Is it possible to provide a file to the students? I would send it as attachment on an E-mail message but there doesn't seem to be an attachment option under "Participants" Where can I put a file for students to grab?
If the file has to do with an assignment, you can link to it in the instructions. Upload the file, right click to copy the link, select some text, click the link button, paste the copied link. Your in biz.
Is there a reasonable way - or, indeed, any way - to upload a file and associate it with an assignment in Moodle 2.0+ without using the enhanced HTML editor? I haven't found one yet, but I'd definitely be interested in knowing because I really don't like using the HTML editor.
Hmm... I guess either I'm the only person who doesn't like the HTML editor, or this is a really difficult question to answer.
All I really want to be able to do is attach a few files to an assignment for students to download (in order to do the assignment), without jumping through too many hoops.
Hi Daniel. Are you using Moodle 1.9 or Moodle 2.0? What is it about linking to a file from the HTML editor that you don't like? I find it's quick to do - uploading your file directly from some hyperlinked words - and it looks neat for your students. (edit- just saw you are using 2.0 - but I still think making a link is quite straightforward)
It's not that I dislike "linking to a file from the HTML editor", it's that I dislike using the HTML editor at all. Or, I guess more accurately, I dislike being forced to use the HTML editor in order to access what used to be basic Moodle features.
You're right that it's straightforward to make a link - still significantly less straightforward than linking to course files was in 1.9, but perfectly reasonable - but in order to do it, you have to know the capability is there! There's no reason for any reasonable user to suspect that the "link" button allows you to upload files to a super-secret file area associated with the assignment.
More importantly, as I've discovered, there's no management interface for the super-secret file area. This results in bugs like http://tracker.moodle.org/browse/MDL-26388, frustration on the part of assignment writers, and confusion for students when they have to download a file called "assignment_version2.pdf" instead of "assignment.pdf" because Moodle decided it didn't like the name "assignment.pdf" anymore - even though, given the way Moodle's file systems work now, the file by definition can not be used in any other scope and there's absolutely no reason why it shouldn't just be replaceable with a new upload.
You're right that it's straightforward to make a link - still significantly less straightforward than linking to course files was in 1.9, but perfectly reasonable - but in order to do it, you have to know the capability is there! There's no reason for any reasonable user to suspect that the "link" button allows you to upload files to a super-secret file area associated with the assignment.
More importantly, as I've discovered, there's no management interface for the super-secret file area. This results in bugs like http://tracker.moodle.org/browse/MDL-26388, frustration on the part of assignment writers, and confusion for students when they have to download a file called "assignment_version2.pdf" instead of "assignment.pdf" because Moodle decided it didn't like the name "assignment.pdf" anymore - even though, given the way Moodle's file systems work now, the file by definition can not be used in any other scope and there's absolutely no reason why it shouldn't just be replaceable with a new upload.