Talk:File handling

Update to Moodle 2.0

OK, files are different in M2. If this page is the jump off to file handling, we need references and screen shots of the file picker and some help for people who are used to earlier versions.

Course files starts to help those used to previous version. However, we learn that course files in M2 is the exception, not the rule.:) Perhaps some new pages are necessary for the subject of files in pre and post Moodle 2.0. --Chris collman 01:14, 5 December 2010 (UTC)

First things first

Chris, I am afraid we need more than this. What little information is here is written by experts and that is a mistake. The file picker is confusing of itself, but the basic file handling is just not addressed at all. How do links to a repository work? How can I upload a zip file and unzip it and access those files when I have a course in 1.9.x that contains 365 images without having to recreate every link to every image. People build courses over time and transitioning to M2 is going to take up far more time than they have - just to learn how file handling works. Perhaps we need to start in how we can access the files area, to create a repository, all in simple language. What is here and in the File System Repository page makes it clear that only an Admin has access to that, and if that is the case, then why are people complaining about the pain when they have shot themselves in the foot?--Colin Fraser 23:20, 26 December 2010 (UTC)

The first things first as you stated and I will restate. We need to personally feel comfortable with being a teacher and uploading "private files" for use in any of our courses. Then uploading files that my co teachers of a course can access. Then uploading and accessing files that are available for the site or courses that I am not a teacher but want to use. And of course being a student and uploading a file for a course and perhaps one I can use in more than one course. Just updated my profile at Moodle.org and it occurs to me it is a M2 site. Well I got to put on my snow gear, shovel some more snow and think about this new system--Chris collman 13:18, 29 December 2010 (UTC)