Allowing Students to Add Web Links

While you, as an instructor, can add web links (using the Web Links tool) to a course, you can also enable your students to add Web Links (keep in mind that only the author of a Web Link can remove it). To enable students to add web links you must:

• On the Build tab, enable the Web Links tool (select Manage Course à Tools and select the check box preceding the Web Links tool name under Content Tools and then select the Save button).
• On the Build tab, enable student Web Link creation (from the Manage Course screen select the Settings à Web Links option and set the “Allow Web Links to be created [by] roles other than designer” option button to True…then select the Save Values button).
• On the Teach tab, go to the Web Links tool and create a new Category (such as “Student Contributions” or whatever you want to call it). Add a description if you wish (such as “A place for you to share web links.”). Then select the “Allow Student to assign links to this category” option button and select the Save button.
• If you go to the Student View tab and select the Web Links tool, you’ll now see a Create Web Link button for the student to use.