NTNU's learning platform Blackboard and plagiarism control solution Ourginal, must be replaced due to ending contracts, and due to the solutions disappearing from the market.

Sikt, Norwegian Agency for Shared Services in Education and Research, has entered into agreements for the learning platform Canvas, the plagiarism control solution Inspera Originality and the examination system WISEflow. Joint solutions in the sector can facilitate mobility, collaboration and sharing, together with better utilization of the sector's resources. Visit Sikt's website for more information about the acquisitions (in Norwegian).

NTNU plans to introduce Canvas and Inspera Originality and will make a thorough assessment of whether NTNU should also change its examination system.

Norsk versjon: Innføring av nye utdanningssystem ved NTNU

News

You will find relevant news about the new systems by following the links below. You can also find presentations from meetings with NTNU, here ( requires NTNU-user. The material is primarily in Norwegian).

• 2025-02-05 NTNU planning for new learning management system and plagiarism control
• 2025-01-28 NTNU to consider a new digital assessment tool

Who is influenced by the new systems?

The introduction of a new learning platform and a new solution for plagiarism control will give all students, most teaching staff, and many of NTNU's examiners new tools. Managers of teaching staff must also be familiar with the changes and how they affect their department.

What should I do now? Neither academic nor administrative staff are required to actively do anything now (winter 2025). You should make sure that the new learning management system is part of your plans for the spring, summer and autumn of 2026. We will provide updated information when the time comes for more active engagement.

As a manager you should prepare for the coming changes, and make sure that the new learning management system is part of your department’s plans for 2026.

Educator

How do I get my course content from Blackboard?

Ensuring a good user experience for the students, while minimizing the work of moving from Blackboard to Canvas, will be an important task for the work ahead.

How course content may be moved, will depend on technical possibilities and the content structures that give the best user experience for students and staff. If it is possible and worthwhile to move content automatically, we will do so. However, it will probably not be possible and worthwhile to move all course content directly to the new solution. Exploration and planning of this work is ongoing.

The Panoptop video archive is not affected and will be available as today.

Will I still have access to H5p and other learning tools that are integrated into Blackboard?

If NTNU has an agreement with the tools, we plan to integrate these tools into Canvas.

Technical administrative staff

More information will be made available later.

Manager

More information will be made available later.

Student

This page is targeted to employees. More information for students will be made available later.

When will new systems be introduced?

The introduction of new systems is in its early stages, and changes may occur. However, the working hypotheses are that:

• Inspera Originality (plagiarism control) will be introduced no later than autumn 2025, and perhaps already at the start of the semester. The current solution must be replaced before 1 March 2026.
• Canvas (learning platform) will be piloted in spring 2026 and introduced for all courses by the start of the semester in autumn 2026. This will entail training and the need to start with preparation of course content during the spring of 2026.
• Inspera Assessment or WISEflow (examination system): NTNU will take its time to assess whether a change of examination system is appropriate. A possible change will probably not occur until 2027 at the earliest. This is, among other things, to distribute the work related to changing IT solutions.

Other frequently asked questions

How has NTNU been involved in the procurement process?

NTNU has been represented in all three procurements. First, in the insight work both locally and in the sector, through expert participators who took part in the procurement working groups, and through user testing as part of the procurement. A selection of lecturers, study consultants and students have contributed to the testing.

Please see more information about this phase of the work at New digital learning platform at NTNU and Sikt's insight work (project report and webinar recording).

Contact

If you have questions, please contact us at NTNU Hjelp. Secondarily feel free to contact project manager Øyvind Hauge.