[Using Sakai] Assignment URLs in a lessons page?

Steve Swinsburg steve.swinsburg at gmail.com
Thu Jan 2 18:36:42 PST 2014


Can you get a link to the assignment via entity broker?  I thought there
was a provider to give you direct links.

Cheers
Steve

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On 01/01/2014 9:23 AM, "Marshall Feldman" <marsh at uri.edu> wrote:

> I'm not sure if what I do is what you mean by "manually browsing
> around," but here's the kludge I use. At the bottom of the Lessons page
> in question, I put an html block with a dashed line and text saying to
> ignore everything below here. Then under the line I put any
> user-unfriendly Lessons blocks I need. Back above the line, I compose my
> HTML pages how I want them. When I need a link to the user-unfriendly
> stuff, I just right-click, copy the link, and put it in the nicely
> formatted stuff above the line.
>
> In some cases, I'm even able to hide a lessons page, insert all the
> blocks on it that want, copy a URL, and then go to unhidden pages and
> insert the link wherever I need it.
>
> Hope this helps. Even more, I hope Lessons fixes this obvious need.
>
>
> On 12/30/13 [Dec 30, 13] 12:00 PM, Gregory Guthrie wrote:
> > Assignment URLs in a lessons page?
>
> Is there any way to have a single page Lessons block, and include links to
> assignments in it?
>
> Having to  have individual blocks for every item in every assignment seems
> too piecemeal to me; and I typically have a single document with a list of
> assignments, readings, descriptions, etc.
>
> I understand that if one wanted to have individual pages for every lesson
> that might be also a reasonable structure, but I prefer to have the entire
> wholeness of the flow in one place.
>
> I can insert URLs for resources, but not for assignments associated with a
> lesson that I can see.
>
> I'd be happy to just have this as a html page under another tab instead of
> Lessons, but fined the same problem, html (easily) cannot link to
> assignments.
>
> [Yes, I've seen before that I can manually browse around and copy URLs of
> assignment pages as a fallback.]
>
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