Existing courses and content from previous semesters that are still needed on the new platform will be transferred manually by instructors (or persons with the role of “Kurleiter”). If several persons with the role of “Kursleiter” are enrolled in your course, please agree among yourselves who will be responsible for transferring content.

Resources for transferring content from Blackboard can be found directly in Learn@FU and are available after you log in.

Yes, this is possible, but only the most common question types and settings can be transferred. Integrated images and media are not transferred.

You have the following options:

1. Tests as a whole can be exported in Common Cartridge format as part of a course export and restored in Learn@FU.
2. Test questions can also be exported from individual tests or from pools as a zip package and imported into the question collection of a Learn@FU course. In this case, the “test framework” into which the questions are inserted must be recreated in Moodle.

The following question types can be imported with both options:

• True/False, Multiple Answer, Multiple Choice, Simple Fill-in-the-Blank, Essay

Additionally:

• Only with Common Cartridge: Likert Scale
• Only with test question export: Matching

Important: Carefully review all transferred content and settings, and make sure the tests work as intended! For detailed information regarding the transfer of tests, please visit our resources available in Learn@FU.

User data such as student participation in forums, tests, or exercises, etc. cannot be transferred to Learn@FU.

Announcements, forum posts (e.g., in an FAQ forum), wiki pages, etc. that you have created yourself are also user data. If you want to reuse this data in Learn@FU, you must copy the texts manually from Blackboard. We recommend doing this in edit mode until December 31, 2026.

The amount of time needed to transfer courses depends on the following factors:

• Complexity of the courses
• Features used
• Number of courses
• Prior knowledge of Learn@FU / Moodle

We recommend that you start transferring courses and materials during the summer semester.

Please note the following when creating a new Blackboard course:

• Choose a relatively flat structure for your Blackboard course with one or at most two folder levels. A nested structure with many parent and subfolders is more difficult to transfer to the new learning platform.
• For tests, use the following question types, which can be imported into Moodle later: 
  • True/False, Multiple Answer, Multiple Choice, Simple Fill-in-the-Blank, Essay

If you have any further questions or need advice, please feel free to contact us. 

It is possible to transfer courses from another Moodle system by backing them up and restoring them. Please note that your content may be displayed differently in the systems due to version differences or plugins.