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I have imported a course in from commons into canvas. When I click on a link, I get a message that says " couldn't find valid link". Please help....
Good morning, @AnneBecker ...
This might be a bit hard to troubleshoot without being able to see more of your course for context. I'm not sure where the content you imported from Commons came from (a colleague, an instructor's course at another school/college/university, etc.). It's very possible that some content might work in the original course but not in the course you imported the content into. One suggestion would be to run the link validation tool in your course to help identify any links that might not be working. If you've not done so, you can follow the steps in this Guide:
How do I validate links in a course?
If you want to share a screenshot or two of where you are seeing this message and what the link is pointing to, that might be helpful. But, I would also suggest running the link validation tool...as it should provide you more information about your course as a whole.
Keep us posted here in the Community...thanks!
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