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Subject:

Re: Links within courses - images in announcements

From:

Anthony Doyle <[log in to unmask]>

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Anthony Doyle <[log in to unmask]>

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Wed, 28 Apr 2004 09:29:45 +0100

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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



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