 What is the file picker? In this video we're going to explore Moodle's file picker and how you can use it. You might see the file picker if you upload a file using the activity chooser or if you're in the text editor and you want to add an image by clicking the image icon or a media file such as sound or video by clicking the Moodle media icon. If we click to add a file on the next screen when we scroll down to content we can access the file picker by clicking the add button. What you see down the left side are links which are known as repositories and each of these are places where you can retrieve files to display on your course. The one you'll use most often is upload a file. This will allow you to access your documents from your computer or USB drive. Server files are the other files in other courses which you have access to as a teacher. So for example if you're teaching grade one English in one course and you wanted to add a file that you'd had used in grade two English a different course you'd go to server files to find it. Recent files shows you the last few files that you've uploaded and it's context sensitive. This means that Moodle knows if you want to upload an image through the image icon it will only show you images. If you want to upload a sound file using the media icon it will only show you media files. Private files allows you to retrieve from your private files files you've uploaded previously in a personal space. We look at private files in a separate video. URL downloader allows you to add a web link and it will download for you the images on that web page. Other links or repositories will appear according to what your administrator has enabled. So for example you could go to wiki media if you wanted to find an image which you could search for with a particular size or you could retrieve files from your Google Drive, Dropbox or Microsoft One Drive account. The files in the file picker can be displayed in three different ways and if we click recent files we can see how this works. If you look at the far right files are displayed like a tree. The middle button displays them with details of their size type and when they were last modified and the third button shows them as icons displaying what type of file they are. So for example we can easily see this is a PowerPoint file and this is a PDF file.