Canvas sites are in place for the Spring 2024 semester. As with previous semesters, campus has provided all instructors with automated copies of Sakai content from their 2023 Spring Sakai sites in special Canvas archive sites.
You can now log into Canvas to find your migrated content. You’ll see a separate Canvas site for each course you taught in Sakai last spring. They will be labeled, for example “DEPT101.001.SP23_SAKAI_Archive”. It will contain a copy of all the files, pages, assessments, etc., from your corresponding 2023 Sakai site.
Review the content and do any necessary clean-up. It will NOT be 100% ready to use as-is, especially for Sakai sites that used the Lessons tool, and the clean-up may be significant for some courses. Then you will be able to import it into your official Spring 2024 Canvas site for use in teaching.
This page provides a series of videos that walks you through the process of using that migrated content. You’ll need to:
- Find your imported content in Canvas
- Review it and determine what content you want to use
- Import that content into your official Canvas site
- Clean up any problems you find
Remember you can also Schedule a Canvas consult with us if you have any questions.
How To Find and Review Your Automatically Migrated Content in Canvas
This demo video shows how to find the automatically migrated content from Sakai in Canvas, which tools have content that will copy over, and how to review the content.
How To Import Your Migrated Content into Your Official Canvas Site
This demo video shows how to import any migrated content you want to use from the migrated content archive site in Canvas into your official Canvas site for teaching. Also shows how to import Course Reserves and Panopto videos, which have to be done separately from the Sakai migrated content.
How To Review Migrated Content in Canvas Files (from Sakai Resources)
This demo video shows how to review automatically migrated content from Sakai Resources into Canvas Files. Shows some basic clean-up steps in Files, but also demonstrates how to build a Modules structure in Canvas from the migrated Resources. Modules supports all the functionality from Resources and represents a better option for sharing content in Canvas.
This video applies only to courses using the Resources tool in Sakai to share content with students, NOT the Lessons tool.
How To Review Migrated Content in Canvas Modules (from Sakai Lessons)
This demo video shows how to review and clean up automatically migrated content from Sakai Lessons into Canvas Modules. Also discusses the role of Files and Pages with Modules content and how to hide those tools. Finally, shows how to replace embedded Panopto video from Sakai with new Canvas Panopto embeds.
How To Review Migrated Content in Canvas Assignments, Quizzes, and Discussions
This demo video shows how to review your migrated Assignments, Quizzes, and Discussions in Canvas, some issues that might need fixing, and how to reproduce Sakai Gradebook categories and weighting as Canvas Assignment Groups.
