When developing a series of continuing education quizzes I needed to take learners to specific sections within guidelines to allow them to dig deeper into topical areas and as remediation. Some of the challenges with this project Were: 1) learners needed to view the official guidelines; 2)  guidelines are updated on a regular basis and posted online as PDFs; 3) the education committee wanted the learner to be taken directly to the narrative, chart, table or graphic associated with the question answer or distractor.

There are a number of wonderful tutorials available on the internet for answer level feedback so I will not address the process here. The following instructions step through how to prepare pdf documents and then add destination links to questions  and/or external link areas on other slides.

Annotating PDFs

There is no way to specify a URL to a bookmark within a PDF. Such as, destinations will have to be created within the documents for each area identified in item 2 above. The destinations will take learners directly to information associated with guideline questions. The following instructions step through the process of creating anchors inside a PDF from a link by using what is called “Named Destinations”.

1. Open the PDF in Adobe Acrobat professional 8-11 or DC.
2. Go to View >> Navigation Tabs >> Destinations (Adobe Acrobat 8, 9, or 10), or View >>Show/Hide >> Navigation Panes >> Destination (Adobe Acrobat 11 or DC)
3. Manually navigate through the PDF for the first desired passage, and then go to Tools >> Edit Text & Images.
4. Click to the left of the first passage, and then click on the Destinations icon. An untitled link will be created.

   

5. Double-click on the untitled link in the Destinations list and name the area. (It is suggested that short simple names be used)
6. Document destination name..
7. Repeat steps 1-6 until all feedback areas have been identified.
8. Save and then close the PDF document.

Save the document to the project folder.

Adding Destination Links to Slides

Links to specific topical areas within PDFs can be accomplished in two ways:

• Accessing a PDF by a specific page number by using: http://www.domain.com/file.pdf#page=3

• Accessing a PDF by a destination identifier by using: http://www.domain.com/fileName.pdf#nameddest=destinationID

To add destination of page links to slides:

1. Select the text that will receive the destination or page link.
   
2. Click on the link icon in the Properties window. The Link To popup window will be displayed.
   
3. Assure that Web Page is selected in the type field.
4. Paste the URL with the destination identifier associated with the question in the Location field.
   
5. Click on the drop-down arrow to the right of the Location field and select New. This selection will open the PDF in a new browser window.
6. Click the [OK] button to save the entries.
7. Repeat steps 1-6 for each link area in project.