I want to clean up my files. How can I detect unused items?
Hi @DavidSalzman
With files, I don't really know how you can see what is used within the course, so maybe someone else can help with that one.
Assigments is by far the easiest one: you go to "assignments" within your course and if beneath the title of the assigment, you see the name of 1 or more modules in subscript, that means the assignment is linked to a module.
Pages is a little more complicated, but I use a 'hack': I de-publish all pages under 'pages' within the course. Then I go back to modules, publish all content. Then I go back to pages and all pages that are not published are not part of a module. Beware!!!! When you have a page that is not part of a module, but for instance linked to from another page or assigment, that will be deleted by this method aswel! So, not always the best way to do this.
Hope this helps and is part of the answers you are looking for.
Hi there, @DavidSalzman ...
In addition to the information that you've gotten from @Sandie and @KarlijnvanA, I wanted to mention there is a paid add-on from Cidi Labs called TidyUP that integrates with Canvas. At the previous College where I worked, we had TidyUP, and it helped with file and page clean-up quite a bit...though I don't know how many of our instructors actually used it (I know I did during course builds). If you would like to learn more about TidyUP, please check out this link:
TidyUP for Canvas File and Page Cleanup | Cidi Labs
This would need to be installed by your Canvas administrator because it would be a tool available for all courses at your school...not just your own course(s). Talk with your school's Canvas admin about potentially purchasing this product from Cidi Labs if this is of interest.
Take care...be well.
As an admin myself I would always recommend lecturers clean up any unused files etc., so they won't go over the storage limits.
In any course you can click on the files/pages etc. from the navigation bar on the left-hand side.
For pages click on "Pages" then view all pages, you can delete whatever you don't want to keep by click on the three dots next to the page.
By click on "Assignments" it will bring you direct to the assignment area and again click on the three dots next to the assignment to delete (be careful when you do this, always make sure there are not students' submissions beforehand otherwise it will all be gone)
For files you should see your course files when click "Files" and just do the same as pages to delete. There is an option for you to see all your files when you scroll to the bottom of the page. When you click on all my file at the bottom, It will list all of your files from different courses. I will not suggest you delete from there as it may confuse you and deleted the wrong files. Here is the link to show you how to delete file How do I delete a file or folder in Files? - Instructure Community - 617196
Hope this helps.
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