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WebCT
Faculty Tip Sheets
Organizer Pages
Organizer pages allow you to group course tools into subsets to help you organize the elements in your course. For example, you may want to group all your communication tools (i.e. chat, discussion board, and mail) or study tools together. Links to organizer pages can appear on the Homepage and on the Course Menu. Each organizer page contains links to the tools in the grouping.
From an organizer page, you can:
- access any of the tools listed on the organizer page.
- add additional pages or tools.
- modify the links.
- change the appearance of the organizer page.
- create textblocks on the organizer page.
- add the organizer page and its elements to the Course Menu.
To add an organizer page to your course:
- From the Control Panel , select Add Page or Tool.
- In the Pages column, click Organizer Page . The Add Organizer Page screen appears.
- In the Enter a title for this item text box, enter the title as you want it to appear below the icon. Take care to ensure that the title reflects the content of the page.
- Under Decide where to show the link to this item, select where you want the link to be displayed.
- Click Add. The organizer page is added to your course.
To add items to your organizer page:
- From the Control Panel, click Add Page or Tool. The Add Page or Tool screen appears.
- Click the page or tool you want to add. The Add screen appears.
- In the Enter a title for this item text box, enter the title as you want it to appear.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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:
- Select Use custom icon.
- Next to the Choose regular icon text box, click Browse. The WebCT Browser appears.
- Select an icon. Tip: Icons are located in the WebCT-Files folder and in the icons sub-folder.
- Click Add Selected.
- Click Add. The page or tool is added to your course.
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