Makes student assignment links clickable in Blackboard

url-maker-for-blackboard.user.js

// ==UserScript==
// @name         URL Maker for Blackboard
// @namespace    https://lms.uconn.edu/webapps/assignment/
// @version      0.2
// @description  Makes links clickable
// @author       Brian Daley <[email protected]>
// @match        https://lms.uconn.edu/webapps/assignment/*
// @grant        none
// @downloadUrl  https://gist.github.com/bdaley/b0c1a3c36111b4e620c71981ebb83b7b/raw/url-maker-for-blackboard.user.js
// @updateUrl  https://gist.github.com/bdaley/b0c1a3c36111b4e620c71981ebb83b7b/raw/url-maker-for-blackboard.user.js
// ==/UserScript==

(function() {
    'use strict';

    // Regular expression for finding URLs
    let re = /\b(https?|ftp|file):\/\/[\-A-Za-z0-9+&@#\/%?=~_|!:,.;]*[\-A-Za-z0-9+&@#\/%=~_|]/ig;

    // These are the selectors in Blackboard/HuskyCT that might contain links
    let selectors = "#submissionTextView .vtbegenerated p, #currentAttempt_studentComments .vtbegenerated";

    // Convert text links to <a> elements
    document.querySelectorAll(selectors).forEach((el) => {
        el.innerHTML = el.innerHTML.trim().replace(re, function(url){
            return `<a href="${url}">${url}</a>`;
        });
    });
})();