Giving Group Access to a Resources Folder

This tutorial assumes that you have already set up your groups in your course. If not, please see this tutorial for how to do that first. Below we show how to create a new folder in Resources and restrict access to that folder to one or more groups.

Enter your course Resources area and click Add. Note: If you have already created a folder and you now wish to restrict access to one or more groups, click the Revise link next to the folder name.

Select Empty Folder from the Add Item Type drop-down. If you have several group folders to set up you can select the desired number from the Number of folders to create drop-down. Enter a title for the folder, and optionally a description. Click the Display to selected groups radio button to see a list of your course groups. Check the box next to each group that needs access to this folder. If you are creating more than one folder, fill out this information for each folder. When done, click Add.

Now, when members of Group2 look in the course Resources folder, they will see the folder called Group2 Shared Files. Other members of the course will not see this folder.

Course Resources View, Group2 member	Course Resources View, not a Group2 member

Note that Group2 members do not have an Add link next to the Group2 Shared Files folder. This is because the default permissions on any folder in a course Resources area only allow read access to the folders. However, you can change permissions on the folder to allow any sort of access you like. See this tutorial for information on setting folder permissions.

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