The presentation will cover the full range of file sharing, from sharing within a section, between sections under the control of an individual section designer, through to file sharing across the institution. It will address sharing of individual files, IMS content packages and sharing based on templates. The implications and advantages of these different ways of sharing resources will be explored and contrasted.

With respect to individual files and IMS content sharing, the presenters have devised a way of empowering section designers to share files across the institution without the need for the intervention of an administrator. This is achieved by creating a separate group in the Learning Context Manager that has a single course into which faculty can be enrolled on as course designers, in addition to enrolments relating to their teaching. This enables them to create folders and files that can be shared with any other designer of that course. The exclusive purpose of that course is to able file sharing between faculty across the institution.

The presentation will further look at linking to files versus copying files, as well as ways of restricting permissions to edit files. It provides an insight into both the opportunities and the complexity of file sharing. Participants will be invited to talk about their experiences of file sharing in Vista at their institutions.