cuLearn (Moodle) to Brightspace Tool Crosswalk

These are used to collect, assess and provide feedback on file submissions, including text, document and cuPortfolio submissions.

• Assignments transfer to Brightspace with their description and date settings.
• Brightspace Assignments allow for a variety of submission types: including online text, file submission, video submission, and Mahara submission. 

• Assignment settings should be reviewed to ensure proper setup. 
• cuPortfolio submissions: Students can submit links to their cuPortfolio via a regular assignment submission. When creating an assignment, under Submission & Completion, select Submission Type: Text submission.  
•  Additional resource: Creating an assignment  (1:39) 

BigBlueButton is a web- conferencing tool used to  host lectures or office hours. 

• BigBlueButton links, meetings, and recordings do not migrate* 

• BBB links will have to be recreated
• See instructions with screenshots below.  

CuLearn Books are a series of pages with chapters/sub-chapters to present information to students. 

• Does not migrate; no equivalent tool in Brightspace 
• All of the content will transfer and appear in a sub-module in Brightspace.  
• All items will remain from the book, but the pages will be reordered in Brightspace.  

• See example below.  

• There is no direct equivalent to Books. 
• Depending on your content and how you wish to organize it, you could the book pages in separate files, as they have imported. The topics and submodules will need to be reordered.  
• Alternatively, create a file in Brightspace to organize multiple pages together. Use the HTML editor to change the font and add videos and use HTML Templates to add accordions, tabs and other organizational elements.  
• Manually reorder the content pages or create sub-modules. 

This tool allows students to vote or choose between subjects. 

• Does not migrate; no equivalent tool in Brightspace* 

• There is no direct equivalent to the choice tool.  
• Try using the Survey tool or Poll Everywhere. 

This tool allows the teacher and/or students to build, display and search a bank of record entries about any topic. 

• Does not migrate; no equivalent tool in Brightspace 

• There is no direct equivalent to Databases.  
• Creating a discussion forum is the closest equivalent to Databases in Brightspace. Students can interact with each other in similar ways on a Discussion Forum in Brightspace as with a Database.
• NOTE: If Discussions do not align with your use case for the Database tool, please reach out directly to TLS to find a solution that will work. 

This is used to embed external tools such as  textbook publishers’ content or Poll Everywhere content.

• External tools and tool contents do not migrate* 

• Publisher’s content and Poll Everywhere links can be re-inserted using the External Tools link in Brightspace

Files are used to upload file content for student viewing. 

• Files embed in Brightspace and open in a new page.

• Minimal changes may be required to fix font formatting.

• Additional resource: Uploading Files and Adding them as Content Topics  

Feedback is a survey tool used to get information from students, such as a midterm course review or end of course evaluation. 

• Does not migrate feedback surveys

• Create a survey in Brightspace. 

Forums are used to host discussions online for shared text based conversations between instructors, TAs and students. 

• Forums in cuLearn migrate into Brightspace but cause redundancies. In Brightspace, the word forum refers to a category or group of discussion topics. You must have a forum before you can add a discussion topic (i.e. the site for the posts and replies to appear.)
  
• Forum grading/gradebook association does not transfer to Brightspace and will need to be re-linked

• Access Discussions from Course Admin, delete any Discussions that have been imported without Description content. Review Forums and Discussions in Brightspace to remove redundancies.
• Re-link the Discussion to the associated grade item in the gradebook

• Additional resource: Introduction to the Discussion tool 

The Gradebook is the place designed for an overview of the course evaluation items along with their weights and value. 

• Basic gradebook items transfer. All grade items and categories should be reviewed to ensure all settings transferred.

• See example below. 

• Grades in Brightspace is the equivalent of Gradebook.  

• Additional resources: Creating and using your grade book 

• Grades Tool playlist 

Works with the groups function in cuLearn; allows students to select into groups or to create their own groups. 

• Group self-selection tool does not migrate*

• Group self selections will need to be set up in Brightspace Groups page.

• Group self enrollment in Brightspace allows students to select their own groups, this is in the Groups tool. 

An external tool to add interactive content to your course. 

• H5P interactive content must be manually transferred between cuLearn and Brightspace.  (specific instructions are in development for this process)

• H5P interactive content will need to be rebuilt.
• Visit the Brightspace Support page for instructions on building H5P activities. 

Carleton’s video and media platform to record, upload and host videos. 

• Kaltura videos migrate to Brightspace. Depending on how the videos were added to the course, some video links may need to be re-established.

• To embed a Kaltura video on modules and sub-modules, click on ‘Existing Activities’ and select ‘Insert MediaSpace’. This will link automatically to your MediaSpace account and you can select which video you want to embed from there.  

• To add Kaltura videos on HTML pages, click Insert Stuff on the editor toolbar, and then select Insert Mediaspace. 

• Recording media using Kaltura and uploading it to Mediaspace works in the same way.  

These are used to add text or multimedia to your course homepage, such as adding a heading to a topic, an audio clip, or videos.

• Labels transfer to Brightspace as separate files. The content in a file does not appear on the Content page and will need to be revised or deleted.

• See example below.  

• There is no direct equivalent to labels in Brightspace. Delete or revise content pages associated with label content.

• If you wish to display text on the Content page, consider adding descriptions to modules, submodules and topics.  

The lesson tool allows users to create a guided learning path, including videos, assessments, and text. 

• Lessons transfer as separate pages, but videos do not carry over and need to be re-inserted. Transcripts or attached documents do migrate. Questions transfer but not their associated options.  
• Images transfer. 

• See example below.  

• Lessons have to be rebuilt or reworked. You can create new files by selecting ‘Add a file’, which allows you to create a page of content. You can display multiple videos in one file. Explore the HTML templates on files for a clean design.  

• To insert questions, you can use H5P below each video segment or create a new file for the questions. 

Direct links to external webpages or videos, such as YouTube content.

• YouTube links embed the video within Brightspace or open on YouTube (this depends on the display settings). 

• External links may break when taken into Brightspace.  

• See example below. 

• Edit the link to update the URL. 

Pages are used to present larger pieces of text such as lecture notes or instructions. They can hold videos, photos and links. 

• Pages migrate into Brightspace as Files. The formatting (font, size, spacing) may need to be reformatted for proper visual display. 
• Any videos embedded using Kaltura will not migrate and need to be relinked. 

• Edit the File in Brightspace to adjust any formatting. Use the ‘insert stuff’ button in the HTML editor to re-embed videos.  

Poll everywhere is a student response system that allows you to gather data from your students in real time. Poll Everywhere Porter allows your class list to be imported into Poll Everywhere and generates automatic student accounts so polls can have registered users.

• The Poll Everywhere porter does not transfer to Brightspace.
• Polls remain within your Poll Everywhere account and are fully accessible to you through the Poll Everywhere 

•  Add the Poll Everywhere Porter by using Add Existing Activity > External Tool> Poll Everywhere.  (NOTE: Poll Everywhere Porter will not be available until May 27, 2021; however, PE can be used outside of Brightspace)

• Additional resource: Getting Started with Poll Everywhere 

Quiz is a tool used to create summative or formative assessments to assess learning and evaluate students.   

NOTE: See the Quiz Question Migration Guide for details on specific question types and how they migrate to Brightspace.

• Quizzes transfer with questions banks and time/date settings.

• Quizzes will transfer normally unless there are calculated or equation-based questions using equation editors (such as LaTeX).  
• Quiz restrictions do not migrate.

• All question libraries should be reviewed to check the accuracy of the quiz settings and questions.
• Quizzes that have migrated from cuLearn will need to be  linked to a grade item and weights will need to be added in Grades. You should also add it to a course module. 

• Create calculated (arithmetic) questions in Brightspace, rather than transferring them.  

• Create any new questions directly in Brightspace Question Library. 

• Edit the quiz properties to change the amount of questions on each page and other settings.  

Rubrics are grading grids to assess students on criteria and levels of achievement. 

• Rubrics do not migrate* 

• Rubrics will need to be created using the Rubrics tool. Click Course Admin, Select Rubrics and Click New Rubric.   

These are used in advanced statistics and Psychology for statistical analysis. 

• Files of these type transfer normally and run as they do in cuLearn.  

• No change required.

Schedule appointments with students or student groups. 

• Does not migrate; no equivalent tool in Brightspace 

• There is no direct equivalent to the Scheduler tool. 
• The Self-Select Groups option can be setup to allow students to opt into meeting times.

• You may consider using a shared document in Teams, a discussion forum with anonymous posting enabled or taking appointments via email as a way to setup your groups. 

Add an audio file to play with PowerPoint slides, usually used to record voice as you present slides. 

• Voice Over PowerPoints will display in Brightspace, but not as an embedded video or an external link. Users will be asked to download these files in order to watch them.  

• To embed a Voice Over PowerPoint, share the MediaSpace link as a URL in a new file or by creating a link in a module. 

This tool is used to anonymously provide peer assessments. 

• Does not migrate; no equivalent tool in Brightspace 

• There is no direct equivalent in Brightspace.  

BigBlueButton 

BBB sessions will need to be remade in Brightspace. They will display with the appropriate name, but the link will not include a meeting. When migrated from cuLearn, BBB appears like this in Brightspace:

To create a new meeting  

1. On your module page, select Existing Activities. 
2. In the drop-down menu, External Learning Tools.
3. An Add an Activity menu will appear. Select BigBlueButton.
4. BigBlueButton will automatically embed in your course. Click the BigBlueButton link (see example below).
5. On the Create Room page, fill in your meeting room information.
6. Save your session and you will then be redirected to the ‘Join session’ button. 

Books

The content of your book will come over to Brightspace, but (similar to the lesson tool) the content will be separated into different files. In this book, you can see each page from the book is a new file in Brightspace, all kept together in a submodule.  

A book in cuLearn:               

The same book, migrated into Brightspace:      

Gradebook

All content from the gradebook will transfer, minus student data.  

Gradebook in cuLearn: 

The same Gradebook in Brightspace: 

You can see that the H5P assignments display, though below the News Reports. Graded items will need to be reordered in the gradebook in order to reflect their locations in cuLearn. You can also edit their weights or remove assignments from the Gradebook as needed.  

Labels

Labels migrate into Brightspace as individual files. The text does not appear directly on the Content page. If you wish to display text on the Content page, consider adding a module or submodule description, or a description to a content topic.  

A label in cuLearn: 

Corresponding Brightspace label File on the Content page: 

Corresponding Brightspace File when Opened: 

Lessons

Though lessons transfer, information will display as separate pages in Brightspace because they display as sub-modules. Video content does not migrate. 

This is what a lesson looks like in Brightspace: 

As you can see, each of the pages from the lesson display individually on Brightspace and a learner can click any of the pages, they are not forced to go through the entire lesson.

Kaltura videos do not transfer and should be re-embedded. You can see the link but it doesn’t go anywhere.

Embedded questions display but not the options. The answers do display on the following page. 

You can rework lessons as Files in Brightspace. See table above for instructions and resources. Files will appear on your Brightspace course, here is an example:  

Links

Some links will migrate well and display embedded in a page on Brightspace. Here are two examples:  

A properly migrated link:       

Broken link: