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How to Add a Search of Inquiry Units to Your Unit (#11)

In this Tutorial you will learn how to:

• Access the “Edit this Unit” feature
• Add a Search of Inquiry Units to Your Inquiry Unit
• Submit your edited Inquiry Unit
• NOTE: If you see a word in Bold type , then you should perform that task.

Step 1

From any Inquiry web page you will be able to see the “Inquiry Units” button in the sidebar on the left-hand side of the screen.

A. Find and click on on this “Inquiry Units” button. You are now at the “Search Inquiry Units” page.

NOTE: You must be logged-in in order to edit your own Inquiry Unit. (See tutorial #2.)

B. Either click on the “Link to my Inquiry Units” link located above the search field, or type your email address into the search field and click on the “Search” button to the right. This will bring you to a list of your Inquiry Units.

C. Click on the underlined "View" button to the left of the unit you want to edit.

D. Click on the "Edit This Unit" button located at the upper middle part of the page.

Step 2

You are now at the point where you can add a search of Inquiry Units to your Unit.

A. Open a new browser window (box) on your computer screen.

• Click on “File”, which is located in the far upper left-hand corner of the browser window. A number of options will appear in a box under the word “File”.
• Hold the cursor over the option “New” until another box of options appears to the right of the word “New”.
• Click on the option “Window”. A new browser window will appear on your computer screen, identical to the other browser window.

B. At the top of the new browser window, within the page’s text, click on “Search Units”. Perform the search that you want to appear on your Inquiry Unit by typing the appropriate keywords into the “Search” box and clicking on the “Search” button to the right of the box.

• For example, suppose you want the user to see all units involving "American" and "history”. Do a search for these two keywords, then cut and paste the URL (web address) for the results into your Unit: http://www.inquiry.uiuc.edu/bin/search.cgi?command=search&search=american+history

C. In order to cut and paste the URL (web address) of the desired search results:

• Highlight the URL (web address) located in the address bar at the top of the browser window.
• Click on “Edit”, which is located to the left of “File” in the far upper left-hand corner of the browser window. A number of options will appear in a box under the word “Edit”.
• Click on “Copy”.
• Return to the original browser window, which contains the Inquiry Unit you are editing. Click the mouse on the place in the Inquiry Unit form where you want the URL (web address) to appear.
• Click on “Edit” (see above) and click on the option “Paste”. The URL (web address) should now be displayed, as a Hot Link, in your Inquiry Unit.

D. Once you have made the desired changes, click on the "Submit" button and your updated unit will be posted immediately.

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