[Building Sakai] Assessment Migration from Bb (WebCT) CE8 to Samigo
Mike Jennings
mike_jennings at unc.edu
Thu Jul 26 07:18:50 PDT 2012
Shoji,
Did you happen to try the bFree application to see if it will process a
extract file for you. If so I have the code I can give you and you can
modify it to try and process the Test and Quizes for you.
You can get the source code here at
http://code.google.com/p/bfree/
Mike
=============================================================================
Mike Jennings
Teaching and Learning Developer
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Office: (919) 843-5013
Cell: (919) 698-3746
E-mail: mike_jennings at unc.edu
On 7/26/2012 10:11 AM, Shoji Kajita wrote:
> 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
>
>
>
>
>
> 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
>>
>> Office: (919) 843-5013
>> Cell: (919) 698-3746
>> E-mail: mike_jennings at unc.edu
>>
>> 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
>>>> rSmart
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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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