Listing all places a given site is linked to in a course? Our district has blocked Flickr

[thompsli]

Our district IT has decided to block Flickr, and as a result some of our courses have had all of their images blocked for students (but not staff), since they were created with the old Canvas Rich Text Editor that pushed people to Flickr for stock images.

Is there a report we can run so we can see which pages, quizzes, assignments, discussions, and so on are linking to Flickr in each of the courses we're using so we can fix the images?

[mzimmerman]

Unfortunately, there's no a built-in report to do this.  The Link Validation tool would give you this information if the image links were actually broken for users with a student role in the course, but in this case it sounds like the links are not actually broken, just being blocked on specific computers.

[thompsli]

I'm disappointed that Canvas chose to immediately mark it as "solved" when the "solution" was just no, we don't have a way to do this. Can this please be left open for a while so I can potentially hear suggested work-arounds from fellow community members who may have experienced similar situations? 

[Chris_Hofer]

Hi there, @thompsli ...

I understand what you are saying.  When someone's response is marked as a solution (even if it isn't the solution we're looking/hoping for), it is still accurate that the functionality might not exist at the time the question was asked.  When a reply is marked as a "solution", that doesn't automatically close the topic and prevent people from adding additional replies.  So, Mike's response could be marked as a solution (because it's not current functionality).  This let's other people know that the functionality doesn't exist near the top of the screen rather than scanning an entire thread for potential solutions.  But, if other people also chime in, their responses could also be marked as a solution if they have a work-around to share.  This is one of the nice things about this Community interface compared to the previous one (prior to August 2020).  In the previous Community interface, only one response could be marked "Correct".  Here, you can mark many responses with the "Solved" or "Solution" label.

Anyway...thought I'd offer my $0.02.  Hope it helps a little.

[Ron_Bowman]

@Chris_Hofer -

I am surprised that you did not mention the third party software that allows you to clean up files in Canvas - I guess maybe because they can't check links.  If they could, then @thompsli could take that to the district people and say - buy this so that we can remove flickr from all of our courses.