Please read thoroughly and understand this before attempting to create Learning Resources on the network. The functionality of shared resources has easy menu driven procedures for creating your own shared resources. Just a few simple clicks will quickly and easily allow you to distribute pictures and documents, create a homework \u2018handing in folder\u2019 and add web links to help with research.

using these resources, so let\u2019s make it as easy to use for them as possible; always fill-in the Subject, Member of Staff and Year fields then please give the resource a \u2018friendly\u2019 name (easy-to-spot & remember) and make the titles short and meaningful \u2013 A much larger box appears for a detailed description.

When the program launches, it will validate your user details, to check if you have the rights to edit/create resources. If so, you will then be presented with a screen similar to the following:

This initial screen will displayall the learning resources currently available. It is possible to reduce the size of the list, by selecting a Teacher\u2019s name, Subject or both.

To create your own learning resource, you should first prepare all the material you are going to use; i.e. ensure you know where to find any files, make notes of website addresses (URLs) etc.

as descriptive as possible, as this

The description box should be used to add extra information that appears when the title is selected.

easy to identify. You MUST indicate ownership of resources by using your Faculty/Department name and your Member of Staff name. You must not leave thes as \u2018none specified\u2019. Using the Year option may be useful also.

Once you open your new resource, you need to click on it with the right mouse button to get the menu of options, as shown here:

You could place files directly into this folder, these files would be read by all users, but students can not change, re- name, or delete files, nor does it give the resource any \u2018depth\u2019.

A far better way is to use a structured approach and have \u2018top-level-down\u2019 folders, with different types of sub-folders that can be added to the resource. Don\u2019t be tempted to create each learning resource as a separate top-level folder, use folder nesting. Imagine the confusion if our students find 275 top-level resources to look through (and that\u2019s just from 5 Teachers with 5 Resources from each faculty)