Digital Media Group

Create a new folder by either clicking on: File - New - Folder or by right clicking on the folder and selecting New - Folder from the menu that appears.

Give it a name that will represent what the folder's task will be (i.e. assignment drop box or assignment submission folder).

Now that you have a new folder, you must change the folder's properties so that the students in your class have access to submit files but nothing else.

You can access the folder's properties by right clicking on the folder created in step 1 and select the Properties option.

NOTE: Please make sure that you are changing the permissions for NEW folder ONLY and NOT the main course folder on the shared drive. If the permissions are changed on the main folder, you risk removing the permissions for everyone who has been given access.

In the folder's properties window, click on the folder's security tab.

Notice that they list of user who have access to this folder. Typically, the professor, their TAs and the user group which has access to this folder would be listed here. In the case of this example, Douglas McCallum would be considered the administrator of this folder and the user group, arpl_crsSample, is the course group whose permissions are going to be changed to create the drop box.

Click on the course user group. Please a check mark in the DENY column next to the permissions: READ & EXECUTE, LIST FOLDER CONTENTS, and READ. Place a check mark in the ALLOW column next to WRITE.

Click the OK button.

Your drop box is now complete.

Using the drop box is easy but can seem troublesome since the user no longer has access to see what is in the folder (i.e. can not open the folder to place the file IN it).

To use the drop box, a student needs to click and drag the file or copy and paste the file to be submitted into the drop box.

If a student tries to resubmit the file, after the original file has been submitted, the error pictured to the left will appear.