How to upload and manage resources that are shared with the group or privately with individual learners.
1: What resources can be uploaded?
One of the core objectives of GiraffePad is to help you keep everything relevant to your learning events in one place. The resources section allows you to upload files such as Word documents, PDF's, spreadsheets and photo's (of flip charts for example!). You can also upload web links for articles or sites of interest to your learners. Also use the web links to upload videos (hosted on YouTube or Vimeo) which will embed and play in the event page.
2: Sharing resources with the group:
The "Event resources" on the main event page is where you share resources that the whole group of learners can access. To upload a file simply click on "Upload file(s)" and this will open the pop-up to load a file from the device you are using. To upload a web link or video simply click on the "+web link" and you will open a pop-up to paste in the relevant web link.
3: Sharing resources privately with individual learners:
When the resource is specific to an individual learner (personality profile, video feedback, individual questionnaires etc) you can do this privately:
- Click on the relevant learner in the list of learners: this will open up their learner page.
- Scroll down to "Learners personal resources".
- Upload files or web links using the relevant buttons.
4: Managing learners uploads:
Learners have the function to upload resources to either share privately with you or with the whole group. You will notice that all resources are tagged with the name of the person who uploaded it to make ownership clear and transparent.
If they have shared privately with you simply click on the resource in their "Learners personal resources" section. This will enable you to download the resource to your device to view and edit/respond to if required. If they have uploaded a video privately to you simply click on play and you can view it embedded in GiraffePad.
If they have shared with the group it will appear in the "Event resources". Should you decide this needs to be made private to the learner (shared in error or not appropriate) you can click on the padlock next to the resource and this will return it to the personal resources of that learner:
4: Uploading repeat resources:
Any resources you upload to GiraffePad will also be stored in your general "Resources" library on the side menu. If you use the same resource on multiple events you can upload it from here.
Simply click on the "Add to event" button next to the relevant resource and it will give you a list of your events to choose which one to upload to.
5: Deleting resources:
If you decide to delete a resource from an event: open that event page, scroll down to the resources, click on the X next to the relevant document, file, article, video etc. This will delete it from the event page and also from your learners event page. It will not delete it from your general resource library.