Help and Support

Migrating Courses to Brightspace (Faculty) 

Prepare your Blackboard courses for migration by reviewing our Preparing your course for migration document.  Of special note, please make sure any videos stored in Ensemble or directly in Blackboard are moved to Panopto or YouTube.  More information is in Step 2 of the document.

All fully online courses being taught in the Fall 2022 semester have been automatically migrated to Brightspace.  The migration and conversion was completed on June 9. Proceed to the section below related to reviewing your content.

For other course modalities, there are a few options:

1. You can use the Fall 2022 Course Migration Request form to request your Blackboard course(s) get converted and migrated to Brightspace. If you’d like to use this option, make sure to copy content into your Blackboard fall course shell as that is where the content will be migrated from.  Please note it could take several days for the course to show in Brightspace due to the demand of course conversions taking place among all Cohort 1 campuses.

2. If you’d like to migrate courses yourself, you can export the content from Blackboard (written exporting instructions, video exporting instructions) and import it into Brightspace (written importing instructions, video importing instructions).  Note that student data does not import.  There is also a 1GB limit on exporting content from Blackboard.  If you find your course export is larger than this, you can either downsize the course or use the course migration request form above to have your course migrated automatically.

3. You can also opt to start fresh in Brightspace in which case you can get started any time.

Review Migrated Content

All courses that have migrated, whether by request or manually, should be reviewed to ensure all the content migrated and acts as expected.  You can use our migration guide to assist with this.  The guide continues to evolve as we work through the transition.

Helpful Videos

• Exporting a course from Blackboard
• Importing a course into Brightspace
• Removing Subfolders to Improve Student Navigation
• Walking Through Brightspace-Faculty View
  • Setting up Zoom in Brightspace
  • Setting up RedShelf in Brightpace
• Brightspace training videos

Documentation

• Migration Guide - Prepping a Brightspace Course
• Glossary of Terms—a quick guide of terms used in Blackboard to terms used in Brightspace.  When available, Brightspace support documentation and videos are provided.
• Gradebook- Using the Setup Wizard
• Gradebook Creating Categories
• Fixing Quizzes in Brightspace
• Course Builder 
• Desire2Learn support material—answers to questions about D2L's products, services, implementation, and more.

Please let us know if you have any feedback for improving our documentation.

Additional Information

More detailed information regarding the SUNY DLE project is available from SUNY’s website. Other resources include:

• Contact the SUNY Oswego Help Desk and a ticket will be directed to the DLE team