ARCHIVED: Oncourse Web Content tool: Overview

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Important:

Oncourse is retired. For details, see ARCHIVED: About the Oncourse retirement.

What it does

The Web Content tool allows site owners to add a link to an external website, or Web Content item, to the site's menubar.

Key concepts

Links: To set up a Web Content link, you can specify the URL for any website and a brief descriptive title. A link will appear in the menubar with the title you've chosen.

Multiple links: You may add multiple Web Content links to your menubar.

Things to consider

If you want to provide many links to websites for your course or project participants, you can avoid cluttering your menubar by listing most of them in the Resources tool; see ARCHIVED: Working with web links in Resources.
Departments, collaborations, or other groups may use the Web Content tool to provide a prominent link to their public worksites.
Some websites will automatically launch in a new window instead of within the Oncourse frame. Others may have coding that prevents them from opening within a frame (i.e., the page will take over the whole browser when you click the link, rather than displaying within the application).
Note: Recent versions of Firefox and Internet Explorer may block some links to external websites and embedded content, such as videos. For more, see ARCHIVED: Problems seeing linked websites or videos.

Help documentation

For help documentation about the Web Content tool, see ARCHIVED: Web Content.