchy

Course structure / architecture

Course structure / architecture

Course structure / architecture

Conversion process

Upload Bb package

Processing

Download Moodle

archive

Restore

Tools / Software

PHP

PclZip PHP Library

Blackboard Export structure

One main manifest-file

(imsmanifest.xml) with list of resources

and course structure

All elements /resources are desribed in

separate files

One folder with all files + resource file

folders (older system)

Moodle Export structure

Main file (moodle_backup.xml)

sections and activities

Activities as a set of description files

per activity, for example page_id,

resource_id

Files in a separate files folder,

description in files.xml for all files

Sections as a set of description files

per section

Questions described in

questions.xml

Structure: 3 ways to export

One Bb-folder -> one section

All folders and documents in one Moodle folder and in one

section

Moodle folders in sections

Structure: One folder

Structure: Folder in sections

Course design: Files

Blackboard Moodle

File File (without

description)

File (with

description)

Element (text +

files);

Multiple files

possible

File + page or label;

Multiple files:

element name or

filename as name

Course design: Folders

Blackboard Moodle

Folder Folder (with

description)

Section (with

summary);

description as label

Course design: Links

Blackboard Moodle

Links Links (with

description & files)

Link (with

description);

description per

default not displayed

Special: Embedded Media

Parse text

Identify & copy files

Tests

Blackboard Moodle

1 Multiple Choice/Multiple

Answer/Opinion Scale

Multiple Choice

2 True/False; Either/Or True/False

3 Short Answer/Essay/File Response Essay

4 Matching / Ordering Matching

5 Calculated Numeric Calculated

6 Hotspot Drag and Drop

Markers

7 Fill in the Blank Short Answer

8 Fill in Multiple Blanks / Jumbled

Sentence

Embedded answers (

Cloze)

Usage

So far internally

still Beta

Challenges: Quality insurance