Docsify-This and Docsify turn a folder of plain Markdown files into a browsable site – no build step, no database, no web server required. This tool takes your LMS course out of Canvas, Moodle, Brightspace, or Blackboard and converts it to exactly that: flat Markdown files, a shared images/ folder, and a ready-to-use _sidebar.md navigation file, generated automatically every time.

There's no separate "export mode" to choose – every conversion produces the same portable, shortcode-free Markdown, ready to drop into an existing Docsify or Docsify-This site.

Convert one of your own courses and browse the resulting Markdown files and images directly – no Docsify installation needed to see what carries over. Or start with a real example: Digital Animation course , as displayed by Docsify-This

Any single page can be displayed without the sidebar – a good fit for embedding one lesson via an iframe. For example: this single lesson page from the Digital Animation course

Export your course as a Common Cartridge file from your LMS. In Canvas: Settings → Export Course Content → Common Cartridge 1.1. In Moodle, D2L, or Blackboard, use their equivalent course export option. Download the .imscc file.
Upload that file below and click Convert & Download ZIP. A ZIP containing your course's .md pages, images/, and an auto-generated _sidebar.md will be downloaded.
Extract the ZIP into an existing Docsify or Docsify-This site's docs/ folder – for example a copy of the docsify-open-course-starter-kit template. If that site already has its own _sidebar.md, merge the new entries into it rather than overwriting the file.
Review the included conversion-notes.txt for a summary of what was converted, what was not included, and any warnings to address.

New to Docsify-This? The project site covers publishing Markdown with no build step or install.

Convert your course cartridge to Markdown

Upload your Common Cartridge export below.

Drop your .imscc or .zip file here

or click to browse – max 500 MB

ZIP filename (optional – leave blank to derive from course title)

Clean up numbered titles Removes manual ordering prefixes (e.g. "1 Introduction" → "Introduction", "Module 2 - Basics" → "Basics") – redundant since the generated filename already carries the ordering. Skip attached files (PDFs, videos, etc.) Omit non-image binary files from web_resources/ – keeps the ZIP small. You can manually copy these files after import. Skip image download (use remote URLs) By default, images embedded in page content are downloaded and included in the ZIP under images/. Enable this to keep original URLs instead – images still display, but from their remote source.

A _sidebar.md navigation file is always generated automatically – it isn't a separate option, since a Docsify site with no sidebar has little navigational value.

Preview Sample pages – final appearance depends on where you publish this Markdown

What exactly does this do?

It's a self-contained PHP web app running on the server. You upload a Common Cartridge .imscc export, it parses the module structure and converts wiki page content to Markdown, then hands you back a ZIP ready to drop into a Docsify or Docsify-This site.

What's converted?

Every course page → one flat .md file at the root of the ZIP, no nested folders and no frontmatter – Docsify reads the title straight from the page's first heading
Course modules → grouped in _sidebar.md under a bold module label, or flattened to a single link when a module has only one page
Images and attachments → collected into shared images/ and files/ folders, with course-wide unique filenames
Vimeo and YouTube embeds → a real <iframe>, no Docsify plugin required
A _sidebar.md navigation file, generated automatically on every conversion

What's not included?
Quizzes, discussions, and assignments have no equivalent in a flat Markdown site and are not included. A full count appears in conversion-notes.txt in the ZIP.

Can I embed a single page elsewhere?
Yes – each page's filename becomes its route, so linking straight to #/module-02-04-a7-walk-cycle (matching module-02-04-a7-walk-cycle.md in the ZIP) opens just that page. Leave out sidebar=true and loadSidebar= for a content-only view with no navigation chrome, ready to drop into an iframe.

What happens to your file?
The .imscc is extracted to a server temp directory, parsed, converted, and packaged. The temp files are immediately deleted after the ZIP is streamed to your browser – nothing is stored on the server.

Uploaded files are processed in a temporary directory and deleted immediately after conversion. Nothing is permanently stored on the server.

Built by Paul Hibbitts and Claude Code · Works with Docsify-This or plain Docsify · Converter GitHub · Starter Kit GitHub