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How to Place a Link to a Flash Movie in a WebTycho Classroom

Deborah Schroeder

Senior Instructional Support Specialist

Center for Support of Instruction

Published: January-February 2011

Category: » Tech-skills-software » Video

This tutorial demonstrates how to place a Flash movie in a WebTycho classroom by creating a link to the movie's .swf file. You can also place a Flash movie in the classroom by embedding it, which is a more advanced technique.

1. Navigate to your WebTycho classroom.

2. Click the Faculty Center link on the left menu.

3. Select Manage next to Course Content.

4. Select Edit next to place holder for files.

5. Scroll down the page and click the Add Attachments button.

6.  From the Attachments window:

• Click the Browse button and navigate to the Flash (.swf) file on you computer.
  
• Click the Attach File button
• Click the Continue button.  

 7.  Once the Flash file (.swf) file has been attached, click the Submit button at the bottom of the WebTycho window.

8. From the Manage Course Content screen, click the Create Text button.

9.  In the Link Text field, enter the name of the content item.  

10. Add some text to the text box. (NOTE: You will need to make sure your Text Formatting Editor is turned on.)

11. Highlight the text that you want to link the .swf file to, and then click the Link button in the toolbar.

12. From the Insert Hyperlink dialog box, select Web Links, select your .swf file from the list, and then click the OK button.

13. Once the link has been created, the text should turn blue with an underline. Click the Submit button to save the content item.

14. Open the newly created content item and test the link to make sure the Flash movie plays correctly.

Acknowledgements

Much thanks to Towanda Jones for her content contribution to this tutorial.