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Ruhr University, Kathrin Braungardt, May 2015
Converting Blackboard to Moodle Courses
- Converter Tool
Agenda
Background information
Conversion
Course structure / architecture
Conversion process
Tools / software
Export structures
Structure: 3 ways to export
Course design: Files, Folders, Links
Special: Embedded Media
Tests & Questions
Usage
Background information
Ruhr-University with around 40.000 students
Blackboard since 2000, ca. 15.000 courses
2nd platform Moodle since 2010, ca. 2000
courses
Conversion
Documents
Text
Links
Questions (all questions types except for quiz bowl &
calculated formula)
No user data and tools like announcements, wikis, blogs
etc.
Systems:
Blackboard 9.1 SP 14 -> Moodle 2.8.3+
Course structure / architecture
Blackboard: nested folders
Moodle: flat structure, no hierarchy
Course structure / architecture
Course structure / architecture
Course structure / architecture
Conversion process
Upload Bb package
Processing
Download Moodle
archive
Restore
Tools / Software
PHP
PclZip PHP Library
Blackboard Export structure
One main manifest-file
(imsmanifest.xml) with list of resources
and course structure
All elements /resources are desribed in
separate files
One folder with all files + resource file
folders (older system)
Moodle Export structure
Main file (moodle_backup.xml)
sections and activities
Activities as a set of description files
per activity, for example page_id,
resource_id
Files in a separate files folder,
description in files.xml for all files
Sections as a set of description files
per section
Questions described in
questions.xml
Structure: 3 ways to export
One Bb-folder -> one section
All folders and documents in one Moodle folder and in one
section
Moodle folders in sections
Structure: One folder
Structure: Folder in sections
Course design: Files
Blackboard Moodle
File File (without
description)
File (with
description)
Element (text +
files);
Multiple files
possible
File + page or label;
Multiple files:
element name or
filename as name
Course design: Folders
Blackboard Moodle
Folder Folder (with
description)
Section (with
summary);
description as label
Course design: Links
Blackboard Moodle
Links Links (with
description & files)
Link (with
description);
description per
default not displayed
Special: Embedded Media
Parse text
Identify & copy files
Tests
Blackboard Moodle
1 Multiple Choice/Multiple
Answer/Opinion Scale
Multiple Choice
2 True/False; Either/Or True/False
3 Short Answer/Essay/File Response Essay
4 Matching / Ordering Matching
5 Calculated Numeric Calculated
6 Hotspot Drag and Drop
Markers
7 Fill in the Blank Short Answer
8 Fill in Multiple Blanks / Jumbled
Sentence
Embedded answers (
Cloze)
Usage
So far internally
still Beta
Challenges: Quality insurance
