Learn@UWSuperior - Student's Guide

Dropbox

Dropbox is a convenient way to send assignments to your instructor.

After you click on the Dropbox link on the Navigation Bar, you should enter the Dropbox area as shown in the image above.

There are three sections in the Dropbox area.

• Folder
• Submitted Files
• Feedback

Folder

Your instructor creates Folders, so you turn in your assignments without emailing or handing a paper copy of your assignment to your instructor.  In order to add a file to a Folder (Upload a file):

• Click on the particular Folder that you wish to use.
• Once you click on the title of the folder, the Drop Off Files page will open.  The screen shot below shows the Drop Off Files page.



• Enter the number of files you will be adding to the Dropbox in the text box.
• Then click on the Next button if you want to continue, otherwise click on the Cancel button.
• If you clicked on the Next button, the page shown below will appear on your screen.



• Click on the Browse button to navigate through the files on your computer (and any network drive you are attached to), select the file that you want to upload, and click the Open button.  In the text box labeled Description you can type a message to your instructor, such as, "This is the paper about Jerry Rubin".
• Click on the Upload button.  Your file will be uplaoded to the Folder and you will see a page confirming that the file was added to the Folder successfully.



• This page will also include statistics of the file that you uploaded.



• You will receive an email to your campus email account from the Learn@UWSuperior System Administrator notifying you that you have successfully submitted your file.
• Click on the Done button to return to the Dropbox page.
• Click on the History button to see a list of all the files that you have submitted through the Dropbox in this class.

Submitted Files

The Submitted Files section shows how many files were submitted to each Folder.  In the screen shot below, the arrow points at where the number of files that you submitted would be displayed.

Feedback

The Feedback section contains any comments left by your instructor after checking the files you have submitted.

To view the feedback, click on the View hyperlink in the Feedback column.  In the screen shot of the main Dropbox page shown below, the arrow points at the View hyperlink.

• You will be able to view the submission information as well as the feedback on the page you will go to.  In the screen shot below, the arrow points to the feedback that the instructor has left.



• Your instructor may have attached a file along with his/her feedback.  The file will be under File(s).  To open the File, click on the file name.  A dialog box will appear asking you whether you want to Open, Save,or Cancel. 
  • If you want to open the file without saving it, click on the Open button, then the file will open in your browser.
  • If you want to save the file to you computer, click on the Save button.  A dialog box will open allowing you to choose the name and location of the saved file; navigate through the dialog box and click on the Save button.
  • If you do not want to open or save the file, click on the Cancel button.
• To go back to the Dropbox main page, click on the Back button.