Summary
Although most students have found ways to share documents among their fellow group members when working on group projects, Brightspace provides the Locker as a space within Brightspace where the students can store small files and share them with their group members. For the locker to be available to a group, it must be enabled by the instructor during the process of creating groups. These instructions are for instructors.
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Although most students have found ways to share documents among their fellow group members when working on group projects, Brightspace provides the Locker as a space within Brightspace where the students can store small files and share them with their group members. For the locker to be available to a group, it must be enabled by the instructor during the process of creating groups. These instructions are for instructors:
- Click Course Tools in the course Navbar and select Groups.
- Click New Category.
- Fill in the fields as you normally would when creating groups, then scroll down to Additional Options near the bottom. Under Create Workspace, check the box for Set up lockers.
- Click Save to complete creating the group category and to set up a locker for each group. Students will be able to access the groups locker through the Groups tool by selecting the locker under the Locker column.
Some features of Brightspace’s Locker:
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Storage size limits
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50,000 KB (48.83 MB) – per Group
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Supported image formats
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PNG, JPG/JPEG, BMP, GIF, TIF, TIFF, etc.
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Supported text formats
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TXT, DOCX, PPT, RTF, XLSX, XML, PDF, HTML, etc.
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Supported media types
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MP3, MP4, MPEG, AVI, WAV, etc.
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Upload Files button
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This allows students to upload files to the locker
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New File button
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This allows students to create HTML files in the locker
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New Folder button
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This allows students to create folders in the locker
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Email Group Members button
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This allows members to email each other (only available in locker group)
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