Personal folders
Folder in the personal menu
Every OpenOlat user has a folder icon in the personal menu. In this folder you can find 2 subfolders, the folders private and public.
Private
Every user can upload every supported file here. This folder can be used as temporary storage and to get access to files from different servers. Here OpenOlat works linke a cloud.
Additionally that data, which is downloaded in the data archiving is saved here as well.
Public
Files which should be available for other OpenOlat users can be stored in this folder. The public folder is visible in the user's visiting card. In the personal tools in Other users you can search for the user who uploaded a file for you. This simplifies the data exchange between OpenOlat users.
General Information about folders
Folders can be used to store documents, to make files available for downloads or to provide an exchange platform for various users. If you have read and write access, which have to be assigned to users in courses and groups by a coach first, you are generally allowed to upload files, create, copy, move or delete them in folders.
File names of files you wish to upload to OpenOlat should contain only the following:
a-z, A-Z, 0-9, as well as "-", ".", "_" or space
Additionally you can zip or unzip files. All these actions can be performed with single files and folders or with several ones at once. If you want to upload many files at once there are two options at your disposal.
On one side you can zip your files on your computer, upload the zip-file and unzip it in the OpenOlat folder. On the other side several files can be transferred and organized by WebDAV. All folders are WebDAV compatible. This means OpenOlat is available as a normal net-device, with which you can easily copy, move and delete files. Further information can be found in the chapter "Using WebDAV".
In order for the WebDAV access to work, it needs to be activated by your OpenOlat administrator first.
Quota
For each course element "Folder" you can dispose of ca. 100 MB storage space. Your OpenOlat support is responsible for the increase of the quota. Please contact the corresponding contact person.
Other types of folders
In OpenOlat exist several different versions of folders. Beside the two folders in the personal menu in OpenOlat exist the following folder versions:
- Storage folder (in courses)
- Course element folder (in courses)
- Folders in Topic assignment (in courses)
- Participant folder (in courses)
- Resource folder (learning resource)