Blackboard import
From Dokeos
Roan has developed a Blackboard import tool for Blackboard 5.5 for the Vrije Universiteit Brussel. The Hogeschool Gent uses version 6 of Blackboard and there are some differences in both export-formats, so they developed a new tool for importing Blackboard courses. This development isn't available in the official Dokeos (yet).
Also see: forum thread
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Blackboard-items
Advalvas
Messages posted by course-admin in Blackboard are imported in the Advalvas-module of Dokeos.
Links
Links from Blackboard are added to the Link-module in Dokeos. In BB it is possible to create categories with subcategories. In Dokeos you can't create subcategories inside an existing category. So when importing a link from BB in the category category > subcategory a new category named category - subcategory will be created in the Dokeos links module.
Agenda
Agenda-items are imported in the Agenda-module of Dokeos.
Documents
There's an important difference of a document in BB and a document in Dokeos. A BB-document has
- a title
- a description (HTML or text)
- zero or more files
A document in Dokeos has
- a file
- a description
At this moment following rules are used:
- All files of a BB-document are imported in the Document-module of Dokeos with the title as description.
- A BB-document without any files: a HTML-page is created with the BB-description as the content and the BB-title as filename.
TODO: Unzip so-called pakage-files (A set of HTML-pages packed in one zip-file with an antrypoint (startpage))
Forum
Our version of Blackboard (6.2.3.6) only exports the first topics of every forum. So there's nothing more to import in the Forum-module of Dokeos.
Staff information
In Blackboard a course can contain some staff-information. Current BBImport-tool copies this information in the course-description module of dokeos. Problem: Where should we store the images?
