You can request to have content from up to five Sakai sites migrated to Canvas at a time. If you want to have content migrated for Fall 2024 teaching, please request before August 2, 2024.
Working Guide
The most up-to-date information on the tools and data that can be migrated can be found in this working guide (view-only Google Doc).
Migration Review Video
The following video is for instructors who have already had content migrated from Sakai to Canvas, and reviews common migration issues and their solutions.
What Can Be Migrated
The following tools will be migrated:
- Assignments
- Discussions
- Gradebook
- Lessons
- Resources
- Rubrics
- Site Info
- Syllabus
- Tests & Quizzes
- Web Content (URLs)
The goal of the migration tool is to help instructors populate their Canvas course sites for upcoming courses they are teaching. Canvas is not intended to serve as an archive of previously taught courses in Sakai that are unlikely to be taught again. Additionally, some tools in Sakai contain content that is not appropriate for migration (e.g. attendance, calendar, chat, dashboard, email and the email archive, messages, overview, roster, search, section info, and statistics), and no student data will be migrated from Sakai to Canvas.
While both Sakai and Canvas are learning management systems, they think about teaching and learning differently and offer different tools. There is not 100% parity between the two systems and, therefore, there are some types of content in Sakai that will not be imported into Canvas (e.g. blogs, commons, conversations, drop box, news, podcasts, polls, PostEm and Wiki). For tools in this category, if there is content you wish to save and possibly use in Canvas, please contact Learning Innovation for a consultation and we will do our best to find an acceptable alternative for you.