Migration
Bring your courses with you
Switching platforms shouldn't mean rebuilding years of work. Upload a Moodle backup, a Canvas Common Cartridge or a SCORM package, review exactly what would be created, then commit. Nothing is written until you say so.
Three formats, one upload
Whatever you run today, one of these gets your courses out of it. EduGears AI LMS reads all three.
From Moodle
Moodle backup (.mbz)
Export a course from Moodle's own backup screen and upload it whole — sections, activities, resources and question banks.
From Canvas, Blackboard, Brightspace
Common Cartridge (.imscc)
The IMS interchange format every major platform can produce. Course structure, pages and assessments come across.
From authoring tools and older systems
SCORM package (.zip)
SCORM 1.2 and SCORM 2004 packages import and play in a built-in player — useful when the content predates your current LMS.
How a migration actually goes
- 1
Export from your current LMS
In Moodle: Course administration → Backup. In Canvas: Settings → Export Course Content. Either way you end up with a single file.
- 2
Upload and preview
Drop the file in and you get the module → lesson → activity tree that would be created, item by item. Nothing is written to your courses yet.
- 3
Read the skip list
Anything the import cannot carry is named, with its reason. That list is the point of the preview — it is how you find out before a student does.
- 4
Commit, then edit
What lands is native, editable content rather than a frozen archive. Rewrite it, extend it, or regenerate parts of it with the built-in AI tools.
What comes across, and what doesn't
An import that reports success while quietly dropping a dozen items is worse than one that hands you a list.
Comes across
- Course structure — sections and activities become modules, lessons and pages
- Question banks, as editable questions across seven common question types
- Images and links inside questions and pages
- Moodle's auto-graded essay questions, converted to AI-marked short answers
Named and skipped
- Hidden activities — the retired drafts and trainer-only copies your old course kept out of sight. Skipped by name, because hiding them was a decision someone made deliberately
- H5P and similar interactive embeds that need their original engine. A label mixing text with an embed keeps its text
- Question types that cannot be marked without your old platform behind them
- Anything else that cannot be resolved — listed by title rather than dropped in silence
One deliberate choice: an imported quiz is authoring material, not a published assessment. Students never see it, and no graded quiz exists until an instructor has read the questions and published them.
Your curriculum, not generic AI
Everything you import also feeds that course's Curriculum Intelligence knowledge base. The AI tutor answers from your material and the generators write in your curriculum's language from day one, with no separate upload step.
Migration doesn't have to be all-or-nothing
EduGears AI LMS is an LTI 1.3 platform in its own right, so the specialist tools you already licence can come along: it hosts external tools with OAuth2 security, returns grades through Assignment & Grade Services, and syncs rosters through Names & Roles. Move courses at your own pace and keep what already works.
And the way back out
Judge any platform by its exits. Whole courses export as SCORM 1.2, SCORM 2004, Common Cartridge 1.3 or Moodle .mbz; question sets export as QTI 2.1 or Moodle XML. No penalty and no support ticket — the door you came in through stays unlocked.
Migration questions
- How long does a migration take?
- A single course is a matter of minutes: export, upload, preview, commit. What takes real time is the reading — going through the skip list and deciding what to rebuild. Most academies move one pilot course first, then the rest once they trust what they see.
- Do we have to move everything at once?
- No. Import course by course, at whatever pace the teaching calendar allows. Because the platform is also an LTI 1.3 host, you can run alongside your existing LMS through the transition instead of cutting over in a single weekend.
- What happens to our question banks?
- They import as editable questions, and they can leave the same way — as QTI 2.1 or Moodle XML. Question banks are usually the most laboriously built thing an academy owns, so they are worth checking separately from the course story whenever you compare platforms.
- Can we try an import before committing to anything?
- Yes. Import a real course backup on the free tier and read the preview and the skip list before you decide anything. No credit card is needed.
Try it with a real course
Export one course from your current LMS and import it. The preview will tell you more about a migration than any sales call can.