Types of content scanned by the file scanner

Brightspace Learning Repository scans all content you are publishing to find linked files, such as images, media files, and other HTML pages.

The file scanner has some limitations:

• The file grabber only scans .htm, .html, .js, and .inc files.
• Brightspace Learning Repository only packages .gif, .png, .jpg, .bmp, .css, .swf, .inc, .js, .doc, .fla, .pdf, .txt, .mov, .wav, .wmv, .asf, .mpg, .ram, .mp3, .rm, .pk, .htm, and .html files for publication.
• Only syntactic JavaScript matches are made by the file grabber, not semantic matches, and only in a window.open call. For example, if you pass a file name to a function that calls window.open on that file name, the file is not packaged because the file name was not in the window.open, only the variable name was there. You can manually add any file that the scanner did not automatically include. The files that you add become part of the learning object.
• The scanner skips links to web files, for example, www.google.com, non-existent files, or files without extensions.