Mark page as not used

[GerryRoston]

I recently joined a university and am working with a person who developed a course using Canvas a number of years ago. As time moved along, some old pages are no longer used but were left in the course, but not published, 'just in case'. The problem with this method is that when I ran the Course Link Validator, a large number of issues were found, but the issues were meaningless.

As such, I suggest/request that a feature be added so that identified pages are not checked by the Course Link Validator. Two ways of doing this pop into mind:

1. Have a check box on each page, like the Published check box, that when checked the Course Link Validator skips the page. This approach would be somewhat of a pain to manage.
2. Create a 'sub-directory' under Pages and all pages in said folder are not checked. This should be easy to implement and use.

[JamesSekcienski]

@GerryRoston 

This looks like something that is more appropriate to post in Idea Conversations since this is requesting a new feature that isn't a part of the Discussions/Announcement re-design.

As for a temporary solution in the meantime, have you considered perhaps making a second course that could be the "archive" for the old pages that are no longer used?  This way the pages could be copied to the second course for the "just in case" scenario.  After you copy them over, then you could delete them from the original course so they no longer impact the course link validator report.

[GerryRoston]

I clicked the 'Idea Conversations' link but did not see how to post to that forum...

[JamesSekcienski]

It may be due to you being a "New Member" at the moment. I think there are some restrictions on what you can do until you are more active in the community. You can learn more at this blog post: Updates to Community Ranks and Roles

[mwolfenstein]

If that's the case, it's a little weird that new members can post to a feature user group but can't post an idea.