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You can choose the color for text, links, visited links, and background
for the Welcome Page. Note:
You can either choose
from predefined color schemes or create a custom
color scheme. Note: Depending
on administrator settings, the high contrast
color scheme may be the default and you will not be able to change
page colors.
What do you want to do?
Choosing a predefined color
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You can choose one of the predefined color schemes for
the Welcome Page. Note:
Depending on administrator settings, this feature may not be available.
The high contrast color scheme may be the
default.
- From the Control
Panel, click Course
Settings. The Course
Settings screen appears.
- Under Create/Edit Welcome Page, click
Edit welcome page. The Create/Edit
Welcome Page screen appears.
- Under Customize,
click Customize
page colors. The Customize
Page Colors screen appears.
- In the Color
Set column, choose one of the
predefined color schemes by selecting the radio button for the appropriate
set.
- Click Update.
The chosen color scheme is applied.
- To preview your changes, click Preview welcome
page.
Choosing the high
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In compliance with the US Rehabilitation Act,
Section 508, WebCT offers a color scheme that provides high contrast between
background and foreground elements. This high contrast color scheme allows
users who have difficulty distinguishing colors to use WebCT. Note:
Depending on administrator settings, the high contrast
scheme may be the default.
- From the Control
Panel, click Course
Settings. The Course
Settings screen appears.
- Under Create/Edit
Welcome Page, click Edit welcome page.
The Create/Edit Welcome Page screen appears.
- Under Customize, click Customize
page colors. The
Customize Page Colors screen appears.
- In the Color
Set column, select High
contrast.
- Click Update. The high contrast color
scheme is applied.
- To preview your changes, click Preview welcome
page.
Creating a custom color scheme
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You can create a custom color scheme for the
Welcome Page by selecting
the colors for text, links, visited links, and background. Note:
Depending on administrator settings, this feature
may not be available. The high contrast color
scheme may be the default.
- From the Control
Panel, click Course
Settings. The Course
Settings screen appears.
- Under Create/Edit
Welcome Page, click Edit welcome page.
The Create/Edit Welcome Page screen appears.
- Under Customize, click Customize
page colors. The
Customize Page Colors screen appears.
- In the Color Set column, select Custom.
- In the Color Preview column,
click one of the following:
- Set text color
- Set link color
- Set visited link color
- Set background color
A color palette appears.
- To preview a color, click one of the
colored squares. The color appears in the frame to the right
of the color palette. Tip: In the Color
Value text box, you can also type an HTML hexadecimal color code
and click Preview.
- Choose a color:
- To choose the selected color, click Update.
The Customize Page Colors screen appears.
- To apply the color chosen by your administrator, click Server
default. The Customize Page Colors
screen appears.
- Repeat steps 5 through 7 to select a custom color for another screen
element.
- Click Update.
The custom color scheme is applied.
- To preview your changes, click Preview welcome
page.
Choosing the course default
color scheme | Top
You can also choose the color scheme as specified in Course
Settings.
- From the Control
Panel, click Course
Settings. The Course
Settings screen appears.
- Under Create/Edit Welcome Page, click
Edit welcome page. The Create/Edit
Welcome Page screen appears.
- Under Customize, click Customize
page colors. The Customize Page Colors
screen appears.
- Click Course default. The color scheme
that is specified in Course Settings is
applied.
- To preview your changes, click Preview welcome
page.
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