Exporting a canvas course, editing the html files and importing to the same course

AndreasMadsen

Hello

Situation

We have several courses on Canvas. These courses have several pages which all contain a text string that needs removal.

Attempted solution

We exported course "something" which produces a "something.imscc" file which is a .zip file. We then unzipped it. Then we programatically removed all the strings that needed to be removed from the wiki_content folder files. After this we zipped it to the same name "somethings.imscc". Then we imported this file to the same course it was exported from. The hope was that this import would overwrite all the old html files with the new ones, however it just added duplicates of all the files, we then have the correct and the incorrect version of the same html page.

Question

Is there a way to export a course, do the editing needed to the html files in wiki_content and then import it to the same course and have it replace the old html files?

JeffCampbell

While it should be set up to overwrite existing pages, there could be something with how it is reading the edited files that could be causing it to duplicate instead.

If you are fixing this by editing the HTML to remove the text string, you can edit the HTML from within Canvas. If you know the exact pages that the text string is located on, even better. Go to the page needing removal of the string and enter the editing mode. Then click on the < > icon in the lower right below the editing pane to access the HTML editor. Now, there are two versions to the editor: Pretty and Raw. Once in the HTML editor, you can switch between them with a button on the left side below the editing pane. The Pretty version indents everything, but doing CTRL-F is limited to just what is visible plus a few extra lines. If you have a longer page, switch to the Raw editor and use CTRL-F to search for the string. Then remove the necessary part and save. Try this with one page you know has the content needing remove to see if you can find the necessary string to remove.

A benefit to this method is saving the steps of needing to export, unzip the .imscc file, edit files, rezip as an .imscc file, then import the file (and any necessary fixing of duplicates). Plus it means that you can now export a clean file with the issue fixed.