Moodle allows instructors to upload files into its database for future use. This article shows how to upload files to your Moodle course space. You can access the files that are in your course space by clicking on the Files link under the Administration Block. Students do not have access to these files until you create a link to these files from the frontpage of the course. For directions on how to make a file that has already been uploaded to your Moodle course space available to your students (link to a file), please click here.
Moodle allows you upload one file at a time. Please look below for steps to upload a compressed .ZIP file which comes in handy when wanting to upload multiple files.
1. Log in to Moodle and select the course.
2. Click the Files link under Administration.
3. Click the
Upload a file button.
4. Click the
Browse button.
5. Select the file to upload, then click
Open to continue.
Note: Users can only upload single individual files or compressed .ZIP files. Once uploaded, Moodle allows users to unzip these .ZIP files and turn them into their own separate folder that can be used in content creation such as
Displaying a file folder or
Add a lightbox gallery.
6. Click the
Upload this file button to continue.
7. Once uploaded, Moodle will give you a confirmation message at the top of the screen and the upload file or folder will appear among the other files and folders with the date and time of upload. At this point the file has been uploaded and is in Moodle's database. Steps 8-10 are specifically in regards to .ZIP files.
8. Users have the option of
unzipping uploaded .ZIP files at any point and time by clicking the
Unzip link next to the .ZIP file shown in the image in step 7.
Note: This has to be done in order to use the compressed files in content creation. The current single file upload limit is 500MB.
9. Moodle will then unzip the files and place them into a folder with the same name as the .ZIP file. Once this is done, click
OK to continue.
10. The new unzipped folder will appear among the other files in the database and can be used in content creation, especially anything that involves using an uploaded directory which is more or less a predefined folder with specific files in it.
Note: The .ZIP file will still remain in the database after being unzipped. It will have to be manually deleted.
For directions on how to make a file that has already been uploaded to your Moodle course space available to your students (link to a file), please click here.
