Staff Guide: How to direct students to your course and the different items within it. How to share a short and accessible link to students.
Link to your course
- Go to the Blackboard course.
- Copy the URL address of the course page. Right-click (Shift-F10) inside the address bar and select copy.
You can create shorter links with the UoS URL shortening service.
If the course is set to Self-Enrol, you can send any course URL to students and they will see a self-enrollment page. From there, students can join the course by selecting Submit.
Only recipeients with a University of Southampton IT account will be able to self-enrol. They will be prompted to log in to Blackboard before they can enrol on the course.
Link to a menu item or particular content item
Use Course Links to create internal shortcuts within a course.
Share the link and make it accessible
Embed the link in text that can be read out by a screenreader, rather than just pasting the ULR. Highlight some descriptive text and then select add link from the text editor menu.
- Good practice: Visit the Introduction to Digital Accessibility course.
- Not accessible: Follow this link: https://go.soton.ac.uk/access1001
- Not accessible: Follow this link.
If the link is sent outside of Blackboard, the recipient is required to log into Learn.