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Ethnobotany field final

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Starting off at the northeast corner where we started with Premna obtusifolia. We headed west through to Palhinhaea cernua From there we made a jog to the south for Ocimum tenuiflorum and Jasminum sambac. Ocimim tenuiflorum  Jasminum sambac  En route Heading past the LRC The long tail trailing behind the mad hatter, the Pied Piper of the college. Centella asiatica Writing box solving the field writing challenge by thinking on the outside of the box. Literally. Kerry "KC" with the box. The final is always an honor system event. Not sure what sense this really makes in an age where Google Gemini and Google Lens can identify plants and pull up uses. That said  the students are generally respectful of the guidelines, seen here keeping their answer sheets to themselves. I headed directly from the Centella asiatica to the Cymbopogon cit...
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From Canvas to Moodle

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Migration  There is no option to migrate from Instructure Canvas to Moodle by exporting courses from Canvas and importing those courses into Moodle. Canvas exports courses as Instructional Management Systems Common Cartridge version 1.1 files. Moodle only imports IMS Common Cartridge 1.0 files. The versions are incompatible and as far as this author is aware there are no converters between the versions.  IMSCC 1.0 is a 2008 standard and IMSCC 1.1 dates back to 2011 or earlier. In other words, both versions are out of date. The current version is IMSCC 1.3 and IMSCC 1.4 is under development. Neither Instructure nor Moodle appear to be working on code to handle any newer IMS CC version. The inability to easily move courses between learning management systems benefits vendor lock in.  As a result, migration is a heavy lift manual process of rebuilding element-by-element from a blank sheet. Or one can pay a third party significant sums of money to handle the migration. T...
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