Linking to Rise HTML module

[RichardPrince66]

Hi,

We are just starting out with Canvas, transitioning from Blackboard over the next year. I have a series of Articulate Rise modules that I have uploaded to the Canvas files area. I have set them so that they are only accessible to students with the link. So far so good. However, when I place a link to the Index.html file in a Canvas page, Canvas treats it as a file that should be downloaded. It opens, but with a banner at the top  - like a file preview. I don't want to lose that much screen space and the message to students that they can download the file or get alternative formats is confusing (and pointless).

I have also tried embedding the files within a Canvas page. That also works, but even more screen space is lost as the course tools menus as present on the left (even minimised they take up space). Is there a way to force Canvas to treat an internal link the same as it would an external one? I don't have this issue with Blackboard, which makes me kind of nostalgic.

Thanks in advance

Richard

University of Manchester

[PaulNagami]

I just tried the following on one of my shells:

• Uploaded an .html file to my files that was just a simple test file, tester.html, that contained text to that effect.
• Right-clicked on it in the file view and copied the link. This gave: https://wvm.instructure.com/files/[SOME NUMBER]/download?download_frd=1
• I then removed the stuff from download on, so it ended in the number and /
• Made a page and put in that link.
• On clicking in student preview mode, it opened that html in a new tab.

It worked for that very simple test page, but I can't guarantee it would work for a more complicated file... especially not if it had any links to material outside of the same domain. Good luck!

[RichardPrince66 · Accepted solution]

Thanks Paul. I tried this solution and unfortunately it did not work. However, I found that if you replace the download text with preview e.g. 

https://xxx.instructure.com/files/xxxxx/download?download_frd=1  

becomes 

https://xxx.instructure.com/files/xxxxx /preview

then it works in the way I want: you get the lesson opening in a new window with no option to download or convert forms. I also found that this only works if you edit the url when you paste it into the external link dialogue. Trying to do it afterwards via the HTML editor, I found there was a lot of extra code present that I did not really understand and simply changing the url at that point failed to remove the download option.

Best wishes

Richard