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How often does UDOIT scan my course content?

UDOIT automatically scans your course's new (previously un-scanned) content when you select it from the course menu after a 24-hour window from its last scan. You can scan on-demand at any time.

Initial Scan

The first time you select the UDOIT link from your Canvas course menu, UDOIT will automatically scan through all of your course content and files to generate an initial report.

You will see the following message while UDOIT completes its scanning process:

A banner will appear at the top of UDOIT with a blue spinning while when a scan is in progress.

Additional Automatic Scans

After UDOIT performs any automatic scan (occurring when it is selected from the course menu), it will not automatically scan again when you select its course menu link for the next 24 hours. 

Once a 24-hour window has passed, and you select UDOIT from the Canvas course menu, UDOIT will automatically look through your course for any content that has been added or edited since its previous scan.

As an example: If you selected UDOIT from the course menu at 1pm today, and received the "UDOIT is scanning the course content for accessibility issues" message, selecting UDOIT tomorrow at 8am would not launch another automatic scan, but selecting it tomorrow at 2pm would.

This is to ensure that your workflow is not interrupted by the automatic scanning process.

UDOIT provides two ways to scan the course on-demand.

On-Demand Scanning

  • Scan New/Edited Content

    • Whenever you would like UDOIT to scan content that you've added or edited since the last time the course was scanned, you can use the Scan Now button.

      Scan Now UI Update

  • Full Rescan

    • If, for any reason, you would like UDOIT to start over and run a full scan of your entire course content from scratch, you may:

      1. Select the kebab menu in the upper right,
      2. and choose the Full Rescan option.
        Users may kick off a full rescan of all course content and files by selecting the kebab menu and selecting "full rescan."
    • Running a Full Rescan of content will retain the "resolved" status of any items you have previously marked as resolved.

Scanning with Cidiscape Live Events

In addition to the various scanning methods found natively within UDOIT, instructors and institutional admins can also utilize Cidiscape Live Events to ensure that courses are being scanned and data being reported is up-to-date.

With Live Events enabled, when a change is made within a Canvas course, Cidiscape receives a notification, and that course will immediately be added to the scan queue rather than waiting for a scan to be triggered by a user within the UDOIT interface. 

Don't have Cidiscape and want to learn more? Visit the Cidiscape User Guide for more details about this amazing reporting tool. And by the way... it's FREE! 

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