ARCHIVED: Oncourse Resources: Working with folders
Folders are a useful way to organize your Resources area and make it easier for site participants to find the items they need.
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Creating new folders
By default, your Resources area has one folder in it, named after your site. To add a subfolder:
- Next to the existing folder, from the menu, choose .
- Next to "Folder Name", enter a title for your folder.
Note: Avoid using unsupported characters in folder titles; see ARCHIVED: Unsupported characters.
- To add a description and control who can access the contents of
the folder, click
- Enter an optional description in the text areas provided.
- Under "Availability and Access", control who can access the
contents of the folder and when it's available, as follows:
- To display the folder to site members only, select . (This option is not available if the folder to which you're adding is publicly viewable.)
- To share the folder with another site to which you belong (e.g., as an attachment to a Syllabus item for another course or project you're leading), select . (This option is not available if the folder to which you're adding is publicly viewable.)
- To display the folder only to selected groups, select ARCHIVED: Managing groups. , and then select the group(s) that should have access. For more on groups, see
- To show or hide your folder, or set a beginning and/or ending date for its visibility, click the appropriate selections. (This option does not appear when you're adding an item to Resources in My Workspace.) Site administrators will always be able to see hidden items, even when they are hidden from other users.
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To add detailed descriptors, click
. You can then add information to the following fields:- Alternate Title
- Creator
- Publisher
- Subject and Keywords
- Date Created
- Date Issued
- Abstract
- Contributor
- Audience
- Audience Education Level
. This allows you
to do the following:
- To create another folder, click
Note: To remove a folder from the list of folders to add, click the red
next to it. .
- When you are finished, click .
Editing a folder
To edit the name, description, availability, access settings, or optional properties for a folder, from the
menu, choose . Make your changes, and then click to save them.Reordering folder contents
To reorder the contents of a folder, see ARCHIVED: Reordering items in Resources.
Expanding and compressing ZIP files
To extract the contents of a .zip
file that you have
uploaded, from the menu next to your
.zip
file's name, click . A
folder with the same name and contents as the .zip
file
will be added to the site.
Note: If a folder with the same name as the
.zip
file already exists, you will either need to delete
it or rename and re-upload the .zip
file.
To create a .zip
file containing the contents of a
folder, from the menu next to your folder's name, click
. A .zip
file will be
added to the site.
Note: The permissions of the .zip
file
will apply to all items and folders within it. If some of those items
or folders were originally hidden, you'll need to hide the
.zip
file in order to restrict access to those items.
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Last modified on 2018-01-18 15:48:48.