[Building Sakai] Migration From Blackboard 8 to Sakai

Wed Nov 2 08:05:25 PDT 2011

Nguni,

We were also using Respondus to migrate assessment questions from
Blackboard to Sakai until I developed two html/javascript files which
displayed the assessments from the exported Blackboard 6 zip file which
was unzipped.  I'd be willing to share with anyone who is interested.

I'd be willing to put it on the Sakai Wiki but am unsure the proper
location.  I did find
https://confluence.sakaiproject.org/display/PROD/Blackboard+Migration, but
not sure if there is a better place.

Thank you,

Louis

On 11/2/11 6:33 AM, "Nonkululeko Phakela" <Nonkululeko.Phakela at wits.ac.za>
wrote:

>Hi Beith,
>
>Thank you very much for the response. This is helpful. I have never used
>respondus before but this tool is available for us. What was the process
>that you followed in order to get the questions from webct to respondus
>to sakai. 
>
>Kind Regards,
>Nguni
>
>-----Original Message-----
>From: Beith, Linda [mailto:lbeith at rwu.edu]
>Sent: Wednesday, November 02, 2011 2:48 PM
>To: Nonkululeko Phakela
>Cc: sakai-dev at collab.sakaiproject.org
>Subject: RE: Migration From Blackboard 8 to Sakai
>
>Hi Nguni,
>Although we were able to export a lot of content from Blackboard 8 to
>Sakai using North Carolina's Bfree tool, this did not include tests and
>quizzes. We purchased a site license from Respondus to accomplish this
>which worked out well. We gave instructions to faculty on how to do this
>themselves and held workshops on the process but we also offered the
>option to faculty to have my team take care of this for them. I'm
>attaching the handout we created on the easiest way to do this (note that
>Bridges is our rebranding of Sakai). Once you get into it, the process
>actually is pretty fast.
>
>Please feel free to contact me if you have any questions about this.
>Linda
>
>-----Original Message-----
>From: Nkululeko Phakela [mailto:nonkululeko.phakela at wits.ac.za]
>Sent: Wednesday, November 02, 2011 5:01 AM
>To: Beith, Linda
>Cc: sakai-dev at collab.sakaiproject.org
>Subject: Migration From Blackboard 8 to Sakai
>
>Hi Beith,
>
>I noticed in the email archives that you were migrating content from
>Blackboard 8 to sakai. I'm currently trying to export assessments from
>there to Sakai Test & Quizzes. How were you able to accomplish this?
>
>Regards,
>Nguni
>
>--
>Nkululeko Phakela
>Software Developer
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