External Website Access Within a Course

As an instructor, you might like to provide access to a special website to assist with your students' ability to find useful information about your subject matter. Here are instructions so that you can embed a website into your course. Examples of websites that might be helpful to include are: Wikipedia, Dictionary.com, Reference.com, but I'd be willing to bet you've already got your own favorites.

Embedding a website page from outside content is quite easy. Here are the steps:

1. Go to the Author side of the course.

2. Go to Course Home and the Course Items button, or the "Unit" tab you want this to reside under and then click "Unit" Content Items. (You might call your "Units" Modules or Chapters or Sections, so substitute accordingly.)

3. Click on Add Items.

4. Do what is required to create a new Content Item, and for the "Item type:" select Text/Multimedia.

5. At the bottom right corner click Add Items.

6. Within the left navigation, click on the newly created item, still in Author mode.

7. At the bottom of the Visual Editor window, click HTML.

8. Copy and paste the following code into the window, which will provide the iframe structure you need:

<iframe src="http://www.websitehere.com" width="100%" height="100%">

Your browser does not support iframes.</iframe>

9. Replace the website's URL in the code above with your own external website's address.

10. At the bottom right corner of the Visual Editor window, click Save Changes.

As long as the website you've chosen allows it to be displayed in frames, you should be finished, otherwise you'll need to change to another URL that does.

Click on the Course side tab and see how the embedded website looks on the page.

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