Since our December announcement that Duke is moving from Sakai to Canvas, the project team has been focused on our plans for migration and training, and are pleased to share the following updates with the Duke community:

Monday, April 10 from 12 to 1 pm EDT

The LMS Transition Team will describe the current status of the transition to Canvas at Duke. This will include information regarding the timeline, instructor training opportunities, migration, integrations and basic differences between Sakai and Canvas. Following the presentation, there will be time for questions and comments.

The DKU Office of Academic Affairs will send an invitation to a separate town hall event for the DKU community.

We are on track to use Canvas at Duke next Fall! If you would like to volunteer to be an early adopter to teach your course using Canvas in Fall 2023, you will need to be available for approximately 4 to 8 hours of training and migration support over a two-week period in the summer. Spots are limited. This opportunity is also open to instructors at DKU.

To reduce the effort needed to prepare future courses, we are building a service called Sakai2Canvas that will allow those with the Instructor role in a Sakai course site or the Owner role in a Sakai project site to migrate the site to Canvas. This service is designed to copy instructor content for future courses and ongoing projects. No student data will be migrated using Sakai2Canvas.

We plan to employ a phased approach to transitioning courses from Sakai to Canvas. You may opt-in to transition to Canvas as early as Fall 2023, and our goal is to have all courses using Canvas by Fall 2024.

We are currently developing our plan for migration support. We will devote a significant level of project support personnel and resources to providing training and converting course sites, with and for users, in order to minimize the impact on instructors. 

We are currently exploring various methods of migration as there are differences between the two platforms. No student data will be migrated from Sakai to Canvas. Because Canvas will have a different interface and toolset than Sakai, you may find that the content you anticipate migrating may no longer achieve the same learning objectives. Thus, you may find it easier to start course building from a blank slate and explore the new opportunities and features Canvas has to offer. Learning Innovation will be available to discuss options and provide pedagogical advice. 

For questions not answered on the FAQ page of the website, you may email the LMS Transition project team at lmstransition@duke.edu. 

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