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Notes

A couple of known problems and limitations with Google Sites Liberation:

  • Most of the gadgets that aggregate content (recent list items, recent files, recent posts) do not export cleanly.
  • The navigation menu doesn't export, so you will need to rebuild navigation by linking individual pages into the D2L content section.
  • None of the site theming exports, so really all you get is the bare HTML content.  Not so pretty.

If you really like authoring content in Google Sites, you might be better off just linking out to the site from Desire2Learn, but if you want all your course content to live under the same roof, without double-logins, it is possible to export a Google site and import it to D2L.

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Google Sites Liberation

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Import a Google Site into Desire2Learn
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Published: 08/11/11
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Google Apps for EDU, iLearnNYC Platform
Desire2Learn, Google Sites, Interoperability

Problem of practice

How can you import content from a Google Site into the NYCDOE's Desire 2 Learn platform?

Solution

Though imperfect, there's an open source tool called Google Sites Liberation that will export all the HTML content and files from a Google Site into a hierarchical web folder. Zip this folder, upload it to course files, and push it out as content!

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