Uploading Files and Documents
You can provide other users with learning and working materials in any format (e.g. DOC, PDF, MP3, JPEG, etc.). Files are suitable for storing large amounts of background information that participants can then download directly. This can be checklists, legal texts, case studies, etc.
Uploading Files
You can post new files anywhere in the listings as long as you have the Add New File permission.
- Navigate to the desired place in the offers of StudOn.
- Click on the button Add New Object and select the entry File.
- StudOn opens a new page.
- Select the desired ZIP file(s). You have two options:
- Use the mouse to drag one or more ZIP files from your computer into the framed field.
- Click on the Select Files button. StudOn displays the file directory of your computer. Select one or more ZIP files and click Open.
- StudOn displays all selected files in the Selected Files list. If you activate the Show all details link, you have the option to unzip the ZIP files.
- Activate the Unzip checkbox to create a separate file object in StudOn for each file contained in the ZIP archive. This allows users to download the files individually. Otherwise, users can download the Zip archive as a whole.
- Activate the checkbox Apply folder structure of the archive to additionally create the folder structure (subfolders etc.) contained in the ZIP archive in StudOn as areas and folders. In this case, the file name of the ZIP archive is used as name for the topmost section or the first folder.
- Additionally, you can change the title of the ZIP file and add a description.
- Click the Upload Files button.
- StudOn uploads the files or the ZIP files and returns to the previous position in the offers.
Use of Zip FIles
StudOn offers various use cases for working with ZIP files:
- The fast exchange of multiple files: You upload a ZIP file, which other users download again compressed. Only then is the file unpacked on the computer of the downloading user. This is faster and more convenient than downloading files individually.
- Make many individual files available in StudOn with little effort: You upload a ZIP file which is then unpacked by StudOn. Each contained file is automatically created as a single file object and can be downloaded separately or updated as needed.
- With little effort you can provide many files and map an existing directory tree in StudOn: You upload a ZIP file, which is unpacked by StudOn. For each file a new file object is created. In addition, StudOn creates a new (sub)section or a new (sub)folder in the offers for each folder contained in the ZIP archive. This way you can map a folder structure from your PC into StudOn with just a few mouse clicks.
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