Learning Commons:Student Orientation/Working With Content/Adding Media and Links/Adding Links

Step1: Look for links

Twitter is a great way to look for new links:

• Check what the followers are tweeting and see if there are useful links.
• Sometimes, followers tweet useful links to @UBCLearn.

After you find the link, proceed to step 2.

Step 2: Review the link and decide where to put the links

Review the link and ask the following questions:

• Is this link relevant to the Learning Commons site? (or is it learning/academic related?)
• Did you find this link useful? Will you recommend this link to your classmate?
• Is this link professional? (i.e. Check if the information in the link is not outdated, does not have a clickbaits and pop-ups, does not infringe copyright,etc..)

After you reviewed the link, make a decision on where to put the link. For example a link to mindmapping resource - http://wiki.ubc.ca/Mind_Mapping_Resources may be appropriate for Note Taking Toolkit page, Critical Thinking Toolkit page. If you are writing a blog post related to this link, you can also add this link to the blog post.

Step3: Adding the links to the page

1. In order to add related links, Copy the code below, and paste it in the bottom of the page:

[accordions]
[accordion title="Related Links"]

add related links here

[/accordion]
[/accordions]

1. You will then add links in in the text that says "add related links here". Click on the bullet list icon to create a new list
2. After you created the list , type the title of the link. Highlight the text, and click on the Insert/Edit link button.
3. In the URL, enter the URL of the link, and then press Add link
4. If you want to add more links, press Enter on your keyboard and repeat step 1~2.

Link Management

In order to maintain broken links, use a broken link checker to maintain the site once in a while If you are using Mac, you can install Integrity (Mac) to check broken links on the site.