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Creating anchors in items to link back to a table of contents

Question asked by fm0055825 on Feb 6, 2018
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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?

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grzegorc Feb 6, 2018 2:38 PM

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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emunoz Feb 7, 2018 2:15 AM

I have done something similar, adding as a first item some ToC that linked to lower items via anchors, either on the first line of the item or in the title of the item but in the end we decided not to work that way:

- if you add the anchor to the title of the item, it shows in the pop-up menu and other places as part of the title, and confuses users (looks like an error because they see "code")

-if you add the anchor to the first line of the item within the content editor, some elements (for example, files if I remember right) cannot use it as there is no content editor box where to add it. For the ones that have content editor, when you click the anchor in the ToC, it will go to the anchor, leaving the title of the item way too up and not visible.

These are small things but for the client that asked for it, it was enough to discard the idea and leave it the way it is.

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plandrey Feb 21, 2018 11:36 AM

To use Todd's code suggestion, I recommend building an HTML Object in your Content Collection. Then create an Item in the content folder of your choice and simply attach the HTML object in the text body. It works very well for us.

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grzegorc Feb 6, 2018 2:38 PM
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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.

HTML Tags/Link Tags/links to a named anchor - TAG index
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emunoz Feb 7, 2018 2:15 AM
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I have done something similar, adding as a first item some ToC that linked to lower items via anchors, either on the first line of the item or in the title of the item but in the end we decided not to work that way:
- if you add the anchor to the title of the item, it shows in the pop-up menu and other places as part of the title, and confuses users (looks like an error because they see "code")
-if you add the anchor to the first line of the item within the content editor, some elements (for example, files if I remember right) cannot use it as there is no content editor box where to add it. For the ones that have content editor, when you click the anchor in the ToC, it will go to the anchor, leaving the title of the item way too up and not visible.

These are small things but for the client that asked for it, it was enough to discard the idea and leave it the way it is.
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plandrey Feb 21, 2018 11:36 AM
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To use Todd's code suggestion, I recommend building an HTML Object in your Content Collection. Then create an Item in the content folder of your choice and simply attach the HTML object in the text body. It works very well for us.
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