Can I Upload Files on Moodle Using Google Drive

1. Introduction

What is the file picker?

The File Picker enables files to be selected and displayed in Moodle - for example, when an editing teacher clicksAdd an activity or resource > File, or when a forum participant adds an attachment to a post.File Picker is used to upload files to your class.

File Picker can also be used to link to files in an external repository, if it has been enabled by your ambassador, such as Dropbox, Youtube, Wikimedia, Google drive.

Usually the file is copied into Moodle from wherever you lot have chosen it (due east.grand. a repository or your reckoner), though for certain repositories, such as the YouTube videos repository, a link is created, and in some situations an alias/shortcut may be created.

two. Example

In this example the File Picker was used to add the image below.

This epitome was added from a file on my computer and File Picker allows me cull the file and uploaded it to the Moodle site.

3. Teaching

You tin can upload files to your form from your computer or network. Alternatively you can employ a file that you have stored in the cloud east.g. Dropbox.

In the next four sub-chapters you will

1. See how to upload a file from your computer or network - using drag-and-drib
2. See how to upload a file from your computer or network - using File Chooser
3. Use files in the My Files expanse on Moodle
4. Run across how to upload a file from a repository (in this instance Dropbox).

Y'all practice not need to worry about deleting files. Moodle will delete unused files after 4 days.

3.one. Uploading Files - Elevate and Drop

Let'south say nosotros desire to add a pdf file to our grade. In this instance I'thousand going to add it to my Meteo Bookie book. I have turned on editing and tin add an activeness or resources to my Book.

Clicking onAdd an activity or resource opens a popup window. Choose File and click Add.

Now simply drag the file from your figurer File Explorer/Finder to the Drib files here to upload box on your Moodle page.

In one case uploaded the file appears in the Files box.

Click Save and return to class or Save and brandish to run into the file in your class

Save and return to course returns you to the page where you added your resource. You are still in editing fashion.

Save and display  takes y'all to a page which allows y'all to update or view the file.

3.2. Uploading Files - File chooser

An alternative method of using files in a Moodle course would, for instance be to add a movie to a spider web page you have created. In this instance Moodle will ask you to choose a file in the File Chooser.

Allow's see how we add this prototype to a page:

Click on the Insert/edit image button from the push button bar:

 The Insert/edit prototype  dialog box  will open:

Click on the Find or upload an image...push button. This will open up the File picker assuasive yous to apply the Choose file push button to pick the file you lot wish to apply. In the epitome below we can see the file picker on the correct and the dialogue box that opens to let you to choose the file from your computer you want to upload.

Cull the file you want and click the upload button to  upload the file to your Moodle course.

iii.three. My Individual Files

In Moodle, each user has a individual files area for uploading and managing a set of files.

The individual files surface area is attainable viaNavigation > My home > My profile > My private files or theMy private files block. If the individual files repository is enabled by a site admin, information technology is bachelor as a source within the file picker when selecting files to use in a course.

To add a file to your individual files area

1. On the Navigation menu, click My profile > My private files
2. The file manager volition appear.
3. If desired, create a folder for your file(s)
4. Click on the Add button to upload from the File picker or drag and drib from your desktop. It will look similar the files are already at that place, but they aren't until you practise the next step!
5. Click the 'Salvage changes' push

• Once uploaded, files volition announced as thumbnails. Clicking the icons superlative correct will display them in tabular array or list view as an alternative.

Making an alias/shortcut to a file in the individual files area

If a file is uploaded into your private files area, it is possible when using information technology elsewhere on Moodle to select it as an allonym/shortcut. This means that if you update the file in your private files area, information technology will automatically update elsewhere on Moodle.

three.four. Providing resources via an external repository

If this option has been enabled past your administrator it is possible for users to use external repositories to copy or create a shortcut or alias to their files in repositories such every bit Dropbox, Google Drive or Microsoft's OneDrive. For a full list of all the repositories that tin can be used with Moodle seeManaging repositories in Moodle docs.

The Moodle site administrator has to install some plug-ins and fiddle with some other stuff. Instructions on how to do this for the more mutual repositories can exist found here:

• For Dropbox
• For Google Drive
• For Microsoft One Drive

4. Do

Now go to your practice site and upload a document file and an image to the site.

If you lot need aid using Moodle Demo please cheque out this link.

Recall that once a file has been uploaded to your Moodle site you may use it in more that i location without having to upload the file a 2d time,

My file, Blanck.PDF, uploaded:

How I did it:

1. 1. Logged into demo site as a teacher
   2. Cull My 2nd course
   3. Turned editing on
   4. In the second topic from the top I clickedAdd an activity or resources
   5. From the pop-up carte I cull File and clicked Add at the bottom of the dialog box.
   6. In the page that opened I filled in the name of the document (and a description).
   7. Opened Windows Explorer to display the file and dragged it to the box at the lesser of the windows
   8. Clicked Salvage and render to course the file appears on the site!

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