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What it does

The Drop Box feature allows instructors and students to share documents within a private folder for each student. The Drop Box works like Materials to allow you to upload many types of files and many files at a time. The Drop Box also allows nested folders (folders within folders).

Key concepts

Progress reports: Instructors can use the Drop Box tool to provide private progress reports to each student in the class.

Adding participants: When you add participants or students to a worksite, either automatically or manually, they will have Drop Box folders by default (if the Drop Box tool was specified when the site was first created).

Things to consider

• A new Drop Box item will automatically go into the folder that you have open when you create the item.
• With the exception of plain text and HTML documents, the Revise option only allows you to revise the information about a Drop Box item, such as its name, description, or copyright information. You cannot revise the contents of a document or file within a Drop Box.
• Make sure you know the laws and policies regarding the use of copyrighted material.