Saturday, 3 March 2012

Copy files into multiple folders (How To)

Barb and I were working together one morning, looking for a way to copy the same file into all the student folders. There are many ways to do this, but perhaps the best is a combination of keyboard and mouse action.

Essentially, you need to
1) Hold Down the Ctrl Key, and
2) drag the file across the screen, from one folder into another.

Here's a video screencast by Michael Chalk, where he shows one way to do this:



What about you - how would you share files with your students?

2 comments:

  1. This is immediately useful to the ICT teachers here at CNLC. Thanks.

    (I was Saving as each time to the next person's folder. THis is way quicker!)

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  2. Hi Jill. Thanks so much for your lovely comment. It's always wonderful to hear positive feedback like this ;-)

    michael

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