External links are critical to the success of Canvas courses, links to slide lectures, links to articles and readings, and links to external resources. However, the handling of external links in Canvas is limited.
Currently, instructors can add an external link item to a modules, but they cannot duplicate a link item easily in another module. There is also no external links management page as there is with assignments, pages, quizzes, or files. Nor are links imported from .mbz files when importing from Moodle.
I propose that
- External links be transformed into manipulable objects similar to (but much simpler than) assignments or pages,
- A page to manage external links be added to the menu,
- Additional optional information about each link be collected with them, and
- User-created categories be created for external links, similar to assignments, to help organize links on the Links Page.
Link addition could look something like this:
The external link management page could look something like this:
Please consider my suggestion before whisking it off your ToDo list by merging it with another only vaguely related suggestion (as with my previous community contributions).
