Show broken images in "Student View"

[ellen_caldwell]

As of now, "Student View" does not show when an image might appear broken to a student, while showing up correctly in your own student view. Some of this can occur if you copy and past HTML from an existing Canvas page from another course or if you copy HTML from one discussion post response to another. But when you have 5-8 classes, it is important to be able to quickly check what your pages look like to real students.

[Steven_S]

One way to check for broken images is to run the link validator from the right side menu of course settings. It checks the entire course, so it take a while to run, but it will identify images that students might not have access to.

[choppingm]

Seconded! This also applies to PDFs stored locally, in Files.  It's rather mind-boggling that Canvas has the capability to scan images and linked content for accessibility, but it doesn't point out links to material that is not accessible to students. It could effect this in the same way as accessibility warnings -- with an icon -- or simply by highlighting the link in magenta.  p.s. Using the link validator on the entire course to locate link issues on one page or announcement is like using a jackhammer to open a walnut. We need real-time link validation, please!  

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