Blackboard to Canvas Migration
Exporting Content from Blackboard
- Navigate to the Blackboard course that you wish to export.
- Under the Course Management menu on the bottom left-hand side of your screen, expand the Packages and Utilities menu.
- Click Export/Archive Course.
- Click Export Package.
- Select the content you'd like to export to Canvas.
- Click Submit at the bottom of the page.
- Blackboard will create your Export Package.
- This may take up to several minutes; you’ll receive an email when it’s done.
- Or, you can click Refresh and the zip file will appear when ready.
- Download your Export Package. Do not unzip the file.
Please note that the following items cannot be migrated from Blackboard to Canvas: Announcements, Rubrics, Customized Course Menus, Wikis, Blogs, Journals, Tasks
Importing Content into Canvas
- Email ithelp@clemson.edu and ask them to create a blank course shell (tell them what you’d like it to be named). You’re preparing a blank place in which to deposit the course you just downloaded from Blackboard, so you should choose a name that correlates to your Blackboard course.
- Click on the new blank course once it’s created.
- Then, click Settings on the Course Navigation Menu.
- Select Import Content into this Course (located on the right-hand side of the page).
- Select Blackboard 6/7/8/9 export .zip file from the drop-down menu
- Use your computer's navigation to select the appropriate file from your computer (probably in the Downloads menu).
- Click All Content (since you already chose what content to export when you created the Blackboard export file), and ignore the checkboxes under Options.
- Click Import and let Canvas do the rest!