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Linking to a file from the Welcome Page
If you would like to link to a file from your Welcome Page you have a couple of options. If your syllabus is already included in your faculty web folder you simply link to that file. The convention for the html to do this would be something like:
- Check out the <a href="http://faculty.ccri.edu/yourusername/filename.htm"> Syllabus </a> for this course.
- Where yourusername would be replaced with your folder name (e.g. jdoe for John Doe) and your filename.htm would be replaced with the name of your file (e.g. syllabus.htm)
If you have your file, for instance your syllabus, within your WebCT course, you need to copy it to the public area on the WebCT server and then link to it. (Otherwise it is password protected and people have to login to have access to it.) To move your file to the public area and link to it, follow these steps:
- Make sure your file(s) is uploaded to your My-Files folder in your course
- From the Change Settings option on the navigation bar, select Create/Edit Welcome Page.
- Select Designer Options
- Choose: Add an upper (or lower) textblock - Go.
- Scroll down to the Image field and click on the Browse button
- Select the file you want to link to. It can be *any* file type.
- Click Update to save the textblock. WebCT will then copy that file to the course public folder.
- Then choose Edit textblock for the same textblock and remove the filename from the image field. You can add as many files to the public folder as you like using this method. You can also replace/update previously copied files by simply copying them again.
Once a file is in the public folder, you can link to it using the filename only... and users won't be prompted for username and password.
Your link should look like this example (replacing your own filename with "myAcrobatfile.pdf")
<a href="myAcrobatfile.pdf" target="_self">Link to another file</a>.
If you have any questions about this process or need help, please call the Help Desk at 825-1112.
