In the Content menu of your course you can add course material like links. A link allows you to easily guide a student to information from an external source.
![Edit Activity - Teacher Instruction (EN) - Werk - Microsoft Edge](https://media.screensteps.com/image_assets/assets/006/689/910/original/b433ab92-ffa5-4992-9619-98b193693033.png)
You can add link using the icon Add QuickLink, everywhere you see the menu bar above.
This menubar is visible with: HTML-documents, Tests, Discussions, Assignments, Module pages, etc.
![Edit Activity - Teacher Instruction (EN) - Werk - Microsoft Edge](https://media.screensteps.com/image_assets/assets/006/689/912/original/afe94f01-1955-48c3-bf57-787695340f38.png)
- Choose one of the internal sources where you can place a link.
- If you want to add a link to an external source, you need to use URL.
![Edit Activity - Teacher Instruction (EN) - Werk - Microsoft Edge](https://media.screensteps.com/image_assets/assets/006/689/914/original/9e98f3d7-e3ff-43f9-9cd0-aa101a849e48.png)
- Enter the URL you need
- Select how to open it
- Click Insert
- Always check Open as External Resource if the url starts with https://. If this is the case, then you should check New window. Otherwise, a blank page is displayed in Brightspace.