Automating course migration and uplift
Friday, 07 May, 2021
Edtech developer Crystal Delta has released a new version of its course migration application, Crane, to help tertiary education institutes reduce course migration and uplift from weeks and months down to days.
Moving to a new learning management system (LMS), creates two distinct tasks:
- Course migration.
- Uplift (or transformation) of courses.
There are multiple available solutions to facilitate step one (including Crane), but Crystal Delta says step two is less easily done, taking many months and hundreds of thousands of dollars to execute.
The latest Crane release includes what Crystal Delta describes as "industry-first innovations in intelligent automation", allowing users to uplift courses during or after an automated migration. By allowing users to specify a target template, Crane transforms the content to suit the desired layout and structure, reducing course uplift down to days.
"We noticed our education customers were struggling to migrate and then uplift their courses within an effective delivery timeframe. These delays cost educational institutes significant amounts, but more importantly, it affects students and their access to education," said David Mackenzie, Crane Product Owner and Crystal Delta CTO.
Crane's course migration capabilities encompass with a range of LMSs including Blackboard, Instructure and D2L, among others. Crystal Delta has proven bulk migrations with uplift from BlackBoard Learn to Blackboard Ultra at 2500 courses per day.
RMIT University has leveraged the solution to accelerate its course migration, delivering hundreds of courses within days.
"Our manual course migration project was running behind schedule, and we decided to approach the Crystal Delta team to assist. Crystal Delta's automation delivered migrated courses with consistent quality at high speed, and they completed the migration of courses ahead of the project deadline," said Tass Katsoulidis, Director of Learning & Teaching Solutions, RMIT University.
The Crane application has migrated thousands of courses for small and large education institutions in Australia, Asia and the United States.
"We aim to make complex things simple. Education institutes and students of today deserve the right to advanced technology to accelerate the learning experience," said Balaji Baradhazhvar, Crystal Delta CEO.
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