Posting a URL in a Content File or ICON Course Tool

ICON’s built-in HTML editor allows you to insert a link to an external website (URL) when you are creating a content file; a discussion forum, topic, or message; a quiz or survey question; an assignment dropbox instruction; a personal homepage (MyPage) file; a news article; or a calendar posting.

To insert a URL while creating the item:

From within the file, forum, quiz question, etc., click the icon to open the HTML editor, and click the Advanced tab (if necessary).
Inside the text box, place the cursor where you wish to insert the URL and click Insert QuickLink.
From the Category droplist, select URL.
Enter the URL.
Enter the Link Caption (the words you want students to click on in order to access the URL).
Select a display mode:

Whole Window – Other ICON Frames are no longer visible. To get back to the ICON course, the student must continue clicking the browser’s back arrow.
Same Frame – Other ICON frames and controls, including the NavBar, are still visible.
New Window – A second browser window opens, displaying the external website.

Click Insert.
Enter the rest of your text and then click Save.

15 July 2008

Displaying Course and Personal Links in a Homepage Widget

All the links you have posted with the Links tool are also displayed (automatically) in the User Links widget. You can also use this widget to post links that are visible only to you. To edit the links students see in this widget, you need to use the Links tool.