Course: Tips for Online Instructors

Page Elements, Editors, and Timings

Insert and Update File List
Insert and Update File List
A File List is a page element that gives students the option to open or save one or more files you have uploaded. Your syllabus, unit instructions, and assignment directions are examples of files you might have students access. This section explains how to add your Syllabus as a file on the accordion menu of your Course Home page. This method of listing files for students to download can also be used on unit pages and in Learning Modules.

On the Course Home page, click the Text/Media Editor tab, and scroll down the accordion menus to the Syllabus section. If you don't yet have a Syllabus document for students to download, click the + sign within the Syllabus folder and select Insert File List.

When you select Insert File List, the dialogue box allows you to title the item, and then browse to the file you would like to upload. The IGEN Career Pathways NTER courses have used the title area to include a directive to students: Click on the item below to download and read the syllabus. You can enter a similar message in the title.

Click the Choose File button to locate the file and open it. When you click Save, the item is added in a framed area within the Syllabus accordion folder.

If you have a Syllabus document that needs to be updated, click in the File List element and select Delete. Follow the steps above to Insert File List.

More than one file can be included in a File List. To add more files to the list, click the Edit Files tab when you select to Edit Properties for the File List element.  Click the Add File button at the bottom of this tab and locate the file you want to upload. You can reposition the list of files by editing the number sequence.