{"id":5528,"date":"2025-03-19T20:14:00","date_gmt":"2025-03-20T00:14:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/websites.emerson.edu\/itg\/?p=5528"},"modified":"2025-03-19T20:14:27","modified_gmt":"2025-03-20T00:14:27","slug":"did-you-know-canvas-lets-you-update-files","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/websites.emerson.edu\/itg\/did-you-know-canvas-lets-you-update-files\/","title":{"rendered":"Did You Know: Canvas Lets You Update Files!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Updating your Canvas course semester to semester can be exciting. It can also be tedious when it comes to tasks like deleting old, inaccessible files, and uploading the new accessible version, and then updating all links. There is a better way! You can replace files, and all the links in your Canvas class will be updated automatically.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Here\u2019s how you do it:\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<ol>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Make sure the <\/span><b>name of the file you are about to upload is the same as the file you\u2019re looking to replace.<\/b><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Upload the new file to the Files area in your Canvas course. When you upload a file with an identical name to a file in the Files area, the Copy popup appears.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Click the Replace button, and Canvas will update your file in the Files area and everywhere the file is linked in your class. <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"><br \/>\n<\/span>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-5529\" src=\"https:\/\/websites.emerson.edu\/itg\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/44\/2025\/03\/Replace-Button.png\" alt=\"screenshot of replace button\" width=\"776\" height=\"492\" srcset=\"https:\/\/websites.emerson.edu\/itg\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/44\/2025\/03\/Replace-Button.png 776w, https:\/\/websites.emerson.edu\/itg\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/44\/2025\/03\/Replace-Button-300x190.png 300w, https:\/\/websites.emerson.edu\/itg\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/44\/2025\/03\/Replace-Button-768x487.png 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 776px) 100vw, 776px\" \/><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Updating your Canvas course semester to semester can be exciting. It can also be tedious when it comes to tasks like deleting old, inaccessible files, and uploading the new accessible&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3287,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_kad_post_transparent":"default","_kad_post_title":"default","_kad_post_layout":"default","_kad_post_sidebar_id":"","_kad_post_content_style":"default","_kad_post_vertical_padding":"default","_kad_post_feature":"","_kad_post_feature_position":"","_kad_post_header":false,"_kad_post_footer":false,"_kad_post_classname":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[2,3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5528","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-accessibility","category-canvas"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/websites.emerson.edu\/itg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5528","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/websites.emerson.edu\/itg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/websites.emerson.edu\/itg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/websites.emerson.edu\/itg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3287"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/websites.emerson.edu\/itg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5528"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/websites.emerson.edu\/itg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5528\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5531,"href":"https:\/\/websites.emerson.edu\/itg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5528\/revisions\/5531"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/websites.emerson.edu\/itg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5528"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/websites.emerson.edu\/itg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5528"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/websites.emerson.edu\/itg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5528"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}