Adding Links to the Calendar
Overview of tool
This tool can be used to add links to the calendar to items within WebCT. Links can be added to things like homework assignments or quizzes. This can be helpful for students because the calendar tool shows when the tool has been updated and new entries when the student first opens the tool.
Use of tool

First, go to the assignment (or quiz) that you want the student to be directed to from the calendar.

(suggestion: for assignments link to the turn in page for the assignment, and for quizzes link to the "start quiz page")

Right click in the white space of the page and select "properties" from the menu.

Copy the address of the page.

Note: The whole address might not be visible. Make sure to copy the whole address.

Go to the calendar tool and create an entry on the appropriate day. Give the entry a title and description. Choose a word to hyperlink to the assignment (or quiz). Use the <a href= insert address here> and </a> to create a hyperlink in the text. Paste the address for the page in place of the insert address here, and the word(s) to be hyperlinked between the two tags. When everything looks the way you want it to, update the entry.

Example:

In the highlighted text below:

  • Yellow: Marks the address of the assignment page
  • Green: Marks the HTML tags

First <a href=http://webct.udayton.edu/SCRIPT/04_WEBCT_101_20_2084972/scripts/student/
dropbox_view.pl?START+_side_nav++896632308>assignment</a> due today!!

After transferring from a DEV site
When transferring your site from a DEV site the links created above will become "broken," because they will be directing the webpage to the wrong area.  This problem  is easy to fix.

For every entry with at link:

  • Open the calendar entry, right click on the white space, and select properties (same as when acquiring address above)
  • This time copy only the course ID from the address
  • paste that ID into the same location in the address of the link created within the calendar entry
  • Click the "Update" button to submit the changes
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