Canvas Transition

Canvas will become Lane’s official LMS for classes beginning in Fall 2026.

Summer 2026 courses and student enrollments will remain in Moodle. Instructors are expected to receive limited access to Canvas by May 1, 2026 for training, review, and preparation.

Yes. Instructors are expected to have access to both systems during the Summer 2026 transition period.

Instructors can expect to have access to their completed migrated courses on Tuesday, Sept 1 to review migrated content and preparing for Fall term. Instructors will continue to have access to Canvas prior to the 1st to continue training and planning for migration.

While we cannot stop you, the intent behind the contracting of K16 was to avoid the immense amount of work that may be required in a manual migration process.

Unfortunately, directly importing content from Moodle into Canvas has an inconsistent success rate at best. Several activity types and question types do not cleanly transfer over to Canvas. Large swaths of more basic content may be carried over without issue, but the amount of work proofreading an import to ensure complete accuracy may end up doubling or tripling your workload for Fall term. Most critically, embedded content (links, files, media) is likely to have issues with an import, and Canvas's built-in reporting tools will not catch every last detail.

Any work that is done manually transferring your course materials is ultimately done at your own risk. The ATC heavily recommends waiting for K16 to transfer your content over. If you have a version of a course that is different than the ones you have set for migration, and want to ensure K16 uses the right version, contact the ATC.

In Moodle, Banner was connected, but instructors could still manually override enrollments inside the course. In Canvas, that override layer is intentionally removed for credit courses—enrollments come only from Banner, so manual student enrollments and self-enrollment are only available for development courses. Teachers can enroll colleagues into all courses as teacher and/or non-editing teachers.

Canvas treats Banner as the single source of truth to keep grading, reporting, and financial aid clean. If a student isn’t showing yet, it’s usually a sync delay; most resolve quickly (thanks to reduced lag between SIS->LMS), but ATC can verify and add a temporary enrollment if required.

Credit-based course names in Canvas come from Banner and follow a strict standardized naming convention.The name in Canvas needs to match what’s in Banner so students see consistent information across registration, transcripts, and course access. 

Additionally, Canvas manages course naming at a system level, which means this isn’t a setting that can be turned on for some courses and off for others.

If you’re working in a development course: 

1. Any user (including faculty) can click the three-dot menu that appears on a course card within their Dashboard and choose “Nickname” to set a custom name. This only changes how the course displays on their Dashboard and does not alter the actual course name in Canvas. Similar to course card colors, it’s a personal display preference and only affects that individual user.
2. Contact the ATC and request the course name be changed

Fall 2026 sections will be built and available in Canvas by September 1st.

Lane is migrating course content from Moodle to Canvas using K16 Solutions to help reduce the amount of manual rebuilding instructors need to do after the transition.

Not necessarily. Some content types, tools, and course elements may require review or adjustment after migration. More information will be shared as testing and quality review continue.

The college has contracted with K16 Solutions to migrate course content from Moodle into Canvas. K16 utilizes a “Scaffold Migration” approach along with an extensive team-based iterative review process to ensure that all course materials are imported correctly. The process includes test migrations, faculty review, technical adjustments, and final validation before broader sitewide migration moves forward.

At the beginning of the review process, prior to the migration of content, 12 instructors were jointly appointed by the LCCEA (Union) and the College. Instructors were involved in the quality review process were selected from courses that reflect a range of course types and complexity. The quality review was completed and migration will take place and be completed on September 1st. 

What if the migrated course has missing or broken items?

All instructors should review the Migration Exception Log of each of their courses. Inside every migrated course is a page (Course > Pages) called “Migration Exception Log” that lists any error or warning that occurred during the transfer process. Examples: identify any unsupported question types, restricted access settings, books moved into pages, lessons deconstructed into multiple pages, etc. 

ATC is offering two online-only training sessions on Tuesday, September 15th, before in-service, to help get instructors immediately begin working on courses. Join us online by registering here. You will receive a Zoom link via email after completing registration. Complete the registration once for each session to receive both Zoom links.

• Session One 12pm-1pm: Introduction to Canvas Essentials — Learn basic Canvas Navigation and how to jump in and start editing content that has been transitioned.
• Session Two 1:15pm-2:45pm: The Comprehensive Canvas Course Checklist — Learn how to review your course and Migration Exception Logs to ensure your course is prepped for students.

Additional information and Registration for Fall In-Service will be sent out soon for Canvas Training on Sept 17th and Sept 22nd with in-person and online options.

Previous and other active training opportunities:

• Asynchronous online training options: Growing with Canvas & Canvas Training Portal (view the details above).
• Canvas Guides (general how-tos)
• Spring Conference sessions on May 1, 2026 (view the recordings on this page above).

Yes. Instructors can now access and explore Canvas on our Canvas site. Instructors may use their own sandbox Dev Shells to become familiar with Canvas. We strongly recommend waiting for the official migration of content rather than importing content yourself, as this automated process will save you significant time and effort.

Most of the top-used LTI / external tools are already enabled in Canvas, and we are continuing to work through the remaining list. If you rely on a tool for Fall term and you cannot find it in Canvas, contact the ATC (atc@lanecc.edu) so we can make it a priority.

Canvas does not integrate with H5P the way Moodle did. Activities initially come across as placeholders and have to be reconnected after migration. Beginning September 1, the ATC will identify which courses use H5P and contact those instructors to build a plan for reconnecting the broken activity links. We will reach out to you, and courses running fall term are prioritized first.

Canvas (canvas.lanecc.edu) is Lane’s official LMS for student enrollments and class materials beginning Fall 2026. General access to Moodle will cease on September 14, 2026 and all user access will be suspended by default. Individual instructor access will be granted through December 31, 2026 if an instructor submits a Moodle extended access request. Student access to Moodle will be restricted to grade appeal review.

If there is something in Moodle you know you need, and it has not been queued for migration, we recommend downloading it now rather than waiting on a request later.