This article describes how content from eClass maps to content in Canvas through the various migration pathways available as a part of the U of A's LMS transition project. This information should especially be used by instructors when reviewing their K16 courses to determine what steps they need to take to rebuild their courses. All course content - especially quiz questions - must be reviewed thoroughly before being used.

eClass to Canvas Content Conversion Mapping

Additional Steps/Information For Advanced Content Types and Functions

• ExamLock is not available in Canvas.
• Quizzes migrated by K16 are converted into Canvas New Quizzes (which are the recommended type of quizzes to use in Canvas.) Basic question types and quiz settings are all reproduced well in Canvas but some advanced quiz question types are not compatible. All quizzes must be thoroughly reviewed before opening them to students.
• Where there are comparable settings, these are transferred along with questions including time limits, question paging, and answer shuffling. Note: in Canvas, either the quiz-level setting for shuffling answers OR the question-level setting enables answer shuffling so instructors who had questions that enabled shuffling but were keeping that setting off at the quiz-level will need to take de-select that in migrated questions.
• New Quiz (K16) question type notes:
  • Description type questions do not exist and are converted into Stimulus questions (which do not display to students unless questions are attached;) These question need to be rebuilt as the new Canvas Text Block question type;
  • Essay questions with file uploads need to be rebuilt as File Upload questions;
  • The text entered into the 'Response Template' and 'Grader information' fields in Essay questions is not migrated and must be copied manually or re-written.
  • Formula question datasets must be regenerated;
  • Drag-and-Drop onto Text, Drag-and-Drop Labels, and Drag-and-Drop onto Image questions do not transfer. These can be rebuilt as Hot Spot questions;
  • Cloze questions are converted to multiple answer questions but partial points are not possible (questions from eClass that used partial points are converted as essay question to preserve all the original information when rebuilding the question;
  • Special characters in Cloze answers are sometimes poorly formatted;
  • Calculated multichoice questions are converted to standard multiple choice questions;
  • Music Theory, STACK, Medical Calculated, and Random short-answer matching question types do not exist and have no alternative; (an alternative for STACK quizzes are being investigated by the 
  • All question bank categories are migrated but users should note that when copying content from migrated courses, item banks will only appear if they are used in quizzes. Note that it may also be necessary to adjust the item bank sharing permissions to use these in copied courses.
• Classic Quiz (manual migration) question type notes:
  • Essay questions with file uploads need to be rebuilt as File Upload questions;
  • Drag-and-Drop onto Text, Drag-and-Drop Labels, and Drag-and-Drop onto Image questions do not transfer. There is no alternative in Classic quizzes;
  • Cloze questions are converted to mulitple answer questions but partial points are not possible;
  • Music Theory, STACK, Medical Calculated types, and Random short-answer matching question types do not exist and have no alternative;
  • Datasets in Calculated questions need to be re-created.
  • Important note: manual migrations to Canvas do not take the latest version of questions so instructors must thoroughly review content once it is transferred to Canvas. This issue has been reported to canvas; the only workaround at present is to 'flatten' question versions through exporting then importing into a new question bank category.
• Empty group shells from eClass are migrated into Canvas but instructors need to be aware of the major differences with groups in the new system, notably that anonymous group access is not possible.
• The Canvas gradebook is structured very differently from the eClass gradebook so many features cannot be transferred. Graded assessments (assignments, quizzes, and discussions) are transferred with their scores intact.