Referencing News Stories

Hi Laura,

I've been in similar situations, and we made redirect links for the course. So the link in the course is a redirect link that goes to the article. If the article isn't available or you want to change it, just change where the redirect link points to. That way you don't have to re-publish the course.

Hi Lisa,

Thanks for your response! That sounds like it could work for us. Do you mind explaining that a little more in-depth? I think I understand what you're saying, but it's not something I've really done before. Is there a way to do that using Articulate or some other program/website? 

Thank you!

Whoever manages your website should be able to set up the links. You could create a table showing the actual link and then the redirect link. You'll use the redirect links in the course, and if the actual link changes, the IT person just changes the redirect to point to the new location.

I have also sometimes linked to archived versions of websites on Archive.org. The archived versions aren't always as pretty, but they are stable and they won't change.

I like Lisa's idea of using redirect links though. That's a really smart solution.

Thank you both! I'm going to look into the redirect option. Not sure who to go to for that here, as we are a large, global organization and I work out of one site. The course is a corporate-level course, though, so I'm hoping we can get support.

I will definitely check out archive.org, as well!