ARCHIVED: Oncourse Resources: Working with files
On this page:
- Uploading new files
- Editing a file's details
- Updating a file's contents
- Expanding and compressing ZIP files
Uploading new files
Note: The following instructions are for uploading new files to the Resources tool. To replace an existing file with a new version, see Updating a file's contents below.
To upload files to Resources:
- In your site's menubar, click .
- Next to the folder to which you want to add a file, from the menu, click .
- Click
Note: Filenames that include certain characters cannot be accepted. For a list of unsupported characters, see ARCHIVED: Unsupported characters.
to find the appropriate file on your
computer or network, and then click .
- Next to "Display Name", type the name you want displayed in
Resources. If you don't add a display name, the filename will be used.
Note: When you use WebDAV to access your item, you'll see only the filename, not the display name.
- To add a description or any other details, such as who can access
the file or when it should be visible, click
- Type a description of your resource in the text box provided.
-
Choose your resource's copyright status, add copyright information, and display a copyright alert:
- If you select , a text box will appear in which you can add information about the copyright.
- For information about copyright and fair use, click .
- If you would like to display the terms to users when they access your resource, select . This option will require users to agree to the copyright terms to view the resource. To see the alert, click You cannot edit this alert.
- Under "Availability and Access", control who can access the file
and when it's available, as follows:
- To display the resource to site members only, select . (This option is not available if the folder to which you're adding the resource is publicly viewable.)
- To share the resource 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 the resource is publicly viewable.)
- To display the resource only to selected groups, select ARCHIVED: Managing groups.) , and then select the group(s) that should have access. (This option does not appear if you don't have any groups in your site; for more, see
- To show or hide your resource, 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
, which will allow you to do the following:
- To upload more than one file, click
You can add any number of files at once, as long as the total file size does not exceed the limit set by the system administrator.
The quota for a course, project, or portfolio site, or for My Workspace, is 4 GB. To check your site quota and usage, in the Resources tool, click
.Note: To remove a file from the list of files to add, click the red
next to it. .
- Next to "Email Notification", specify whether or not you want to have members of the site notified automatically via email when the resource is posted. (This option does not appear when you're adding an item to Resources in My Workspace.)
- Click to finish.
Note: You can also use WebDAV to efficiently upload files from your computer to your Resources area. See:
- ARCHIVED: Using Windows, how do I use WebDAV to download files from my Oncourse Resources or Drop Box?
- ARCHIVED: Using WebDAV with AnyClient to download files from Resources or Drop Box
- ARCHIVED: Using Mac OS X, how do I use WebDAV to download files from my Oncourse Resources or Drop Box?
Editing a file's details
To edit the name, description, availability, access settings, or optional properties for a file, from the
menu next to your file's name, click . Make your changes, and then click to save them.Updating a file's contents
Whenever you open a file from Resources, such as a Word document, your computer creates a temporary copy and displays it, while the original file stays on the server. If you make any changes to the temporary copy, they are not saved automatically to the original. If you want to change the contents of the original, you will need to open it, make and save your changes, and then replace the original version with your updated version.
To replace a Resources file with an updated version from your computer, from the
menu next to your file's name, click . Click to select the updated file from your computer, and then click .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 15:44:02.