Create Course Links

Introduction

Course Links are shortcuts used to link to items within a course (module). All items that appear in the Course Menu may be linked to using a Course Link. They are useful shortcut links to other areas of your Blackboard course. All items that appear in the Course Menu may be linked to using a Course Link. Course links allow you to place a link within one part of your Blackboard course, which when clicked on by a student will take them to any other part of your Blackboard course that you have chosen.

Course links can be useful for referring students to other areas of your course. For example next to some slides in a folder within Course Documents you could place a link to a discussion forum and ask students to discuss points raised in the lecture notes. Instructors will find this tool useful in directing students down a pre-defined path in their learning experience.

Creating a Course Link

1. Login to Blackboard
2. Ensure your Edit mode is on
3. Select Course Link under Build Content
   
    
   
   In this example, we will create a Discussion Board link in Week 1 to discuss the learning outcome of Week 1
   
   
4. Under Choose Item browse for the item you wish to link to
   Once chosen, this will populate the Name and Location
   
    
   
   
5. Set the Options for the Course Link
6. Select Submit to execute
   
   Week 2 now contains a Course Link to a Discussion Board