Files and links for students

Use File for anything students should download or print: an observation sheet for fieldwork, a data set, a form to fill in by hand. Use Website to send them to a page outside Praktikal, such as a map of observation sites or an online tool.

Placed right beside the task, both are found exactly when they are needed, instead of in a message students have to search for.

1. In the worksheet, click the + where the file belongs and choose File on the New tab (type it into the search if it is not listed).

2. Click Add caption and write a title, then Add description and say what the file is for.

3. Click Select file and choose the document on your computer. Its file name appears under the description; Remove takes it off again.

4. Click the tick to finish.

5. Click the + after the file and choose Website. Write a title and a description, and paste the address into the field marked https://.

6. Click the tick. The address is saved when you finish editing, so check the card afterwards: a website without an address shows Missing address.

Students see the file as a card with its title, description and file name, and a Download button that saves the original file.

The website card shows its title, description and address with a Visit site button. The page opens in a new tab, so the lesson stays open behind it. If the address points straight at a file, the button reads Download instead.

• Say in the description what to do with the file: “Print it and take it outside” is clearer than the file name alone.

• Link to a stable page of a trusted site rather than to a search result.

• Check the link before the lesson. The page lives outside Praktikal and can move or change.

• If you want to edit the handout's content in Praktikal, import the document as a lesson from My materials instead of attaching it as a file.