13. File Picker in Moodle 3.3 Video Lecture | Moodle: Create Personalized Online Class - Professional Skills

What is the file picker?
In this video
we're going to explore Moodle's file
picker and how you can use it.
You might
see the file picker if you upload a file
using the activity chooser or if you're
in the text editor and want to add an
image through the image icon or a media
file such as sound or video by clicking
the Moodle media icon.
If we click to add a file, on the next
screen when we scroll down to content, we
can access the file picker by clicking
the Add button.
What you see on the left
side are links which are known as
repositories and each of these are
places where you can retrieve files to
display on your course.
The one you'll use most often is Upload
a file.
This will allow you to access
your documents from your computer or USB
drive.
Server files are the other files in
other courses which you have access to
as a teacher, so for instance if you're
teaching Grade 1 English in one course
and you wanted to add a file that you
had used in Grade 2 English a different
course, you go to Server files to locate
it.
Recent files shows you the last few
files that you've uploaded and it is
context sensitive.
This means that Moodle knows if you want
to upload an image through the image
icon it will only show you images; if you
want to upload a sound file using the
media icon, it will only show you media
files.
Private files allows you to retrieve
files you have previously uploaded in
your personal private file space, which
we'll look at in a separate video.
URL downloader allows you to add a web
link and it will download for you the
images on that webpage.
Other links or repositories will appear
according to what your administrator has
enabled, so in this site for example you
could go to Wikimedia if you wanted to
find an image which you could search for
with a particular size or also on this
site you could retrieve files from your
Google drive, Dropbox or Microsoft
Onedrive account.
The files in the file picker can be
displayed in three different ways and if
we click Recent files, you can see how
this works.
If you look at the far right, files are
displayed like a tree.
The middle button
displays them with details of their size,
type, when they were last modified, and
the third button shows them as icons
displaying what type file they are, so
for instance we can easily see that this
that this is a PDF file and this is a Word document.