{"id":2396,"date":"2025-04-09T15:36:19","date_gmt":"2025-04-09T14:36:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.elearning.fse.manchester.ac.uk\/getting-started-with-canvas\/?p=2396"},"modified":"2025-08-04T15:27:38","modified_gmt":"2025-08-04T14:27:38","slug":"how-to-enable-pdf-previews-within-a-page","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.elearning.fse.manchester.ac.uk\/getting-started-with-canvas\/how-to-enable-pdf-previews-within-a-page\/","title":{"rendered":"How to Enable PDF Previews Within a Page"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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  1. Introduction<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n
  2. How to Enable PDF Previews Within a Page<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

    When adding or working with PDF links in Canvas\u2014whether it’s newly uploaded content or part of migrated materials\u2014Canvas will default to showing the PDF as a simple hyperlink. You may want to allow students to view the PDF directly within the course page, to do this you can enable an inline preview.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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    How to show Previews of PDF links<\/a><\/strong><\/h2>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

    Step 1 –<\/strong> If you add PDFs within a Page in Canvas, or if your PDFs have migrated from Blackboard within a Page, they will display by default as a hyperlink:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

    \"Screenshot<\/figure>\n\n\n\n

    Step 2 –<\/strong> To host a preview of the PDF so this is displayed in the course: edit<\/strong> the page (top-left), find the PDF link in the content editor and click the link to display \u2018link options<\/strong>\u2019.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

    \"Screen<\/figure>\n\n\n\n

    Step 3 –<\/strong> This will display a sidebar for link options, select the bottom option of \u2018preview inline<\/strong>\u2019, this will then provide the option to \u2018Expand preview by Default<\/strong>\u2019, then go to the bottom of the page to Save<\/strong>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

    \"Screenshot<\/figure>\n\n\n\n

    Step 4 –<\/strong> Your PDF will now be embedded and viewable directly on the course page.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

    \"Screenshot<\/figure>\n\n\n\n

    <\/p>\n\n\n\n

    <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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