What can you pick from the File picker?
The next screenshot shows a typical view of some links in the File picker:
The proper name for these links is repositories, but I like to think of them as a "lucky dip" can into which you can dig one of those long-handled pincers tools to get out a file of your choice.
There are many repositories you can have in the list. Your admin decides which ones your Moodle will use and Moodle itself is clever enough to know which ones are useful to you as well. If you want to add an image, for instance, it will show you Flickr or Picasa Web Albums. If you want to add a movie, it will show you YouTube. You can completely ignore them all if you simply want to upload files as we did just now, but just in case you are interested, here's a table of some of the most common repositories you might see and what they do.
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Name of repository |
What it does |
|---|---|
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Upload a file |
Click this one to get to your own stuff on your computer. |
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Server files |
Click here to look... |