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UND has access to content management where you can store, share, and publish content. You can store and find content in personal, course, and institution folders in the Content Collection, and link to these files in different areas of your course. You can store files you upload to your course in the Content Collection and link to them again.
Access the Content Collection
In the list where your name appears, select Tools to access the global functions that are outside a course.
The cross-course Blackboard tools you're familiar with are available on the Tools page, such as the Content Collection.
In the Content Collection, you can upload files to use in your courses. You also have access to the files you added to your courses when you created content.
About Files and Folders
A folder stores files and other folders in the Content Collection. All folders are contained within other folders up to the top-level (/) folder. Entire content areas are folders stored under the top-level folder. Be aware that top-level folder access is generally reserved for administrators.
The Content Collection also stores files. These files are automatically available to the user who added the files. To share the file with other users, they need appropriate permissions. Permissions, comments, and metadata functions work the same for files as for folders. Files include several other management features that aren't used for folders.
See the About Files and Folders help article for information on managing the Content Collection files and folders.
Create and Edit Content in the Content Collection
You can create files to contribute to the Content Collection or create folders to help keep things organized.
Remember that you can only create folders and files in areas of the Content Collection where you have permissions to do so.
See the Create and Edit Content in the Content Collection help article for more information.
Upload any documents, photos, folders, and work to the Content Collection. You can use your username folder to store personal course files that you're working on. When you're ready, you can submit the files or attach them to other coursework. In your courses, you can add links to files stored in the Content Collection. You can also link to projects you may be working on.
You can download items and any associated metadata from the Content Collection. The result is a .ZIP file package that contains the original structure of the files and folders as well as a single .XML file that defines the metadata for all files and folders in the package.
If you've downloaded an item from the Content Collection and made edits, you can upload the package and the associated metadata. When complete, the files and folders overwrite the existing files or folders (or add a new version) in the Content Collection. The item's metadata file in the package overwrites the existing metadata as well.
See the Upload and Download Packages help article for details.
Organize and Manage the Content Collection
In the Content Collection, you can manage content by organizing it in folders. Organized content makes it easier to manage permissions for that content, because you can grant permissions to users based on folders rather than individual files.
The Organize and Manage the Content Collection help article shows you how share and find content, how to set up a web folder or shared location for accessing your content, and how to enhance your course with content from the Library.
Share and Find Content in the Content Collection
The Content Collection contains many tools to share and search for content. These options depend on the level of the shared folder. For example, the permissions you set on a top-level folder versus a sub-folder affect the search tools that are available to those users.
See the Share and Find Content in the Content Collection help article for information on finding folders, bookmarks, workflows and emailing files and folders to specific users.