1.3 Navigating your way through T3

5. Opening URLs

Throughout the T3 course, there will be URLS to websites that we will want you to visit. 

There are several options to be aware of and to teach your students about when they are navigating a website. 

Most urls will open in a new tab. What does that mean? When you click on a url your main window will remain open. The url you clicked on will open in a new tab. When visiting the new site; if you hit the back button, you will not go back to your main window. You will navigate between the open tabs to go between your open websites. See below for an illustration of three open tabs.

When students begin taking their online assessments, it is important that they know about these two different ways to open up urls. They need to be prepared to know that clicking on a url may mean it opens up in a new tab or it may open in the same window. 

Just a FYI that it is possible to force a new tab to open in an uncontrolled environment (the commercial testing environments are locked down and controlled). If you are on a Windows computer, you can open any link in a new tab by holding down the control key (ctrl) and clicking on the link. To do this on a Mac, instead hold down the command key when clicking on a link.”