Fast Facts About the Transition From Blackboard to Canvas

Faculty and students will no longer be able to directly access Blackboard as of December 11, 2020. Blackboard content is being archived for record-keeping purposes, and designated Pitt staff will retain limited access to that archive even after faculty and students lose direct access. To request access to Blackboard or your Blackboard content after December 11, please use this form.
Two years of Blackboard content (summer 2018-summer 2020) has been migrated into Canvas. However, this migration does not include student work or grades.
You may wish to review this checklist if you want to retain data and content that is currently in Blackboard in a format that is instantly accessible and readable to you on your own computer.
If you are interested in importing content from a term not covered by the the bulk migration, please submit a Blackboard content import request.
View a 30-minute webinar - Blackboard Retirement: What You Need to Know
More detailed Frequently Asked Questions about the transition to Canvas can be found on the Canvas @ Pitt website.

How-To Documentation for Handling Blackboard Content

Please see the below how-to guides for a wide range of options for bringing Blackboard content from old courses into Canvas for use in a new course. There are a lot of different possible circumstances, so please see the subheading below that is right for your situation.

My Blackboard course(s) have been migrated into Canvas already and I'd like to use them, or content in them, as the basis for a new Canvas course.

As in Blackboard, Canvas courses can be copied from one to another internally, without having to download or upload anything.
You can import any of your Canvas courses into any other of courses, either as a whole course, or selecting the content that you want to copy. You can selectively copy content from one course to another as many times as you'd like and we highly recommend you consider this selective course copying process for instructors who are using an imported Blackboard course as the basis for a new Canvas course.
Use this Blackboard-to-Canvas Terminology Cheat Sheet to understand the terminology and content types that Canvas uses and their equivalents in Blackboard.

My Blackboard course(s) are older than summer 2018 (term 2187), have not been migrated into Canvas and I'd like to get them migrated into Canvas their entirety.

Please use this Blackboard content import form to request that your entire pre-2187 course be migrated into Canvas. This process will be undertaken by Teaching Center technology support personnel and may take up to two business days.
Once this course is migrated into Canvas, please review the options for copying content between Canvas courses, either entirely or selectively.
Use this Blackboard-to-Canvas Terminology Cheat Sheet to understand the terminology and content types that Canvas uses and their equivalents in Blackboard.

My Blackboard course(s) are older than summer 2018 and have not been migrated into Canvas but I'd just like to import some select content from them into a new Canvas course.

To export any content out of Blackboard, you must first create a Blackboard Export file. You can either select that the entire course be exported, or just certain parts of it. The export file that is created is in the .zip format and should be kept as a .zip throughout this process.
You may either import the entire Blackboard export package into a Canvas course, or you can import selected content from the package.

I'm the leader of an Organization currently housed in Blackboard and would like to transfer the contents and enrollments over to Canvas.

If your Blackboard Organization contains participant (student) submissions and grades in the Grade Center, you may wish to review this guide for how to retain this data after the retirement of Blackboard. This data does not migrate to Canvas.
We have created space for all current Blackboard Organizations in Canvas. Don't see your Organization on your Canvas course dashboard? Check to make sure you have made your desired selections for what appears there.
When you are ready to move the content in your Organization from Blackboard to Canvas, you can follow the instructions for creating an export file in Blackboard.
Once you have this Blackboard export package, you may import it into your Canvas Organization, either in its entirety or selectively.
You may then enroll the participants from your Blackboard Organization into the Canvas version.