Migration Schedule

PLEASE BE AWARE THAT COURSES CAN NO LONGER BE SUBMITTED FOR THE WHITE GLOVE MIGRATION PROCESS. FOR INFORMATION ON SELF-MIGRATING A COURSE, PLEASE VISIT THE CANVAS SELF-MIGRATION PAGE.

Academic Course Migration groups will be defined based on the migration priority and on the semester in which the course will be taught in Canvas. For a smooth LMS transition, there will be four migration groups:

Group Number of Courses Target Migration End Date*

1

212

April 2

2

314

May 13

3

837

June 30

4

<50

July 31

 

*It includes Course Migration White Glove and Course Migration Signoff.

For details on how migration groups are defined, please visit the migration homepage. If you have any questions regarding when your course(s) will be migrated, please contact the Canvas Team at canvasteam@uta.edu. You can also contact your College Champion for details.

Migration Deadlines

The following table displays the key activities to migrate courses from Blackboard to Canvas and the target deadlines.

Action Group 1 Group 2 Group 3 Group 4 Assigned to
Training - Growing with Canvas  2/15 3/1 4/19 7/8 Faculty

Prepare course for White Glove

(Pre-migration Checklist)

 2/15 3/1 4/19 7/8 Faculty

Perform White Glove

(Migrate course from BB to Canvas)

 3/22 4/12 5/31 7/21 Canvas White Glove Team

Validate & Signoff on Course White Gloved

(Post-migration Checklist)

 3/29 4/19 6/7 7/28 Faculty
Finalize White Glove & Course Migration 4/2 5/13 6/30  7/31 Canvas Team

 

Please note that these dates are deadlines by which each task must be completed.