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What is a Course Link?

 

A "course link" is an ILIAS object with which you can create "links" within ILIAS. You probably know this function of the "linkt" from using your own laptop or desktop PC (see excursus).

Excursus: How the "link" works on a laptop or desktop PC
You want to place a program or folder in a specific location on your hard disk (internal memory of your device). For example, programs or apps are often stored on your hard disk under "C:Software". However, this location is deep within the system and can only be reached by several mouse clicks. This is where many people help themselves with a "link" for the object. You then place the link on your desktop view. In this way, you can quickly access what you want with just one mouse click, even though the desired object/software application is not directly saved on the desktop.

What can the Course Link be used for?

A course link can be used if you want to integrate an existing course (e.g. "Seminar: Introduction to Media Didactics") at several places on the ILIAS platform. Instead of always creating copies of the course you can use the course link to refer to a course centrally.

This has the advantage that you only have to administrate and maintain the contents of the course at one place (e.g. making corrections in texts) and do not have to do this several times in the copies of the course.

Example: Seminar "Introduction to Media Didactics"

The seminar "Introduction to Media Didactics" is virtually presented on the central learning platform via a customized ILIAS course. Together with other faculties, the teachers of the seminar have decided that the course and the corresponding ILIAS course should not only be available to students of the degree program "Instructional Design", but also to students of the bachelor's degree program in Psychology.
  • However, the ILIAS course would currently be placed as follows: Category "Summer Semester 2020" --> Faculty of Behavioural Sciences --> Degree Program "Instructional Design".
In order that the students of the bachelor's degree program in Psychology can now find and access the ILIAS course on the learning platform very quickly, the teachers would like to integrate the ILIAS course for these students in their field of study on ILIAS, i.e. under the course "Bachelor of Science in Psychology".
  • The course would then have to be placed at the following location: "Summer Semester 2020" --> Faculty of Behavioural Sciences --> Psychology --> Degree Program „Bachelor of Science in Psychology".
To avoid having to create a copy of the course and thus maintain the course in two different places in case of changes and innovations, create the original course as usual for the course "Instructional Design" and enter a "course link" for the degree program "Bachelor of Science in Psychology", which will then lead the students directly to the original course.

How does it work?

The following tutorial describes functionality and procedures in detail:

  • Tutorial "Kurslink (from the ILIAS-Online-Help)

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Zuletzt geändert: 31. Okt. 2024, 09:41, Sassiat (Admin), Daniel [sassiatadmin]