[Using Sakai] Assignment URLs in a lessons page?

[Marshall Feldman]

Don't know what entity broker is. We used to have a feature in the CK 
Editor that allowed one to browse, find quizzes, etc., and insert the 
links into a document. This broke around Version 8 or 9 of Sakai.


On 1/2/14 [Jan 2, 14] 6:36 PM, Steve Swinsburg wrote:
>
> Can you get a link to the assignment via entity broker?  I thought 
> there was a provider to give you direct links.
>
> Cheers
> Steve
>
> sent from mobile
>
> On 01/01/2014 9:23 AM, "Marshall Feldman" <marsh at uri.edu 
> <mailto: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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