Folders are useful for organizing and structuring content in a Content Area. For example, Instructors may add folders for each week of the course to a Content Area, or organize the Content Area by topic, such as separate folder for Assignments, Assessments, and Group Projects.
Once a folder is created, content and additional subfolders may be added to it. All of the Content Types available in Content Areas may be added to a folder.
Follow the steps below to add a folder to a Content Area:
Open a Content Area, such as Course Documents, from the Control Panel.
Select Add Folder from the Action Bar.
Complete the Add Folder page and click Submit.
Availability of items in a Content Area can be established on an item-by-item basis, but the actual display of items to users is contingent upon the availability of any parent folder on up to the root of the content area. If any parent folder is unavailable, the items within it are unavailable. For example, if a folder is set to Unavailable, but items within the folder are set to Available, users would be unable to view the items within the folder.
This is also true for items with Adaptive Release rules. If a folder has a rule that makes it unavailable to a Student, all content wihin that folder is also unavailable to the user.