Oncourse CL Drop Box: Overview
What it does
The Drop Box feature allows instructors and students to share documents within a private folder for each student. The Drop Box works like Resources to allow you to upload many types of files and multiple files at a time. The Drop Box also allows nested folders (folders within folders).
Key concepts
Progress reports: Instructors can use the Drop Box tool to provide private progress reports to each student in the class.
Adding participants: When you add participants or students to a worksite, either automatically or manually, they will have Drop Box folders by default (if the Drop Box is currently enabled).
Things to consider
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The quota for a course site or project site is 1GB, and the limit for individual file uploads is 200MB unless you use WebDAV. To request a larger quota for your site, see What are the default disk quotas for UITS accounts, and how do I request an increase?
- A new Drop Box item will automatically go into the folder that you
have open when you create the item.
- For plain text documents, HTML pages, and web links that you
create in the Drop Box interface, you can edit the content, as well as
information about the item, such as its name or description. For
uploaded files, you can only edit the information about the item,
not the content; to change the content, you must upload a new version
of the file.
- Whenever you add an item to the Drop Box, you have the option of
sending an automatic email notification.
- Make sure you know the laws and policies regarding the use of copyrighted material. For information, see Posting copyrighted materials online.
Help documentation
For help documentation about the Drop Box tool, see Drop Box.
Last modified on November 17, 2009.
