Central File Repository - What do you use?

[DerekStevens]

Does anyone use a 3rd party file hosting site to serve up files that can then be linked in multiple canvas courses? 

We have central "masters" that copy out content automatically, but some of our standard documentation/manuals are better served if we host them somewhere else rather than running them as individual "files" in each independent shell. 

• Blackboard Learn had a "Content Collection" area for this and it was a great way to update files dynamically across many courses at once.
• Sharepoint seems to be troublesome.
• Raw ftp lose some tracking that I'd like to have (version control/history)

Thanks.

Derek

[hechla]

We had created a "Learning Resource Library" (articles written by our SMEs) in a Canvas course shell that needed to be accessed by all courses. So I created a new subaccount for it and set the Visibility to Institution so anyone logged into our instance can view anything in that course. We also put a custom footer file (footer.html) that we iframe into every course page and assignment for copyright info. It's not the best solution for that but it works. 

We've since switched to Confluence for our learning resources library using an add-on called External Share to create public links that we can put in our courses. But we still use that Canvas course for the footer and other "resources" that need to be accessible to any and all courses. 

[Debra-Sheridan]

I'm interested in a repository outside the LMS. This is our second migration, and I have found migration tools to be less than adequate.