After Helen's excellent presentation, I thought about URL or Web Link, and that maybe it should be just External Link
A lot of links are not to websites. It may be a website, a skype link, an email link, a link to a broadcast client (real audio etc..)
So maybe the "External Link" detects the type of protocol being used and shows the correct icon (which can be managed in theme)
Here are just some examples.
WebLink http://
secure website https://
File Link ftp://
Email Link mailto:
Skype skype:
Real Audio rtsp://
Anyhow thats just my thoughts.
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I'm going to watch Helen's presentation at leisure when I am not distracted multitasking - and I agree about External Link Many teachers I work with don't know the term URL.
We could even consider the really plain 'Link'. Less is more.
yep; that too.
I prefer "External link". Two words is not long and it is very clear and will be easy to translate. "Link" only is ambigous IMHO.
But then again, there are resource links to internal course pages, in which case 'External link' is confusing.
I suggest, against all odds, 'Linked resource'.
I suggest, against all odds, 'Linked resource'.
Would the links to internal course pages use the "external link" resource? I thought the premise was to separate internal and external links.
I was not aware of that. I've looked up planned changes but could only find "Refactored all the submodules into real modules (file, folder, url, page, ims)". I guess that under that premise internal links would be a sort of shortcuts to existing Resources/Activities. That's good. And then 'external link' would probably be a good naming choice for the external links.
Don't know yet how distinct internal links are going to be implemented but here is one relevant consideration. I usually put course info and materials in a book. I then reference specific chapters from various places on the course and when from the main page the reference may be by means of the link resource. Moreover I frequently link the print view of the chapter rather than the book view. So that would be a link to an internal web page which does not really exist but is rather generated upon request. If distinct internal links will work on an actual (or virtual) repository of course resources/activities, the links I've described may not be covered. And so it may be "external linking" of internal pages which may be confusing.