Is there any way that I can link from a table of contents in one item to separate items within a course page? For example, links to Lesson 1, Lesson 2, Lesson 3 etc., further down the course page. I thought this would be a relatively easy thing to do, but it looks as if this is not possible in Blackboard. We were originally using the Learning Module layout for a client but a third party client who is vetting their online courses has insisted that we use the generic, linear item below item below item layout. There is, unavoidably, a lot of content on each course page so we would like to make it easier for the students to navigate between items.
Is there any way of doing this that I'm just not aware of?
What you appear to be describing is the old HTML process of linking to a named anchor, vs linking to another URL. You can still do this but the process of doing this may no longer be available in newer versions of HTML. The process involves creating anchor tags with a name, where the links will jump to, and then anchor tags in your table of contents using the # followed by the anchor tag name to jump to.
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