When will the issues with Course Copying be resolved? Images!

badams_madison
Community Member

At the University of Wisconsin, we use Canvas. Periodically, we need to copy an older course into a new course shell. The main issue we encounter is that images from the originating course (the one we copy from) may or may not show-up when Students view the new course.  

Our only remedy at this time is inefficient. Specifically, we have to:

1. Download images from the original course + copy the associated Alt Text.
2. Navigate to the new course. 
3. Remove the images. 
4. Upload images to each page (re-doing the layout).
5. Re-add the Alt Text for each image. 

This is a known issue for the University of Wisconsin as documented in the linked KB article. This is not a new issue and it impacts us today. I spent an unexpected 40 hours diagnosing and using the steps above so that students can view course images. 

If Instructure is not going to remedy or improve the current functionality notes in the linked KB article, staff and management will have to budget, on the average, an extra 40 hours per course copy.  

The big question is: 

Does Instructure have any plans to rectify?



 

 

 

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