[Building Sakai] Assessment Migration from Bb (WebCT) CE8 to Samigo
Nate Angell
nangell at rsmart.com
Thu Jul 26 09:58:44 PDT 2012
Yikes! That is unfortunate about Respondus and UTF-8...is it worth
reaching out directly to Respondus? Seems like they might actually
like to be able to handle this situation.
= nate
On Thu, Jul 26, 2012 at 7:11 AM, Shoji Kajita <kajita at nagoya-u.jp> 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
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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
>> >> 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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