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LMS Migration

Also known as: switching LMS, Moodle migration, Canvas migration, LMS data migration

LMS migration is the process of moving an institution's courses, user accounts, enrolment records, grades, and media assets from one LMS to another — typically from Moodle, Blackboard, or Canvas to a new platform.

LMS migrations are high-stakes: a failed migration disrupts active cohorts, loses grade history, or corrupts content. The safest approach is a phased migration — new courses launch on the new LMS while legacy courses run out on the old one, with a hard cutover only after the last active cohort graduates.

What migrates cleanly vs what needs rebuilding

  • Migrates cleanly — SCORM packages, video files, PDF/slide attachments, CSV user rosters, quiz questions (if exported as QTI or Aiken format).
  • Needs rebuilding — Moodle plugin-specific activities (H5P, custom question types), Blackboard mashups, Canvas LTI tool configurations — these are platform-specific and have no portable equivalent.
  • Requires decision — historical grades, completion records, discussion posts. Worth preserving as read-only archive; not worth rebuilding as active content.

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Related terms

Learning Management System (LMS)

A learning management system (LMS) is software that delivers, tracks, and reports on learning activities — courses, assessments, certificates, and learner progress — for a defined audience such as a university, training institute, or enterprise.

SCORM

SCORM (Sharable Content Object Reference Model) is a set of technical standards from Advanced Distributed Learning (ADL) that defines how e-learning content packages communicate with an LMS — launching lessons, tracking completion, and exchanging scores.

White-label LMS

A white-label LMS is a learning platform deployed under the institution's own brand — its logo, colours, domain, certificates, and emails — with no reference to the underlying vendor visible to learners.

Gamification in LMS

Gamification in an LMS applies game-design elements — points, badges, leaderboards, streaks, and challenges — to non-game learning activities with the goal of increasing engagement, completion, and voluntary practice.

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