About Downloading PDF Files

For reasons I don't understand, Desire2Learn Brightspace sends an HTTP header that forces downloads of PDF files instead of displaying them in the browser.  This course has a lot of PDF files, so downloading them will soon get very old for you. 

If you use Firefox, there's an add-on that will fix you up. It makes PDFs open in the context of the browser, where you can read them, print them, or save them. It is called "InlineDisposition" and it's available here: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/inlinedisposition/

If you'd rather use Chrome, it's a little more complicated, but not really hard. See the second answer here:
http://superuser.com/questions/199382/make-chrome-always-open-pdfs-itself

I will continue to complain about this.  Maybe it'll get fixed some year.