Using PDFs in Desire2Learn

By default, Desire2Learn Brightspace requires that you download PDF documents and then open them locally with something like Adobe Reader.  This course has a lot of PDFs.

If you use Firefox, there's an add-on that will make your life easier. 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

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