Aloha kākou,
We are stoked to share that the migration request for Laulima to Lamakū is officially open to our campus. You can now submit your request(s) for course/project sites offered in Spring 2025.
🔥 Who Can Request
- Faculty teaching in Spring 2025 (a CRN with the requesting faculty member’s name must be assigned in Banner for Spring 2025)
- Developer of training or professional development site with no CRN
🔥 How to Request
Migrating content (Laulima > Lamakū): At your request, all content from your Laulima site will be migrated by the LMS Admin team into a specific Lamakū sandbox shell called “Laulima Reference Site for [course name].” These Laulima Reference Sites in Lamakū are temporary and will be deleted from Lamakū in Summer 2025. The course migration may not be a 1:1 conversion and some adjustments may need to be made.
Copying content (Lamakū > Lamakū ): You can select specific portions of the migrated content to copy into your live Spring 2025 course shell (see Lamakū Tutorial: Copying Content from Another Lamakū Course for how-to).
Submit Your Migration Request for Spring 2025
Note: A separate migration request form must be submitted for each course for which the faculty member requests migration. If multiple sections of the same course alpha and number (e.g., ENG 100) are being taught in the same format (e.g., 16 weeks), then only one migration of content for ENG 100 migrated from Laulima should be requested. The same Laulima reference site with the migrated content for the course can be copied into multiple sections of the course in Lamakū.
🔥 After Requesting…
Upon completion of your submission, you will receive confirmation from the Kuali Build system. Please check your spam folder if you do not see this email. Prioritization goes to the migration of courses and training sites offered in Spring 2025 first. The LMS Admin team will process migration requests for other types of collaborative sites (not used for providing training) later. Based on the volume of requests and other technical issues, your migration may take several days to be processed. For more information, please refer to Discover Lamakū: Implementation or email uhdl@hawaii.edu if you have any migration-related questions.
A Note to Those Who Use Assignments, Tests, and Survey (ATS) Tool in Laulima
Because ATS is an outdated tool that has not been supported for a number of years by the Sakai community, not all items from ATS migrate into Lamakū. Algonquin College has developed a very handy Quiz Generator you may wish to use to format your ATS items for a batch upload into Lamakū. This is a manual process but will be far more efficient than manually entering them as questions into Lamakū. We have already had several faculty successfully use this approach to manually migrate ATS items to Lamakū. This video tutorial (7:09) demonstrates the procedures for using this tool.
⚠️To migrate large question pools in the Laulima ATS tools efficiently into the Lamakū Quiz Library, follow the instructions in the Importing ATS Assessment Lamakū tutorial before submitting your migration request.
Jamie Sickel & Youxin Zhang
Your Friendly Instructional Design Duo