Course Files

LMS provides an easy way for a teacher to present materials to their students. These materials may take the form of files such as word-processed documents or slideshow presentations. The materials can be displayed on the page either as individual items or bundled together inside folders. One teacher might for instance wish to share a single research document in pdf format; another might have a folder of sample past examination papers for students to download. Most types of files can be uploaded and accessed through LMS but the student needs to have the correct software to be able to open them.

To add files to a course, you must first ensure you have the editing turned on.

If you are using a modern browser, you can simply click, hold and drag and drop a file directly onto your course page. You will know if drag and drop is available to you because you will (briefly) see a message at the top of your screen:

Instead of drag and drop, you can click the link ‘Add an activity or resource’ and select either File or Folder from the activity chooser (or choose from the ‘Add a resource’ drop down menu, if this is present instead.)

The screen for uploading and displaying a file (or folder of files) includes an “add” button. Clicking on this button takes you to the File picker which is the name given to the file storage and access area within LMS. Find out more about the places you can upload or add files from in the File picker page.
There is also a block (with an arrow) into which you can drag and drop a file straight from your desktop into LMS.

Area for dragging and dropping files into

Once uploaded, files appear as thumbnails in the file manager for easy recognition.
Files view can be easily toggled between icons view or a table view with sizes and dates, or a hierarchical list view.

Clicking on the name of an uploaded file opens up a pop up dialogue box which allows file details quickly to be altered.