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CE 6 Course Migration Guide
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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.