I have been trying to find information on how to convert a Canvas course to Moodle. Someone please help me. We used Canvas for 15 courses and I really don't want to have to redo them now that we are using moodle. There has to be some way to convert or import the courses, isn't there? Please help me!
Thanks!
I found this, can you reverse the instructions? How to import canvas into moodle.
http://guides.instructure.com/m/4152/l/78277-how-do-i-import-content-from-moodle-into-canvas
It looks like moodle needs this one sorted, because search is flooded moodle to canvas, and no canvas to moodle
Thanks so much for writing. You are right, there seems to be a bunch of stuff that talks about going from Moodle to Canvas, but surely there has to be some way to do the opposite. I have tried exporting the Canvas course and then importing it into Moodle, but it comes in completely empty with only the name of the course.
I don't think there is a way to do the migration process from Moodle to Canvas backward, since they are two completely different platforms with different processes.
If I can't get this solved, I will either have to recreate the entire courses (which requires hours and hours of work) or I will have to continue to use Canvas and not use Moodle, which I hate to do.
Has anyone discovered a solution to this? I'm looking at the possibility of perhaps having to recreate five or six rather large Canvas courses in Moodle and it would be wonderful if there were some Import plugin/option available.
While I have not solved the problem of needing to import an entire course, I have found a way to import the quizzes and tests. For me, this was the most important thing as I dreaded having to retype all of those questions and answers.
I am posting the link to the plugin and info...
http://www.moodlenews.com/2014/import-canvas-xml-question-exports-to-moodle-with-this-qtype-plugin/
Good luck! I am still holding out for an easy way to import the entire course content, but it is looking like that is only a dream.
Thank you so much for your reply, Kimberly, this will be a HUGE help!
I am curious to know if there have been any developments regarding converting from Canvas to Moodle. Thanks to anyone that might have an update on this!
Because of the differences between Canvas and Moodle, and the flexibility that each system provides, I think you will be better off having instructors build their moodle courses from scratch. Sorry about this. One might be able to transfer some of the question banks between the two.
Thanks Rick. Yes, I had great success migrating from Moodle to Canvas, with only minor edits. Was hopeful to find a simple way to do the reverse, so that I could bring my course edits from Canvas activities back to Moodle and save some time.
I don't know of any reverse (Canvas to Moodle) methods.
When I took courses from Moodle to Canvas, they looked pretty good. But then I had to sort out what did and didn't work, and where I would really want things to be. As I recall, Canvas put everything into modules, which was fine by me. But some faculty might want them to go elsewhere. Also, I was not sure where all of my test banks ended up. But quite honestly, it wasn't too bad.
My Canvas administrator told me that in the summer experiment of about 8 faculty using Canvas, that every faculty set up Canvas differently!
Thanks Rick. I will keep researching this and post anything I find or test.
