Making Your Materials Items Publicly Accessible

When you use the Materials tool to upload an item, you can choose to keep that item accessible only to members of your site, or you can choose to display the item to anyone who can log into the system. The latter option also allows you to share an item with the participants of another site.

To allow people outside your site to see an item in your Materials, follow these steps:

1. Click My Workspace to access your personal items, or click a course or project site tab to access items there.
   
   
2. In the menubar, click Materials.
   
   
3. Find the folder or file you wish to make public, and to the right of its name, from the Actions menu choose Revise Details.
   
   
4. Under "Availability and Access", use the checkbox to select This file is publicly viewable.
   
   
5. Click Update.

After you've made your files publicly viewable, you can access and share them via the web. To find the public URL for a file in Materials, see Finding the URL of a Materials item.