Looking to reduce labor on Brightspace to Canvas link migration

[JonasPrida]

Hi friends-

My University is migrating from Brightspace to Canvas. Some of the courses have a lot of extranal links, images, etc. One of our faculty members is looking at close to 140 missing/broken links, mostly to .jpegs and .pngs. Does anyone know a tool that I can suggest to the faculty member so he doesn't have to manually find/replace all 140 broken links?

Faculty member is tech saavy but understandably wants to cut labor time if possible.

Thanks

[Chris_Hofer]

Hi there, @JonasPrida ...

Canvas actually has a built-in link checker that will tell you if it finds broken links, images, etc.  It even will let you know if those things are pointing to other courses and need to be fixed.  I'm not sure if you've seen this particular Guide, but I'll provide you the link here:

How do I validate links in a course?

Be sure to look through the examples in the Guide to see what kinds of things the validation tool checks for...so know how to interpret the issues that it may find in your own course.

I hope this will be a good starting point for you.  Let Community members know if you have any other questions about this...thanks!

[JonasPrida]

Hi there-

The problem hasn't been finding the broken links [the tool worked great]. The challenge is finding a tool that will automatically find and restore the missing images/links in Canvas. I considered this unlikely, but figured I would ask.

Thanks again

[Chris_Hofer]

Hi @JonasPrida ...

Ah...I see.  Yeah, the Link Validator in Canvas does not fix things that it finds (broken links, links to content in other courses, etc.).  It just provides you a listing of what it has found so that you can go in and make the needed corrections.