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Obtaining an iTunes U URL

Each page, each group within each page, and each track within each group in your iTunes U site has a unique URL, making it easy for you to create links from your iTunes U Links box, scripts, webpages, or Learning Management Systems (LMS) to the requested iTunes U page, group, or track.

To obtain the URL for a specific iTunes U page, group, or track:

1. Open a plain text file.

2. Navigate to the specific iTunes U page, group, or track you want.

3. Do one of the following:

   • For a page, drag the page title link into your open text file.

   • For a group, Control-click the tab for the group (or right-click for Windows), choose Copy Link from the shortcut menu, and paste the URL into your open text file or drag the group title link into your open text file.

   • For a track, Control-click the track (or right-click for Windows), choose Copy Link from the shortcut menu, and paste the URL into your open text file.

This is the URL you use to generate a link from your iTunes U Links box, script, webpage, or LMS to the selected page, group, or track within iTunes U.

Notes:

• You can drag any segment from a page path or any link in iTunes U to your desktop to create a quicklink to that page, group, or link.

• To obtain a public URL for your site, drag the element of the page path containing your institution’s name into your open text file.

• For a group URL, The last portion of the URL is the iTunes U destination information for the group. If you copy this destination information, or handle, to use as a direct link to the group, be sure to first delete the leading zero in the handle. For a track URL, The last portion of the URL, excluding everything from the question mark to then of the URL, is the iTunes U destination information, or handle, for the track.

• Links created as described above use an https:// or http:// URL protocol. If you paste these URLs directly into a link you created in your iTunes U Links box, when a user clicks the link, the user is first redirected to a web browser and then taken to the page, group, or track defined in the link. To avoid a trip through the web browser, use an iTunes link by changing the https:// or http:// in the URL to itmss://. When you installed iTunes on your system, it added itself as a URL scheme handler for itmss:// URLs. Because you can’t be sure your users have iTunes installed, you should not use itmss:// in Web pages or emails.