transition from moodle to blackboard

Is there a blackboard content conversion tool for Moodle?

Jun 01, 2012 · Re: Transition to Moodle from Blackboard by Man Tritsi - Sunday, 3 June 2012, 6:16 PM Thank you Russel for the advice, I already posted to the Advocacy forum and I will search also for older posts.

Is it possible to import question pools from Blackboard to Moodle?

For Moodle 1.4.x Blackboard content conversion tool is available. It was designed to migrate Blackboard 6.1 to Moodle 1.4+ - it may be possible to make it work with other versions. According to Michael Penney in the forum discussion Migrating 10000 students from Blackboard to Moodle? "It works pretty well with a couple of caveats:

Do I need blackboard content conversion tool (CCT)?

Jan 15, 2015 · I was part of the great Bb to Moodle transition at the University of Canterbury. My basic approach: Ignore Bb. Introduce the basic concepts of Moodle (Course, section, members, activity, resource, editing on etc), then move on to there. Find a few workflows that suit the needs of your audience, and work on them in Moodle.

How do I create a new course from a backup course?

Online teaching and learning has been in transition for its entire existence. The number of courses offered at a distance has grown rapidly. According to the National Center for Education Statistics (Waits & Lewis, 2003), in 2000-2001 more than 56% of four-year colleges and universities in the United States offered distance education degree programs.

Standard Blackboard

Moodle 1.9 (NOT SUPPORTED IN 2.x YET) has a restore function built into the standard backup/restore process which will restore Blackboard Archive/Export files with mixed results

Moodle Course Restore

From Moodle 1.5- 1.9, (Not yet supported in 2.0) Moodle's "course restore" facility can import courses from Blackboard 5.5 and 6.0 -- you have to use the 'export' facility in BB to get the files in the correct format from BB. For question pools, there is a dedicated import facility in the Quiz Module.