Howdy, neighbor! You have found our Summer 2023 blog series on making the transition from Sakai to Canvas.Throughout this series, our goal is to break down the major elements involved in switching o
ver to Canvas, the University’s Learning Management System. In this third blog of the series, we talk about unpacking your migrated courses by identifying where you can find your sites and content. For a more in depth explanation of the migration process, be sure to go back and read our first two installations in this series. As a reminder, one iteration of all 2022 courses and all Spring 2023 courses are in Canvas already with course names appended with SAKAI_Archive. You can locate these courses using the steps below.
Where is everything?
Now that your content is all migrated into Canvas, you need to be able to locate the content.
1. Log into Canvas
a. Navigate to canvas.unc.edu and select the Onyen Login button to sign into Canvas
2. Find your Course Site
a. To find your course site, locate the Courses menu item denoted by the book icon. From there, you will find an ‘All Courses’ link. Select the link and you will see all of your courses. The favorite link denoted by the star on the left hand side will add that site as a card to your Dashboard and remove any sites that have not been favorited.
3. Locate your Content
a. Depending on the setup of your Sakai site, you can try to locate content by selecting tabs such as Files or Modules from the menu of options on the left side of your screen. Note that if you were a consistent user of the Lesson feature in Sakai, it will be best to start to unpack via the Modules tab.
Is anything broken?
Utilize the link validator to ensure that all the links in your course are working. If you are using external tools, these activities will need to be re-configured. If the external tool’s activities made it over in migration, those links will be broken. Reconfiguration will depend on the external tool. We’ve provided some information on external tool integrations in Canvas via our FAQ page.
Student View
Once your course is ready to go, you may wonder what it will look like for your students. Located in the top, right, corner, there is a button that you can use to launch Student View. Student View should verify the elements of the course students can or cannot see throughout the site.
Moving To Do List
- Know where your content is located
- Ensure all the content that has been migrated works for your students
- To determine what to migrate, check out our first post of this series
- For help thinking through your migration options, take a look at our second post of this series