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Completely untested by me but it LOOKS like it should work. It's quite standalone, and is basically a single function call during the restore precheck which looks in the backup to see if it's a BB file, then converts it using XSLT. Apart from a little tidyup and renaming, I added a check so that it should just silently fail if XSLT functions aren't available Many thanks to Ziba Scott <ziba@linuxbox.com> who wrote it!
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Ziba Scott <ziba@linuxbox.com> 11/19/04
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This is a beta demonstration of a utility to convert Blackboard
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Course export zip files into Moodle course export zip files. It
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has been successfully tested with Blackboard 5.5 and
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Moodle 1.4.1 and Moodle CVS. There is minimal Blackboard 6 support.
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It will convert:
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* Course Name/Title
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* Forum Topics
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* Course Documents
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* Assignments
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* External Links
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The current status of this project is
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exploration/proof-of-concept. We have successfully converted
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basic Blackboard course information as well as course documents
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and forum topics using the XSLT methods described above.
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AUTOMATED OPERATION:
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REQUIREMENTS FOR WEB INTERFACE:
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*Moodle 1.4.1 or greater
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*PHP compiled with --enable-xslt --with-xslt-sablot options
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(Check php.net for instructions on enabling xslt for your platform)
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INSTALLATION:
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*Unpack this file into the "backup" directory
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MANUAL OPERATION:
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REQUIREMENTS:
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*An XSLT 1.0 processor (like Sablotron)
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*A zipping utility
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REQUIREMENTS FOR WEB INTERFACE:
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*Linux/Unix
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*PHP compiled with --enable-xslt --with-xslt-sablot options.
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*Apache with write access to /tmp
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*A commandline zipping utility
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COMMAND LINE INSTRUCTIONS:
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1) Download and uncompress the Blackboard export into a directory.
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2) Copy bb2moodle.xslt into the Blackboard course directory.
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3) Run your XSLT processor on imsmanifest.xml with bb2moodle.xslt
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as the input and moodle.xml as the output. If you are using
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Sablotron on linux, this command will look like this:
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sabcmd bb2moodle.xslt imsmanifest.xml > moodle.xml
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4) Create a moodle zip file with this structure:
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moodle.xml
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user_files/
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course_files/
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5) Copy every subdirectory and its contents from the Blackboard
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export directory into the course_files directory. This does
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not include the Blackboard XML files, only the course
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documents. Your moodle zip file will now look similar to
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this:
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moodle.xml
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user_files/
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course_files/res0009/myfile.doc
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course_files/res0010/myotherfile.doc
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course_files/res0010/mypicture.jpg
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6) Upload and restore your moodle zip file
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