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	Adding VHL WebLinks to Your Course Downloading VHL WebLinks to Your Computer 1. Download and save VHL WebLinks to your computer’s hard drive. 2. In order to edit these documents, you must decompress the file using a Zip utility* and open its component files using MS Word. The VHL WebLinks documents are in HTML format allowing you the flexibility to add, delete, or edit as much of the document as you want. For example, if you do not want to use the *Lectura* section in *Lección 1, you can delete the links to those activities. Or, if you want to add text or instructions, you may type these within the document. For example: “After you read and study the grammar on pages 40-41, click on Workbook* and complete exercises 1-c and 1-d.” 3. After editing, save the documents, maintaining the HTML format. Recompress the WebLinks folder using your Zip utility* and creating a new ZIP archive. Use this new ZIP archive throughout the following instructions. for example WinZip, available for Windows from http://www.winzip.com, or StuffIt* available for the Macintosh from http://www.stuffit.com. Please refer to their documentation for instructions on their use. Uploading VHL WebLinks to Your WebCT Course A. Upload the WebLinks ZIP archive to your WebCT course On your WebCT Homepage, click on the “Control Panel” button at the top left of the page. Then, click on the “Manage Files” button. In the “Actions” menu to the right of the page, click on “Upload” under the “Options: Files” heading. Click the “Browse” button. Using this “File Upload” dialog window, navigate to the folder containing your copy of the WebLinks ZIP archive. Click on the ZIP archive and “Open”. Click “Upload” to upload the ZIP archive you chose. B. Unzip the archive In the “Manage Files” page, find the WebLinks ZIP archive listed. Click on the checkbox to the left of the archive name to select it. In the “Actions” menu to the right of the page, click on “Unzip”. Choose a location for the uncompressed files and click the “Unzip” button. C. Add WebLinks to your Course Menu Return to your WebCT Homepage. In the “Actions” menu, click the “Add page or tool” button under the “Options: Links” heading. Click on “Single Page” under the “Pages” heading. Fill in the form to describe the link. Under “Enter a title for this item” type: “WebLinks”. Click the “Browse” button. Click on the WebLinks folder created when you unzipped the ZIP Archive. Find “index.html” in the WebLinks folder. Mark the radiobox to the left of its title and click on “Add selected” button. Click on the box to the left of “On the Course Menu...” to have the link appear in the Course Menu. You may also add this link to an Organizer Page at this time. Click the “Add” button to complete the process. Adding the CD-ROM Feature to Your WebCT Course One feature of the WebLinks package is the inclusion of video directly in the WebLinks pages. To give students the fastest access to these large files, you will want to make use of the Video & Interactive CD-ROMs packaged free-of-charge with every new student textbook purchased. The following steps enable the WebCT feature required to bridge these two technologies. In your WebCT Homepage, click on “Add page or tool” under the “Options: Links” heading. Click on CD-ROM under the “Content Utilities” heading. Fill in the form to describe this feature. Under “Enter a title for this item:” type: “Select your CD-ROM drive”. Click on the checkbox next to the Organizer Page option. Click the “Add” button. You are returned to the Homepage. Click on the new CD-ROM item. Click on the “Create entry to CD-ROM” button under the “Options” heading. Fill in the form to identify the CD-ROM required by the students. Under “CD-ROM title” type the CD-ROM title. Click the Add button to complete the process.