Posting WebEx Links in your Blackboard Learn Course
- 1. Posting WebEx Links in Your Blackboard Learn Course
- 2. If you set up a WebEx meeting and send a copy of that link to your email so that you can cut and paste it into your course, the link can carry additional html code from the email when you paste the link in your course as a hyperlink. This is especially true of copying and pasting hyperlinks from Outlook Webmail accounts. If you do not check this using the html editor hyperlink icon, you could inadvertently carry over extra html code directing students back to the email address and prompting them to log in to Webmail for instance. The following are examples of not-problematic and problematic html code for a WebEx link.
- 3. Problematic <p><span style="color: #333333; font-family: CiscoSans,Arial; font-size: small;" face="CiscoSans,Arial" color="#333333" size="2"><span style="font-size: 14px;"><span style="color: #333333; font-size: small;" color="#333333" size="2"><span style="font-size: 14px;"><span style="color: #333333; font-size: small;" color="#333333" size="2"><span style="font-size: 14px;"><a href="https://webmail.rasmussen.edu/owa/redir.aspx?C=ifSWDzfy8kK- OWyz0qehTVhSrW5hWtMI6fv6biGEZQIs- 7ZtEgksT98p7gEvIZfSzl4LBlStNyM.&URL=https%3a%2f%2frasmussen.webex.co m%2fjoin%2fOfficeofProfessionalDevelopment" target="_blank"><span style="color: #0066cc; font-family: CiscoSans Light,Arial;" face="CiscoSans Light,Arial" color="#0066CC">https://rasmussen.webex.com/join/OfficeofProfessionalDevelopm ent</span></a></span></span></span></span></span></span></p> Problematic code will reference webmail after the “a herf” hyperlink prefix, and the “redir” redirect signifier will be found after the url.
- 4. Not Problematic <p><ahref="https://rasmussen.webex.com/join /hybrid.classrooms">https://rasmussen.webex. com/join/hybrid.classrooms</a></p> Non-problematic code will reference “rasmussen.webex.com” after the “a herf” hyperlink prefix.
- 5. To ensure that you are not using a problematic link, use the HTML editor to review the hyperlink code.
- 6. As you can see, this hyperlink pasted directly from Webmail, contains problematic redirect code:
- 7. To solve this issue, highlight the hyperlink and then select the Remove Link icon:
- 8. Next, highlight the WebEx URL that you want hyperlinked and select the Insert/Edit Link icon:
- 9. To verify that the new hyperlink is not problematic, check the HTML code:
- 10. You should see your WebEx meeting URL information after the “a href=” hyperlink prefix in the code: