This article will cover the "Class Documents" tab, which each classroom will have. This tab can be accessed via "Admin Portal" > "Classes" > select your class from either the "Active Classes" or "Archived Classes" sections > "Class Documents". We've provided a screenshot below of an example classroom's "Class Documents" tab:
The "Class Documents" tab allows Instructors to organize links to cloud-hosted documents that can be shared during a live class session. Currently, Engageli supports cloud documents from Google Suite and Microsoft 365.
This feature proves beneficial in situations where you wish to enable the whole class to work together on a document you've prepared in advance. For instance, you could share a document listing the names of state capitals and ask participants to enter the corresponding state in the neighboring column.
Note: Any restrictions on the document, such view or edit limitations, would still be applicable when sharing it via our platform. Therefore, be sure to adjust such restrictions on the document to ensure users don't encounter issues loading or interacting with it.
As the page title suggests, documents added to this tab are intended to be shared with the entire classroom. If you need to share a different document with each table in your classroom, please see the article that covers the "Table Documents" tab.
We'll now cover all the fields seen at the top of this page:
- Delete Document - To remove a class document, mark the box next to it and click this button. Note that this only removes the link to the document from our system, it does not delete the document from your cloud platform.
- Edit Document - To edit a class document's title or URL, mark the box next to it and click this button.
- Add Document - Clicking this button will open a window where you will be prompted to provide the cloud document's URL, as well as for a title by which our system will reference this document. The URL for the cloud document can often be generated by going to your document's "share" options and generating a link for it.
The bottom portion of this page contains a table that shows all the table documents you've added to the classroom. We'll describe each of the columns below:
- Title - The title assigned to this document at the time it it was entered into our system.
- Type - This will show the cloud platform associated with the document. This value is auto-generated, based on the URL for the document. Currently, this value will either be "G-Suite" or "Microsoft365".
- Link - The link to the cloud document.
- Open Link in a New Tab - Clicking this button will open the link in a new browser tab. Opening these links in a private or incognito window is a good method to test if others will be able to load the document without issues.