ARCHIVED: Oncourse Resources: Working with web links
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Important:
Oncourse is retired. For details, see ARCHIVED: About the Oncourse retirement.
Note:
To complete these procedures, you must be assigned a role having the necessary permissions. If you're not sure what your role is, see the "Role" column in the Roster tool. For permissions, see ARCHIVED: What can I do in read-only Oncourse?
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Adding a web link
To add a Resources item that is a URL to a website:
- In your site's menubar, click .
- Next to the folder to which you want to add the URL, from the menu, click .
- For each resource, type the URL in the box. (You may omit the
http://
prefix.) - Add a title for your URL link resource. If you don't add a title, the URL will be used as the title of the resource.
- To add a description, and control access and visibility, click
- Next to "Description", enter text to describe the site to which you're linking.
- Under "Availability and Access", control who can access the URL
and when it's available, as follows:
- To display the resource to site members only, select . (This option is not available if the folder to which you're adding the resource is publicly viewable.)
- To share the resource with another site to which you belong (e.g., as an attachment to a syllabus item for another course or project you're leading), select . (This option is not available if the folder to which you're adding the resource is publicly viewable.)
- To display the resource only to selected groups, select ARCHIVED: Managing groups.) , and then select the group(s) that should have access. (This option does not appear if you don't have any groups in your site; for more, see
- To show or hide your resource, or set a beginning and/or ending date for its visibility, click the appropriate selections. (This option does not appear when you're adding an item to Resources in My Workspace.) Site administrators will always be able to see hidden items, even when they are hidden from other users.
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To add detailed descriptors, click
. You can then add information to the following fields:- Alternate Title
- Creator
- Publisher
- Subject and Keywords
- Date Created
- Date Issued
- Abstract
- Contributor
- Audience
- Audience Education Level
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- To add another URL, click
Note: To remove a URL from the list of URLs to add, click the red
next to it. .
- Next to "Email Notification", specify whether or not you want to have members of the site notified automatically via email when the resource is posted. The notification email message will include the website title, description (if present), and URL. (This option does not appear when you're adding an item to Resources in My Workspace.)
- Click .
Editing a web link's details
To edit the name, description, or availability and access settings for a web link, from the
menu next to the link's name, click . Make your changes, and then click to save them.Updating a web link
To change the URL for a web link, from the
menu next to the link's name, click . Make your change, and then click .
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Last modified on 2018-01-18 15:48:45.