This presentation covers the steps for verifying WebEx Links posted in your Blackboard Learn course with not redirect students to Outlook's Webmail.

1. Posting WebEx Links in Your
Blackboard Learn Course

2. If you set up a WebEx meeting and send a copy of that link to your
email so that you can cut and paste it into your course, the link can
carry additional html code from the email when you paste the link in
your course as a hyperlink. This is especially true of copying and
pasting hyperlinks from Outlook Webmail accounts. If you do not
check this using the html editor hyperlink icon, you could inadvertently
carry over extra html code directing students back to the email address
and prompting them to log in to Webmail for instance.
The following are examples of not-problematic and problematic html
code for a WebEx link.

3. Problematic
<p><span style="color: #333333; font-family: CiscoSans,Arial; font-size: small;"
face="CiscoSans,Arial" color="#333333" size="2"><span style="font-size:
14px;"><span style="color: #333333; font-size: small;" color="#333333"
size="2"><span style="font-size: 14px;"><span style="color: #333333; font-size:
small;" color="#333333" size="2"><span style="font-size: 14px;"><a
href="https://webmail.rasmussen.edu/owa/redir.aspx?C=ifSWDzfy8kK-
OWyz0qehTVhSrW5hWtMI6fv6biGEZQIs-
7ZtEgksT98p7gEvIZfSzl4LBlStNyM.&amp;URL=https%3a%2f%2frasmussen.webex.co
m%2fjoin%2fOfficeofProfessionalDevelopment" target="_blank"><span style="color:
#0066cc; font-family: CiscoSans Light,Arial;" face="CiscoSans Light,Arial"
color="#0066CC">https://rasmussen.webex.com/join/OfficeofProfessionalDevelopm
ent</span></a></span></span></span></span></span></span></p>
Problematic code will reference webmail after
the “a herf” hyperlink prefix, and the “redir”
redirect signifier will be found after the url.

4. Not Problematic
<p><ahref="https://rasmussen.webex.com/join
/hybrid.classrooms">https://rasmussen.webex.
com/join/hybrid.classrooms</a></p>
Non-problematic code will reference
“rasmussen.webex.com” after the “a herf”
hyperlink prefix.

5. To ensure that you are not using a problematic link, use the HTML editor to
review the hyperlink code.

6. As you can see, this hyperlink pasted directly from Webmail, contains
problematic redirect code:

7. To solve this issue, highlight the hyperlink and then select the Remove Link
icon:

8. Next, highlight the WebEx URL that you want hyperlinked and select the
Insert/Edit Link icon:

9. To verify that the new hyperlink is not problematic, check the HTML code:

10. You should see your WebEx meeting URL information after the “a href=”
hyperlink prefix in the code: