Control In-line Preview for linked documents - Insert a document link using the Rich Content Editor. Once the link is inserted, click the link then click "Link Options". Check the box to auto-open an inline preview for all users and save (or check the box to disable inline preview to require students to click the link).
Explore the Rich Content Editor (RCE) - It is much more than a text editor. Utilizing its features diversifies your online course content. Here are some ideas:
After embedding an image, you can alter its position by clicking it, then clicking the same buttons used to indent, center, and left- or right-align text. The image of Speedy Gonzales is styled to float to the right of the second list item.
Give students a direct link from one page to another by writing link text and highlighting it (or by inserting an image and highlighting it), then clicking the page to link to in the Content Selector at right. Example: Speedy Gonzales links to the page about SpeedGrader.
Make a button-styled link. After making a hyperlink, switch to the HTML Editor view and insert "Button" into the link's class field. The link tag begins "<a" and has id, title, class, and href fields, with values in quotation marks. Check out Canvas' Style Guide section on buttons.
Published versus Draft StateNext Module: Communication Tools
Give students a direct link from one page to another by writing link text and highlighting it (or by inserting an image and highlighting it), then clicking the page to link to in the Content Selector at right. Example: Speedy Gonzales links to the page about SpeedGrader.