[Building Sakai] Assessment Migration from Bb (WebCT) CE8 to Samigo

[Mike Jennings]

Shoji,

Currently the bFree tool will not allow you to migrate Test and Quizes. 
  Here at UNC we use the bFree tool to migrate the Course Documents over 
to Sakai.

To get test and quizzes migrated over, we are also using the Respondus 
tool to do this.  We have a full time person who does this migration for 
users currently.

I have also created a tool, which is the UGLIEST Sakai Tool ever 
created, that will read in the Blackboard Extract file and then move the 
documents to a courses resources folder.  This tool uses the bFree code 
to extract and parse the Blackboard Migration File.  I would be happy to 
share it with you, but I am very ashamed of it :D

Mike

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University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

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On 7/25/2012 2:48 AM, Nkululeko Phakela wrote:
> Hi Shoji,
>
> We here at Wits were doing the same thing, and we used Respondus, and it
> worked out very well for us.
>
> I think that you will find it makes the process very easy.
>
> Kind Regards,
> Nguni
>
> On 25 Jul 2012, at 12:57 AM, Nate Angell wrote:
>
>> Shoji:
>>
>> IIRC, WebCT/Bb changed formats in the move to CE 8 in a way that makes
>> them less open to parsing (eg, using bfree). You may need to try
>> something like connecting a tool like Respondus to CE 8 and Sakai CLE
>> and using it to migrate assessments.
>>
>> --
>> Nate Angell
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>> On Tue, Jul 24, 2012 at 1:52 PM, Shoji Kajita <kajita at nagoya-u.jp
>> <mailto:kajita at nagoya-u.jp>> wrote:
>>
>>     Hi Steve,
>>
>>     Thank you for your suggestion!
>>
>>     I will take a look and verify whether it works or not for CE8 very
>>     soon.
>>
>>     Best regards,
>>     Shoji
>>     ---
>>     Shoji Kajita
>>     IT Planning Office, IIMC
>>     Kyoto University
>>
>>     At Tue, 24 Jul 2012 09:10:18 +1000,
>>     Steve Swinsburg wrote:
>>     >
>>     > Hi Shoji,
>>     >
>>     > UNC have bFree, which is a converter for Blackboard content:
>>     > http://its2.unc.edu/tl/tli/bFree/
>>     >
>>     > Not sure if it does quiz exports though.
>>     >
>>     > I've cc'd Mike Jennings.
>>     >
>>     > cheers,
>>     > Steve
>>     >
>>     > On 23/07/2012, at 11:07 PM, Shoji Kajita wrote:
>>     >
>>     > > Dear Sakai Developers,
>>     > >
>>     > > At Kyoto University, we are now in the preparation of
>>     migration from
>>     > > Bb (WebCT) CE8 to Sakai 2-9-x.
>>     > >
>>     > > Most of courses required for migration include assessments so
>>     that we
>>     > > have been trying to use the Samigo importer based on IMS QTI
>>     > > 1.2.
>>     > >
>>     > > Unfortunately, however, the exported files from CE8 cannot be
>>     imported
>>     > > by Samigo importer right now.
>>     > >
>>     > > Does anybody have experiences to import IMS QTI 1.2 files exported
>>     > > from WebCT CE8?
>>     > >
>>     > > As far as I searched, I could not find any exact information
>>     on it. I
>>     > > think that IMS QTI 1.2 is not strict so that we probably need
>>     to fix
>>     > > some XMLs exported from CE8.
>>     > >
>>     > > We are very welcome for any suggestions, comments and references.
>>     > >
>>     > > Best regards,
>>     > > Shoji Kajita
>>     > > Kyoto University
>>     > > Japan
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