[Course Settings] Ability to remove non-broken links off Link Validator

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I'd like to propose an option to manually mark links as 'not broken' within the Link Validation. Due to the server's inability to identify that quite a number of external links do work, the list of 'broken' links is incredibly long, however, when we go through and test, they work perfectly.

To be able to go through the list and manually test and remove from the list if it does work, would allow us to maintain the links much better going forward.

 

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KristinL
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nathanboettcher
Community Explorer

I agree! Faculty who use this feature have complained about this often.

sheads
Community Participant

I agree.  I have posted a similar idea elsewhere in the Idea forum (link below), specifically for links to public courses that we use in our blueprints/course templates to link to static-but-updatable resources elsewhere in Canvas: 

Allowlist for Link Validator Tool

 

TimothyMaw
Community Explorer

This would be great. So many times you know a link is actually correct, but it still shows as broken by link validator and it is frustrating.

burdicks
Community Participant

I agree. Perhaps a new checkbox can be added that says "Show "External links in this resource were unreachable"

If this can't be done, I suggest adding color coding or an icon to the different type of problems identified. If the course has any of these problems, I want them to pop out: 

  • Non-existent content referenced in this resource
  • Deleted content referenced in this resource
  • Links to other courses in this resource may not be accessible by the students in this course
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