Are there sites you go to a lot or have your students go to a lot? Do you want your students to easily be able to go to a site without typing a long URL? Do you want to limit your students Internet use to only a few sites? Make it easy on them and on yourself by creating a desktop shortcut for each of those sites.

• Go to the Web site to which you want to create a shortcut.
• Click File > Send > Shortcut to Desktop.
• A new icon (a piece of paper with the Internet Explorer E on it) should pop up on your desktop. Note the arrow on the icon. That tells you the icon is a shortcut to a site or document.
• If you want to rename the icon, right-click the title beneath the icon and select Rename.
• You or your students now can double-click the shortcut to get to that site.

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