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Migrating a legacy course library without migrating its mistakes

Moving courses to a new platform is the best moment to find what's out of date. A guide to turning migration into a drift audit.

Migrations usually copy everything as-is: hundreds of courses moved from one LMS or authoring tool to another, including every outdated rule. A migration is the cheapest moment you'll ever have to fix that.

Inventory first

List every course, its format, its owner and its learners. You'll find duplicates, orphans and courses nobody has opened in years.

Retire before you move

Anything without an owner or learners in the last year is a candidate to retire, not migrate.

For each remaining course, identify the source it should match today. This map is the most valuable artifact of the whole migration.

Flag drift, then fix the riskiest

Check claims against current sources and fix P0 issues before the move. Lower-risk issues can follow in the new system.

Rebuild structurally where it pays

Courses that will change often are worth rebuilding as structured content, so future updates are cheap. See Migration and the Training Drift Audit.

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