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It's funny you mentioning the images in announcements problem. I wonder if this is a technical issue with the way in which the announcements area is structured. Its just I remember before the wysiwyg editor was in place i.e. 6.1 was installed. I tried integrating images into an announcement just by pasting the standard html code in like you would normally do if wanting to integrate an image into a content area item. Normally when this was done in one of the content areas, Blackboard would recognise the img tag and prompt for the correct image to be uploaded. The image would then be included in the page. When I went to do this in the announcements area (without wysiwyg editor) it would refuse to pick up the img tag and prompt for the image to be uploaded. Just seems rather funny that now the wysiwyg editor is here the tool bar to insert images is missing. I got round the problem by uploading the images to a content area and making them invisible (unavailable) I then used the direct path of the uploaded images (obtained by right clicking the attached files in control panel) to insert into the img tags of the html code. A bit of a mission just to insert a couple of images I feel. Anthony Doyle Middlesbrough College -----Original Message----- From: John Edmonstone [mailto:[log in to unmask]] Sent: 28 April 2004 09:08 To: [log in to unmask] Subject: Re: Links within courses That's true Mark, I take your point. We should be getting BB to work for us, not working for it. Perhaps we should be compiling these small niggles with BB6 and forwarding them to the likes of Paul Grist. The issue about putting images in Announcements via the Text Box editor is another such one. John Edmonstone Cardonald College -----Original Message----- From: Eason, Mark [mailto:[log in to unmask]] Sent: 28 April 2004 09:06 To: 'John Edmonstone' Subject: RE: Links within courses The only problem with this is, if you then copy a course to change it's course code, for example to reflect that it will be active during the 04-05 academic year, the link becomes broken. For example, the current link for the document is http://blackboard.chichester.ac.uk/@@3d22f11fce309b14796ac009553b3451/co urse s/1/ILTFPP/content/_38370_1/practitioner_log.doc If I then rename the course code and delete the original, ILTFPP won't exist as a course and the link will become broken- not ideal, and if you're forced to make direct links to things you may a well just run an intranet! I thought Blackboard was supposed to make life easier! Thanks for the reply at any rate. Mark Eason ILT Administrator Chichester College -----Original Message----- From: John Edmonstone [mailto:[log in to unmask]] Sent: 27 April 2004 15:23 Subject: Re: Links within courses Mark I had the same problem, and if you look at the link that the Internal Link mechanism is creating (by right-clicking on the the link text and choosing properties) it is linking to a content area, or other area, not to a document. I have found a solution which is as follows: 1. Don't use the internal course link mechanism, but instead use add item. 2. In the text box for the add item switch to html. 3. Write an <a href=> link in here, using the absolute URL of the course document that you want to link to (derive this by right-clicking on the course document link and choosing properties). 4. Make sure, in the html, that you set the target to "_self" or it will not appear in the right frame. 5. Bingo, you have a link to a specific course document. This is clearly not ideal and requires some jiggery-pokery, but it does work. John Edmonstone Cardonald College -----Original Message----- From: Mark Eason [mailto:[log in to unmask]] Sent: 27 April 2004 14:48 To: [log in to unmask] Subject: Links within courses Hello everyone, I'm trying to set up a course site for our Ferl Practitioners Programme delivery, and as some of you will know, there are a number of shared modules between strands. I have built seperate content areas for each 'strand' (called Strand 1 through to Strand 5) and another content area for the core modules (called Core Modules somewhat imaginatively). Using the 'Course Link' button from within a content area I can link to another area, or a folder within that area. For example, From my Strand 1 area I can use the 'Course Link' button to link to the Core Modules area, and to a folder within the Core Modules area. What I don't appear to be able to do is link to a specific document, although the screen displayed when you form the link appears to let you select a specific document. Has anybody else experienced this, or am i missing a trick somewhere? Thanks Mark Eason ILT Administrator Chichester College ----- This e-mail and any attachments contain information which is confidential and privileged. The information is intended only for the use of the individual or entity to whom it is addressed. If you are not the intended recipient you are hereby notified that any disclosure, copying, distribution or the taking of any action in reliance on the contents of this e-mail is strictly prohibited.