I was almost finished with the roughed out versions of three courses in Canvas, looking toward summer, waiting for the campus installation to open so I can upload them and tinker.<\/p>\n
It\u2019s taken me months.<\/p>\n
So today I pick up my phone, which I do not use in the profligate way experienced by most Americans, to see how they look on the Canvas app.<\/p>\n
None of my images were there.<\/p>\n
Now, we\u2019re not just talking a few images. We\u2019re talking 16 images on the Home page, one for each week, in a grid. The same week\u2019s image on the week\u2019s intro page, images to demonstrate many pages in learning units, about 12-15 images in each weekly lecture. They were all broken.<\/p>\n
When I switched to my mobile browser, they were all there. I contacted support. He guessed that it could be because my images are all linked from my outside server, all http (not https). I know the difference because I can only embed things from my server if I use the https format. But I had no idea there was a problem displaying images, because they all display just fine in any browser.<\/p>\n
But not in the Canvas app. The helper explained that all the browsers are going SSL anyway, so really everything needed to be https. We\u2019re talking hundreds of hours of work, changing every link in hundreds of pages, quizzes, discussions, learning units, all of which have my images. I asked about global search and replace? in a site? No. In a course? No. On a page<\/em>, for goshsakes? No.<\/p>\n The light at the end of my tunnel had become an oncoming train of work. If I didn\u2019t do it, every course that rolled over in future semesters would similarly not be https, and students won\u2019t see the images in the app.<\/p>\n I began. Several hours copying home pages, search and replace, pasting back in. But single images on single pages were much harder, and mind-deadening. I\u2019m not actually sure I can do this. I considered ways to do it, by week or by item type. I considered making a chart. I considered paying someone else to do it. \u00a0I considered early retirement.<\/p>\n