Understanding OneDrive and Moodle files

Re: Understanding OneDrive and Moodle files

by Rob Davenport -
Number of replies: 0
Hi Jerry,

To answer your questions based on some testing we have done:
  1. If you setup OneDrive with a service account, the user gets 2 options when they choose a file from OneDrive:
    1. Upload the file into Moodle. Your upload file size limit is applied
    2. Access controlled link: The file (behind the scenes) is copied to the Service Account OneDrive, and linked to the Assignment as a submission. This means the student cannot modify it, but the Teacher can read it. HOWEVER our testing shows that it can only handle about 200MB files sizes before the upload process (CURL request) times out and it fails.
  2. See 1.2 above
  3. As the linked file (when using the Access Controlled link) is a copy placed into the Service Account OneDrive, the linked file remains available regardless what happens to the user's OneDrive account, or the original file itself.
We also hit issues about directory path lengths it was using in OneDrive, so if you have a large site with multiple embedded course categories - this could also be an issue you hit.

Cheers, Rob.

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