{"id":6465,"date":"2024-02-15T10:11:23","date_gmt":"2024-02-15T16:11:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.jccc.edu\/?p=6465"},"modified":"2025-03-26T14:03:35","modified_gmt":"2025-03-26T19:03:35","slug":"tip-hide-your-file-cabinet","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.jccc.edu\/2024\/02\/15\/tip-hide-your-file-cabinet\/","title":{"rendered":"Tip &#8211; Hide Your File Cabinet!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Are you one of\u00a0<em>those<\/em> instructors that leaves your file cabinet open for students? And then your students can&#8217;t find the right syllabus or file because the past five years worth is in there? Or even find your answer keys? Please don&#8217;t be. There are better ways to deal with files so that you can control what students have access to AND can store important past files or versions in your course.<\/p>\n<p>I know, I know &#8211; you&#8217;ve checked to make sure that those files you don&#8217;t want to see are unpublished, but there is often confusion with multiple versions and folder access that may cause an interruption in students being able to see files you want. So, how do you give access to the files without the Files on the menu? Link to them.<\/p>\n<p>Link to them in your modules:<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-6467\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.jccc.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/Screenshot-2024-02-15-095857.png\" alt=\"screenshot of add files to module\" width=\"777\" height=\"553\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.jccc.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/Screenshot-2024-02-15-095857.png 777w, https:\/\/blogs.jccc.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/Screenshot-2024-02-15-095857-420x299.png 420w, https:\/\/blogs.jccc.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/Screenshot-2024-02-15-095857-744x530.png 744w, https:\/\/blogs.jccc.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/Screenshot-2024-02-15-095857-768x547.png 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 777px) 100vw, 777px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Link them in a Page:<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-6468\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.jccc.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/Screenshot-2024-02-15-100039.png\" alt=\"screenshot of adding file to page\" width=\"810\" height=\"507\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.jccc.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/Screenshot-2024-02-15-100039.png 810w, https:\/\/blogs.jccc.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/Screenshot-2024-02-15-100039-420x263.png 420w, https:\/\/blogs.jccc.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/Screenshot-2024-02-15-100039-744x466.png 744w, https:\/\/blogs.jccc.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/Screenshot-2024-02-15-100039-768x481.png 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 810px) 100vw, 810px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Even open them by default in a page:<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-6469\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.jccc.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/Screenshot-2024-02-15-100233.png\" alt=\"screenshot of canvas link options\" width=\"330\" height=\"512\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>And finally &#8211; how do you keep students from accessing the Files on the navigation menu? Turn it off in Settings &gt; Navigation tab:<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-6471\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.jccc.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/Screenshot-2024-02-15-100628.png\" alt=\"screenshot hide Files \" width=\"506\" height=\"125\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.jccc.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/Screenshot-2024-02-15-100628.png 506w, https:\/\/blogs.jccc.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/Screenshot-2024-02-15-100628-420x104.png 420w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 506px) 100vw, 506px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>As always, let us know if you have any questions or need assistance with your course. Want to do a full evaluation or course redesign? <a href=\"https:\/\/forms.office.com\/r\/dY18dUshqV?origin=lprLink\">Let us know!<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"entry-summary\"><p>Are you one of\u00a0those instructors that leaves your file cabinet open for students? And then your students can&#8217;t find the&hellip;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"link-more\">\n\t<a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.jccc.edu\/2024\/02\/15\/tip-hide-your-file-cabinet\/\" class=\"more-link\">\n\t\tContinue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &ldquo;Tip &#8211; Hide Your File Cabinet!&rdquo;<\/span>&hellip;\t<\/a>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":721,"featured_media":6466,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"page-template\/_sidebar.php","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[15],"tags":[37,53],"class_list":["post-6465","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-canvas","tag-canvas","tag-tip","entry"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/blogs.jccc.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/Screenshot-2024-02-15-094110.png","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6byRN-1Gh","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.jccc.edu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6465"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.jccc.edu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.jccc.edu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.jccc.edu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/721"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.jccc.edu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6465"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.jccc.edu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6465\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6472,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.jccc.edu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6465\/revisions\/6472"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.jccc.edu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6466"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.jccc.edu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6465"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.jccc.edu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6465"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.jccc.edu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6465"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}