I wanted to show a colleague how to import content into a course, and I was showing him the steps provided by @James_Kocher_UF in the post https://community.canvaslms.com/message/3429#3429. Once I got to the step to import the information I no longer needed to proceed with the demonstration. That is when I could not figure out how to cancel the import. There is a cancel button on the page listing the content that you want to select to import; however there is no cancel for the overall action of importing. Anybody have any ideas?
@bowmanr , as far as I'm aware there is no way to cancel a course import once it gets started. Yet, if you want to clear it out once it's done you can "Reset Course Content" - How do I reset course content? Side note - this will delete EVERYTHING out of the course, not just the recent import.
@bowmanr , as far as I'm aware there is no way to cancel a course import once it gets started. Yet, if you want to clear it out once it's done you can "Reset Course Content" - How do I reset course content? Side note - this will delete EVERYTHING out of the course, not just the recent import.
I figured that was the case. It does not matter in this case. I was importing into my playground course. I will just leave it as a pending import and not worry about it. I knew about the reset course, and I really have no intention of ever using that feature until I do something stupid.
"Reset Course Content" is my best friend as I use my sandbox for all sorts of faculty and student training, and clean out all the gobbledygook at least once a week. That being said, we actually turned this feature off for faculty after cleaning up a few "stupid" mistakes.
I did two successful imports and the third attempt failed. The fourth attempt is stuck on pre-processing for 24 hours. I restarted Canvas and tried a fifth time. It now has the status queued, but nothing seems to be happening as the pre-processing 4th attempt which states that the file is missing isn't working. The queue seems to be blocked and I don't know how to eliminate that import. I am willing to Reset Course Content, but want to be sure that the whole import queue will be cleared out as well as the already imported content.
I'm guessing you took a look at my account? I created those files (somehow) using Canvas options. I believe I used the "export content' in the modules page for one of them. I was able to successfully import content from my development shell into my actual course when I went to settings and prepared a course export again.
When I commented above, I was trying to help a colleague who was stuck with the pre-processing message. To solve her problem we did the following:
exported her current course (making sure the downloaded file was a .imscc
Well, I'm glad to hear you were successful in helping your colleague - that is pretty smart exporting only what you want keep and then re-importing into reset course shell.
