Navigation Bar

What is the NavBar Tool?

The navbar contains links to course-specific and CourseLink-wide tools and resources. Each course has its own navbar that links to relevant tools for that course. You can create custom links and link groups if you want; including URL links to third-party tools, external websites and other areas of CourseLink.

The NavBar always stays on visible to users while they navigate your course site, and sits between the CourseLink-wide tools in the MiniBar and the content the user is currently using.

Accessing the NavBar Tool

The NavBar tool always stays visible in your course site. Hovering over the NavBar will bring the NavBar action menu up on the NavBar.

Location of the customize this navbar link on a face-to-face course site

From the NavBar action menu, select ‘Customize This NavBar’ to make changes to a default NavBar.

Location of the customize this navbar link on a DE course site

Custom Link Groups

Custom link groups are a set of individual links that grouped together. They can be created with link group names to categorize relationships between similar features of each group.

1. To create custom link group, navigate the NavBar and select Manage All Course Navbars.

Red box around the Manage all Courses Navbars option

2. From the tool Navigation click Custom Links > Create Link Group.

Create Link Group in a red box and to the right of Create Link button

3. Enter a name, icon and description for the link group.

4. In the Links area you have the option to do either of the following

Select Add Existing Link to add an existing link to the group. Click Add.
Select Create Link to add a new link to the group. Enter the link and click Create.

5. Click Save.