FAQs - When...
What is the overall timeline for this project?
When will we start teaching on Canvas?
What is the time commitment expected from academics and teachers during course migration?
When will we get access to Canvas to explore and play?
We aim to have a staff sandpit available around July 2022, but this timing is still to be confirmed. It depends on getting Canvas configured to how we want it, including important tool integrations. As soon as our Canvas environment looks and feels and works close enough to how it will be in the final version, then we will open the sandpit and let everyone know.
- The Learning Platform Project will run for approximately 18 months from April 2022. The first six months of the project will be focussed on the technical integration, set-up, and testing of Canvas in our environment.
- This migration of courses from Blackboard to Canvas will begin in June 2022 with the Trimester 3 2022 courses, and it will continue following the trimester cycle until all courses are in Canvas. The project will close in late 2023 once all courses are up running in Canvas.
- Here is an illustration of the high-level timeline.
When will we start teaching on Canvas?
- Trimester 3 2022 will be the first trimester of teaching in Canvas.
- For those staff who are not teaching in Trimester 3 this year, the first trimester of teaching on Canvas will be Trimester 1 or 2 in 2023.
- There will be a very small number of non-standard courses that start in Blackboard before Trimester 3 2022 and finish during or after Trimester 3. These courses will continue in Blackboard until they finish to avoid disruption to current students, but the next instance will start in Canvas.
What is the time commitment expected from academics and teachers during course migration?
- How much of your time is needed will depend on the complexity in your course, and how much of your input is required to get it configured to take advantage of the new tools and features in Canvas. If there are other changes or course development work you wanted to do anyway, then this is a good opportunity to look at that too while the Faculty Learning and Teaching Advisor (FLATA) resource is available.
- A higher level of configuration will take an estimated eight hours of your time working with a FLATA to ensure that the course looks good, flows nicely, and takes full advantage of the new tools and functionality.
- A minimum “lift and shift” migration would still require an estimated three hours of your time to ensure that everything comes across, functions properly, and that you are able to use it.
- These time estimates include some one-on-one user training.
When will we get access to Canvas to explore and play?
We aim to have a staff sandpit available around July 2022, but this timing is still to be confirmed. It depends on getting Canvas configured to how we want it, including important tool integrations. As soon as our Canvas environment looks and feels and works close enough to how it will be in the final version, then we will open the sandpit and let everyone know.