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

[Shoji Kajita]

Hi Mike, Nguni and Nate,

Thank you for your additional comments for the use of Respondus.

I had tried but unfortunately Respondus itself didn't work for
Japanese tests and quizzes. Respondus is NOT UTF-8 transparent so that
Japanese characters are squished like the attached screenshot.

I think that it is time to enjoy the XML hell to translate IMS QTI
files exported from WebCT CE8 in order to import them by using Samigo
importer.

Shoji

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At Wed, 25 Jul 2012 09:43:35 -0400,
Mike Jennings wrote:
> 
> 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
> 
> ==============================================================================
> Mike Jennings
> Teaching and Learning Developer
> 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
> >> Sakai Product Manager
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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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