Can you embed a website in NCE?

Yildiz.N.829

Hello,

Many faculty on campus are switching over to New Content Experience to improve navigation, but are facing roadblocks such as embedding websites. As shown in the attached images, it is recommended to have the link open in a new tab, but the embed option is still there. However, when embed is selected, faculty get an error message (see image). With assignments and discussions being updated as inline activities in NCE, it doesn't make sense to have certain features like surveys or links not show up inline.

Can anyone tell me if there's a solution for this issue? Thanks!

Brett.D.814

There are multiple potential reasons why a site won't embed in another, and these are generally due to the security configuration of the site that you're attempting to embed.

1. The site isn't using HTTPS for encrypted connections
   1. You can easily check this by looking at the URL you're using
2. The site is using the X-Frame-Options response header to block page rendering
   1. https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/HTTP/Headers/X-Frame-Options
3. The website uses a CSP policy that prevents embedding
   1. https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/HTTP/Headers/Content-Security-Policy/frame-src

Security configurations of site headers can be highly customized, and therefore you may be able to work with the site admins to have them essentially whitelist your domain in order to allow embedding, but that will be up to them. If it is indeed security settings on their end (which is rather likely), then you're at their mercy.