[Using Sakai] migrate from angel to sakai?

[Sam Ottenhoff]

Hi Steve,

I have seen two different export formats from Angel:

  1) IMS-CC format (imsmanifest.xml in root directory)

This format appears to export all relevant items from a course site as 
"webcontent".  This means that all relevant information from various 
tools (Announcements, Assignments, etc) gets imported to Sakai's 
Resources tool.

Sakai can import this package with a few modifications to the existing 
blackboard_6 (extending the common cartridge code) parser code.  I would 
be glad to send over these modifications if this kind of import is helpful.

I have seen IMS-QTI files included in this package, but the 
imsmanifest.xml does not indicate that these files are intended for 
Tests & Quizzes (they are marked as "webcontent" also).

You can find the IMS-QTI files on a *nix machine like this:

  find ./ -name \*.xml|xargs grep questestinterop

Once found, you should be able to import these IMS-QTI files directly 
into Tests & Quizzes.

  2) Angel XML format (angelData.xml in root directory)

This XPath expression on angelData.xml should provide you links to the 
relevant Angel assessment XML files:

  /clldata/Assessments/Assessment/@href

Note that this format appears to be serialized data from the database.  
However, in these XML files, you can do a search for :
  
   <field name="_qtiXml">

The contents of those fields should provide a fairly straightforward 
pathway to bringing the content into a new system like Sakai.

--Sam



Steve Jensen wrote:
> Yup, we've been there and done that Nate.
>
> Unfortunately, there doesn't seem to be an easy way to get quiz/question 
> info *out* of Angel.  I'm halfway hoping that someone has written some 
> scripts that will read the db and generate appropriate XML files.
>
> Steve
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> Nate Angell wrote:
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>> Steve: As you probably know, migration as a whole from any platform to  
>> any other rarely has a simple, one-size-fits all answer.
>>
>> The good news about exams is that if you can get exams out of Angel in  
>> a standard format (eg, QTI), you can bring them into Sakai without  
>> trouble. Sometimes some intermediary processing in a tool like  
>> Respondus can help.
>>
>> When we work with clients on migration, we help them develop a roadmap  
>> based on example courses in actual use in their current platform,  
>> mapped to migration paths to Sakai. I think that's a good model to  
>> follow whatever your move will be.
>>
>> --
>> Nate Angell
>> Client Evangelist
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>> On Nov 3, 2009, at 8:44 AM, Steve Jensen wrote:
>>
>>     
>>> Has anyone actually migrated from Angel (7.3?) to Sakai?
>>>
>>> If so, what was your process? How much of your content (esp. exams!)  
>>> was
>>> able to come over without major effort?
>>>
>>> Any documentation out there on it?
>>>
>>> Thanks!
>>>
>>> Steve
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