Add Your Own Resource Materials

You can add any file as a resource for your courses. You can determine which resource materials you want your students to see, and which are for your own use only.

Important: Only the course creator can add resource materials to a course. If you are not the course creator, contact the course creator listed in the Class Settings page to request that your resource materials be added to your course.

Always observe the following considerations when adding your own resource materials:

Make sure you have permission to use any resource materials you share with your students. Do not share copyrighted materials like music files or copyrighted content from a textbook you have not adopted for your class.
Make sure your students will be able to open and view the resource materials you share with them. Many popular applications can now save documents in PDF format, which your students can open using the free Adobe Reader. PDF documents also offer some protection against modification.
If your resources must be viewed with a particular application, communicate this requirement to your students and let them know how they can obtain the required application.

To add your own resource materials in WebAssign:

Open the My Classes or ClassView page.
- For My Classes, click Tasks > My Classes Page and find the section you want.
- For ClassView, click Jump to Class and select the section you want.
Click the Resources tab.

If the textbook you are using provides resources, those resources are listed below My Class Resources under a heading that identifies the textbook.
Click Add either in My Class Resources or in the list of textbook resources.
- You can always add resources to My Class Resources, even if your textbook does not provide any resource materials.
- If your textbook provides resource materials, you might want to add some of your resources in the list of textbook resources in order to group it with other resources that apply to a specific chapter or section of the book. General informational resources such as syllabi should always be added to My Class Resources.

In the Add File window, either upload a file from your computer or select a file that you have previously uploaded to WebAssign.

To do this	Do this
To upload a file from your computer:	Click Browse or Choose File, depending on your browser. Navigate to the file you want to upload. Click Open or Choose, depending on your browser. In the Add File window, click Upload. When the file is uploaded, it is added to the list of resources, and it is also stored in your Folders view in WebAssign.
To use a file that you have previously uploaded to WebAssign:	Click My Files. Navigate in your Folders view to the file you want to use and select its check box. You can select more than one file. Click Add Selected. The selected files are added to the list of resources.

To do this

Do this

To upload a file from your computer:

Click Browse or Choose File, depending on your browser.
Navigate to the file you want to upload.
Click Open or Choose, depending on your browser.
In the Add File window, click Upload.

When the file is uploaded, it is added to the list of resources, and it is also stored in your Folders view in WebAssign.

To use a file that you have previously uploaded to WebAssign:

Click My Files.
Navigate in your Folders view to the file you want to use and select its check box. You can select more than one file.
Click Add Selected.

The selected files are added to the list of resources.

Your resources are indicated with an instructor icon icon .

Tip: If you are adding resource materials for a course with multiple sections taught by different instructors, you might want to rename resource materials to identify either the instructor or section. This helps each instructor to identify their own resources since the list of resources displays the resources for all sections of the course. See Rename Resource Materials.

Select the check box for each resource you want your students to see.
Click Save at the bottom of the My Class Resources module.
If you selected or cleared any check boxes for textbook resources, click Save at the bottom of that module.

The resources you have selected to share with your students are displayed on your students' Home page for your class.