How I did this now is through creating explicit links to the desired pages with Ctrl+k.
However, this does not work when using the course as a template. That is, when teachers copy the template course, the links in that copy are not within that copy of the course but they link to the original template course.
Even worse, when changing the preliminary url to a more catchy one, all of the links would no longer be valid.
Is there a way to fix this? I.e. is there a way to add links within a course which are not dependent on the url?