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How often does UDOIT scan my course content?

After UDOIT scans a course for the first time, changes are logged either through the Live Events feature, or through automatic scans upon opening the tool after a 24-hour window. Users without Live Events 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.

Live Events

We highly recommend that admins enable Live Events in Cidiscape or ReadyGO in order to activate this feature in UDOIT. With Live Events enabled, once a course has been scanned with Cidiscape or ReadyGO, UDOIT automatically refreshes in near real time to keep your accessibility results current. This means a faster workflow within UDOIT, as users don't have to initiate manual scans or wait for automatic scans to complete.

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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Additional Automatic Scans

If Live Events are not enabled at your institution, UDOIT relies on automatic scans to refresh your results. When you select UDOIT from the course menu, it will automatically run a scan to check your course for changes to content and files, if it has not already performed a scan within the last 24 hours.

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.

On-Demand Scanning

UDOIT provides two ways to scan the course on-demand (only needed if Live Events are not enabled).

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.

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