Heather, I just ought to throw in that if you are collaborating on documents then you will start to see conflicting copies of them when people try and work synchronously. This needs to be seen coming so that a document that's intended for co-authoring can be split up into separate files or else something that supports collaborative authoring (typewith.me or googledocs, prezi or mindmeister) better can be used as a middle step before inserting into the draft on dropbox.
Also, for what it's worth, sugarsync wins over dropbox as a more comprehensive offering. It really feels designed from the floor up for collaborative, multi-device work, apart from the synchronous working issue which affects dropbox.
If you are at all worried about security then you can create a TrueCrypt partition within your dropbox folder.
Best wishes,
Mike
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----- Original Message -----
From: Heather Peake [[log in to unmask]]
Sent: 11/10/2012 07:39 GMT
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Subject: Re: [VLES] Document holding system
Hi
So the consensus would appear to be dropbox then.
Did I hear something about dropbox and computer registry meaning that it wasn't as secure as you thought or is that something old that has gone away or some other product entirely?
Moodle we are still on 1.9 - looking forward to Moodle 2.
Thanks everyone.
Heather Peake
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From: Virtual Learning Environments [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of Berni Durham-Jones
Sent: 10 October 2012 18:28
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Subject: Re: [VLES] Document holding system
dropbox is easy. Just create an account and away to go plus you can share documents.
Mooodle 2.3 is easier now as it has drag and drop facility and also you have a private files area.
Regards
Berni
On 10 Oct 2012, at 14:27, Heather Peake <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> Hello
> I'm after something that is first and foremost easy to use for the none IT type.
> I need it to be able to hold documents. Upload and download. And that is pretty much it.
>
> Moodle is out - too complicated.
> Google docs - too difficult.
>
> Any other ideas?
>
> Thanks
> Heather
>
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