Add Page or Tool

About add page or tool

Note: If you want to add an external program to your course, see Linking to an External Program.

Add Page or Tool allows you to add elements to your course. You can also select where links to those elements will appear. Links to Organizer pages can appear on:

  • the Course Menu
  • the Homepage

Links to tools, single pages, and URLs can appear on:

  • the Course Menu
  • the Homepage
  • an Organizer Page

What do you want to do?

Adding tools and Organizer Pages | Top

Note: If you are adding the Calendar tool, the Discussions tool, or the Mail tool to your course, go to Adding Calendar, Discussions, and Mail.

  1. From the Control Panel, click Add Page or Tool. The Add Page or Tool screen appears.
  2. Click the page or tool you want to add. The Add screen appears.
  3. In the Enter a title for this item text box, enter the title as you want it to appear.
  4. Under Decide where to show the link to this item, select where you want the link to be displayed. Note: You can select both options.
    • To add the link to the Course Menu, select On the Course Menu.
    • To add the link to an organizer page, select On an Organizer Page. From the drop-down list, select an existing organizer page.
  5. If you selected to display the item on an organizer page, select the appearance of the link:
    • To have the link appear as text only, select Link shows item title.
    • To have the link appear as an icon only, select Link shows icon.
    • To have the link appear as an icon with a text title, select both Link shows item title and Link shows icon.
  6. If you selected to display an icon, select an icon image file:
    • To use the WebCT default icon, select Use default icon.
    • To use a custom icon:
      1. Select Use custom icon.
      2. Next to the Choose icon text box, click Browse. The WebCT Browser appears.
      3. Select the icon file. The Add screen appears, and the filename you selected appears in the Choose icon text box.
  7. Click Add. The page or tool is added to your course. Note: If you have added the page or tool to an organizer page, the Homepage or Organizer Page appears. From there, you can edit the page or tool by clicking it.

Adding Calendar, Discussions, and Mail | Top

  1. From the Control Panel, click Add Page or Tool. The Add Page or Tool screen appears.
  2. Click the page or tool you want to add. The Add screen appears.
  3. In the Enter a title for this item text box, enter the title as you want it to appear.
  4. Under Decide where to show the link to this item, select where you want the link to be displayed. Note: You can select both options.
    • To add the link to the Course Menu, select On the Course Menu.
    • To add the link to an organizer page, select On an Organizer Page. From the drop-down list, select an existing organizer page.
  5. If you selected to display the item on an organizer page, select the appearance of the link:
    • To have the link appear as text only, select Link shows item title.
    • To have the link appear as an icon only, select Link shows icon.
    • To have the link appear as an icon with a text title, select both Link shows item title and Link shows icon.
  6. If you selected to display an icon, select an icon image file:
    • To use the WebCT default icon, select Use default icon.
    • To use a custom icon:
      1. Select Use custom icon.
      2. Next to the Choose regular icon text box, click Browse. The WebCT Browser appears.
      3. Select a Calendar, Discussions, or Mail icon file that does not contain "new" in the filename (e.g. mail.jpg). The Add screen appears, and the filename you selected appears in the Choose regular icon text box.
      4. You can select a different icon to appear when Calendar, Discussions, or Mail contain new entries or messages. To select a new messages icon, next to the Choose icon to announce new messages text box, click Browse. The WebCT Browser appears.
      5. Select a Calendar, Discussions, or Mail icon file that contains "new" in the filename (e.g. mail_new.jpg). The Add screen appears and the filename you selected appears in the Choose icon to announce new messages text box.
  7. Click Add. The page or tool is added to your course. Note: If you have added the page or tool to an organizer page, the Homepage or Organizer Page appears. From there, you can edit the page or tool by clicking it.

Adding a Single Page | Top

You can add a single page of content to your course and create a link to the page from the Course Menu, the Homepage, or an Organizer Page. However, it is recommended that you add most of your course content to a Content Module where the content can be organized in a table of contents and you can use Track Pages to monitor each student's progress through the material.

Note: Only HTML or text files can be added as single pages.

  1. From the Control Panel, click Add Page or Tool. The Add Page or Tool screen appears.
  2. Under Pages, click Single Page. The Add screen appears.
  3. In the Enter a title for this item text box, enter the title as you want it to appear.
  4. Next to the Page filename text box, click Browse. The WebCT Browser appears. Select the file. The Add screen appears, and the filename you selected appears in the Page filename text box.
  5. For Open in, select the browser window in which you want the page to display.
  6. If you are adding a single page that contains a hyperlink to a web site or another file in your course, and you want to display Close, Back, and Forward navigation buttons at the top of the page, select Show navigation buttons. Note: Navigation buttons can only be displayed in a New browser window.
  7. Under Decide where to show the link to this item, select where you want the link to be displayed. Note: You can select both options.
    • To add the link to the Course Menu, select On the Course Menu.
    • To add the link to an organizer page, select On an Organizer Page. From the drop-down list, select an existing organizer page.
  8. If you selected to display the item on an organizer page, select the appearance of the link:
    • To have the link appear as text only, select Link shows item title.
    • To have the link appear as an icon only, select Link shows icon.
    • To have the link appear as an icon with a text title, select both Link shows item title and Link shows icon.
  9. If you selected to display an icon, select an icon image file:
    • To use the WebCT default icon, select Use default icon.
    • To use a custom icon:
      1. Select Use custom icon.
      2. Next to the Choose icon text box, click Browse. The WebCT Browser appears.
      3. Select the icon file. The Add screen appears, and the filename you selected appears in the Choose icon text box.
  10. Click Add. The page is added to your course. Note: If you have added the page to an organizer page, the Organizer page appears. From there, you can update the link to the page by clicking it.

Adding a URL | Top

You can add a link to a web page to your course.

  1. From the Control Panel, click Add Page or Tool. The Add Page or Tool screen appears.
  2. Under Pages, click URL. The Add screen appears.
  3. In the Enter a title for this item text box, enter the title as you want it to appear.
  4. In the Address text box, enter the URL address you want to add.
  5. For Open in, select the browser window in which you want the page to display.
  6. Under Decide where to show the link to this item, select where you want the link to be displayed. Note: You can select both options.
    • To add the link to the Course Menu, select On the Course Menu.
    • To add the link to an organizer page, select On an Organizer Page. From the drop-down list, select an existing organizer page.
  7. If you selected to display the item on an organizer page, select the appearance of the link:
    • To have the link appear as text only, select Link shows item title.
    • To have the link appear as an icon only, select Link shows icon.
    • To have the link appear as an icon with a text title, select both Link shows item title and Link shows icon.
  8. If you selected to display an icon, select an icon image file:
    • To use the WebCT default icon, select Use default icon.
    • To use a custom icon:
      1. Select Use custom icon.
      2. Next to the Choose icon text box, click Browse. The WebCT Browser appears.
      3. Select the icon file. The Add screen appears, and the filename you selected appears in the Choose icon text box.
  9. Click Add. The URL is added to your course. Note: If you have added the URL to an organizer page, the Organizer page appears. From there, you can update the link to the URL by clicking it.



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