{"id":11975,"date":"2025-09-08T13:14:31","date_gmt":"2025-09-08T20:14:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/at.csudh.edu\/canvas\/?p=11975"},"modified":"2025-09-08T13:14:32","modified_gmt":"2025-09-08T20:14:32","slug":"student-tip-keep-file-names-simple-for-canvas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/at.csudh.edu\/canvas\/student-tip-keep-file-names-simple-for-canvas\/","title":{"rendered":"Student Tip: Keep File Names Simple for Canvas"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\"><a>\ud83d\udd51<\/a> <em>Estimated reading time: 1 minute<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\">When uploading files to your course, keep file names <strong>simple and short<\/strong>. Use <strong>letters, numbers, hyphens (-), and underscores (_)<\/strong> to avoid compatibility issues.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\"><em>Note: While spaces are generally okay, using hyphens or underscores is often preferred for clarity.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\"><strong>Avoid using these special characters in file names:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\">\\&nbsp; \/&nbsp; :&nbsp; *&nbsp; ?&nbsp; &#8221; &nbsp;&lt;&nbsp; &gt; &nbsp;|<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\"><strong>Examples of simple, clear file names:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li class=\"has-medium-font-size\">teddyt-fall-2025-introduction.docx<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li class=\"has-medium-font-size\">teddyt_fall_2025_presentation.pptx<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li class=\"has-medium-font-size\">teddyt eng100 bibliography.pdf<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\ud83d\udd51 Estimated reading time: 1 minute When uploading files to your course, keep file names simple and short. Use letters, numbers, hyphens (-), and underscores (_) to avoid compatibility issues. Note: While spaces are generally okay, using hyphens or underscores is often preferred for clarity. Avoid using these special characters in file names: \\&nbsp; \/&nbsp;&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"iawp_total_views":158,"footnotes":""},"categories":[512],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11975","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-updates"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/at.csudh.edu\/canvas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11975","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/at.csudh.edu\/canvas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/at.csudh.edu\/canvas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/at.csudh.edu\/canvas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/at.csudh.edu\/canvas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11975"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/at.csudh.edu\/canvas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11975\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12122,"href":"https:\/\/at.csudh.edu\/canvas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11975\/revisions\/12122"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/at.csudh.edu\/canvas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11975"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/at.csudh.edu\/canvas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11975"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/at.csudh.edu\/canvas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11975"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}