Canvas Pages Clean-Up

[gschultz]

Recently posted this in Canvas Feature Ideas   and reviewing the How do I validate links in a course?

Validating Links is only a small portion of keeping your Canvas course current and clean.  My times we will import the content time after time, add new content, or make some other changes.  After a while though, we find out the the import/export file is getting larger and larger.  Content pages that you are no longer using and when you run the validate links feature your list is long.

It is time to now clean-up your pages and remove the ones you no longer need.  What do you do? Print out or write down all the pages you currently have set in modules. Next view all the pages and delete the ones not being used. NO, that is time consuming and there is a much easier process.

I found a great easy three step fix for those.

1. view all pages and unpublish all of them
2. go back to my modules an publish all pages
3. return to view all pages and review the unpublished items and determine whether to keep or delete

This can help clean-up an old course and remove many of the invalid link errors that would appear in the canvas tool.  Great ready for your fall start by cleaning out all the clutter.

[ajohnson]

Thank you for this reminder! Is there an easy way to "view all pages and unpublish all of them"? I know I can see them on .../pages, but not everything immediately shows and there's no "publish/unpublish all."

Thanks!

[kona]

 @annmarie_johnso ​, unfortunately no, there is no way to "unpublish all" other than going through and manually clicking the cloud for each page to change it from the green check mark to the gray cloud.

[scottdennis]

Thanks Greg!

[gschultz]

 @annmarie_johnso ​, I just found this feature idea. .  Check it out and help this become a feature if it is added to the pages content.

[kona]

This is a great idea, but might not work for everyone.

For example, I try to keep my Module page as cleaned up as possible, so I often link from one page (that is on my Modules) to another page that ISN'T on the Module page. This is normally a reference page of some sort that is important, but not important enough (in my mind) to have on/in my actual Modules.

Otherwise awesome plan to keep your Pages cleaned up!

[gschultz]

Thanks for the reminder to all, that's why I put to review all pages and determine which ones to keep just for that very reason.  But it makes for a great starting point.

[kona]

Absolutely!!