Manage Files | How to create a folder in Manage Files tool
Manage Files is a tool that stores all the files you upload to your Brightspace course page. Creating folders with the same names as you have modules in Content will help to maintain the Manage Files storage ordered and will help prevent course files (that are in use in the Content) to be accidentally misplaced.
This article shows how to:
For easy course content management create folders in Manage Files with the same name as your modules have in Content. Then, set up a Default Path for a Content module to link them.
How to create a folder in Manage Files tool
Navigate to your course, in the green navigation bar
- Click on Course Tools, a drop-down menu will appear
- Select Manage files
This will take you to a the page of the Manage Files tool.
To create a folder in Manage Files
- Click New Folder
After clicking this option a new folder appear to which you will need to give a name.
- Name the [New Folder] as your module in the Content view
- Click Save
Your folder will now appear in the list in the left panel (called the Folder Tree) and in the main Folder content view.
This action will not create a module in the Content view. You will still have to create the module. For instructions, please visit Create (sub-)modules
How to create a subfolder in Manage Files tool
You can also create a subfolder in Manage Files tool.
In the Manage Files tool page
- Click [folder name] in the left panel where you want to create a subfolder
The folder name will be highlighted in blue and its contents will appear in the main view on the right.
- Click New Folder
Continue as when creating a folder
- Name the [new folder]
- Click Save
The new subfolder appears in the list below the folder you located it.
Now you know how to create a folder and a subfolder in the Manage Files tool in Brightspace!
Related topics
Want to know more about Manage Files in Brightspace?
Please visit:
0 Comments
Add your comment