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CE 6 Course Migration Guide What happened to my . . .?
Home Page
Becomes: Home Page
Details:
- Organizer pages migrated.
- If upper and lower textblocks were added to an organizer page, they migrated and are called headers and footers, respectively.
- If banner text was added to an organizer page, it migrated and is now part of the header.
- If custom icons were used in your course, the icons migrated.
- Column layout migrated.
- Links to content items, such as quizzes, migrated.
- If selective release criteria were set on a link to a content item, the link is hidden from Students (the word Hidden appears next to the link).
- In CE 6, selective release criteria are now set on a content item, not on a link to the item. Because of this, release criteria did not migrate.
- Links to tools are now on the course menu, under Course Tools, instead of on organizer pages.
- In CE 6, if you want, in a folder or learning module, you can add links to specific content items, such as a specific assignment.
- If selective release criteria were set on a link to a tool, the tool is hidden from Students on the course menu (the letter H appears next to the tool name).
- If none of the links on an organizer page migrated, the organizer page did not migrate. For example, if an organizer page contained links to the Calendar and Index tools, neither of which can be linked to an organizer page, the organizer page did not migrate.
Organizer Pages
Become: Folders
See Home Page for details.
Assignments Tool
Becomes: Assignments tool
Details:
- All assignments migrated and the Assignments tool was added to the course menu, under Course Tools.
Calendar Tool
Becomes: Calendar tool
Details:
- The Calendar tool was added to the course menu, under Course Tools.
Chat Tool
Becomes: Chat tool
Details:
- All general purpose chat rooms migrated and the Chat tool was added to the course menu, under Course Tools.
- In CE 6, in a folder or learning module, you can add links to a specific Chat room.
- In CE 6, you can create as many chat rooms as you wish for specific chats.
Whiteboard Tool
Becomes: Chat tool
Details:
- The Whiteboard tool is now integrated with the Chat tool.
- The Whiteboard migrated and is a room titled Whiteboard in the Chat tool.
- The Chat tool was added to the course menu, under Course Tools.
Content Module
Becomes: Learning Module
Details:
- All content modules, including all content in the table of contents, migrated and the Learning Module tool was added to the course menu, under Course Tools.
- Links from an organizer page to a content module migrated.
- If there were Glossary keyword links in pages of content, these links migrated.
- If there were action menu links in a content module, these links migrated:
- To access links to files, and audio and video clips, click the File link.
- To access links to quizzes and self tests, click the Assessments link.
- To access links to URL-type links, click the Web Links link.
- To access the glossary, click the Media Library Collection link.
Discussion Tool
Becomes: Discussion Tool
Details:
- All discussion topics migrated and the Discussions tool was added to the course menu, under Course Tools.
- If the discussion topic contained messages, the message text from the first message in the topic is now the topic description.
- If there was a link from an organizer page to a specific discussion topic, the link migrated.
Glossary Tool & Image Database
Become: Media Library Tool
Details:
- Each Glossary entry migrated and is an entry in a Media Library collection entitled Glossary.
- The Media Library tool was added to the course menu, under Course Tools.
- Links from an organizer page to the Glossary tool migrated and are now lings to the Glossary collection.
Mail Tool
Becomes: Mail Tool
Details:
- The Mail tool was added to the course menu, under Course Tools.
Manage Files
Becomes: File Manager
Details:
- All folders and files migrated.
- The File Manager tool is on the course menu under Designer Tools.
My Grades Tool
Becomes: My Grades Tool
Details:
- The My Grades tool was added to the Student tab, under My Tools.
My Progress Tool
Becomes: My Progress Tool
Details:
- The My Progress tool was added to the Student tab, under My Tools.
Question Database
Becomes: Question Database
Details:
- All questions and question categories migrated and can be accessed from the Question Database in the Assessments tool.
- The Assessments tool was added to the course menu, under Course Tools.
Quizzes/Surveys Tool
Becomes: Assessments Tool
Details:
- All quizzes and surveys migrated and can be accessed from the Assessments tool.
- The Assessments tool was added to the course menu, under Course Tools.
- All questions in a quiz or survey migrated and were added to the Question Database.
- Links from an organizer page to a specific quiz or survey migrated.
- If there was a link from an organizer page to a specific subset of quizzes and surveys, a folder (organizer page) was created that contains links to those quizzes and surveys.
Search utility
Becomes: Search Tool
Details: The Search tool was added to the course menu, under Course Tools.
Single Pages
Become: Files in the File Manger
Details:
- Single pages migrated.
- Links from an organizer page to a single page migrated.
Student Homepage Tool and Student Presentations Tool
Become: An assignment in the Assignment Tool
Details:
- The content of each of these tools is migrated and is now an assignment in the assignments tool called either Student Home Pages or Student Presentations.
- For the Student Presentations assignment, all group names and descriptions were migrated to the new Group Manager tool. This tool was added to course menu on the Teach tab, under instructor tools.
- Links from an organizer page to either Student Home Pages or Student Presentations were migrated. These links now go to the respective assignment.
URL's
Become: Web Links Tool
Details:
- URLs migrated and can be accessed from the Web Links tool.
- The Web Links tool was added to the course menu, under Course Tools.
- Links from an organizer page to a URL migrated.