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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 In other words, both versions are out of date.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...

Site swap notation

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My morning prep and arrival was delayed by messaging involving the LMS transition. I arrived on a cold open. As seems to so often be the the case for a cold open, I went in a new direction. I did not the use the math stack open as that just didn't feel right this term. Nor did I just open with the site swap diagrams. As seen above  I went for a more meta approach to what it means to be quantitatively literate. I went with the usual diagrams, but I did some downstream gap projections that I then circled back to when showing that one could count sites to mathematically extrapolate the pattern. Fumie-Kate dropped the shatter ball, much to her surprise. Sheral assists. Emylia ties juggling. Successfully reassembled! Sucie juggling. Delailah three ball site swap 3 Kapualani works on juggling while sitting. Gabby Darla and Gabby Sucie with three balls. ...