 This video will show you how to zip up your GIS data in order to submit it for assignments in your GIS coursework. It's important to keep in mind that a GIS data layer is often not a single file. It's a collection of files and thus grabbing just the .shp file or an individual GIS file and Windows Explorer and submitting it will lead to corrupt data. So please follow carefully these instructions before you submit your GIS data. Let's start with a simple example. I've got some puzzle data that I've looked on for an assignment. I'd now like to rename this and zip it up for an assignment that's due. Let's go into our catalog and here I'm going to look at my data. You can see here it's located in my submit data folder. But like I said I'd like to rename this so I'd like to create a copy of it and store it in a new folder. Over Windows Explorer I'm going to create a new folder with my name. Here I'm just going to type in first name and last name. You'd want to put your name in there. Back in ArcGIS I'm going to refresh my view so I can see that folder I just created and now I'm going to copy and paste that puzzle shape file into that folder. Once I've pasted that shape file I can rename it in our catalog by clicking on it once and typing in a new name. Back in Windows Explorer we can go in and we can see that the shape file and all the associated files have been renamed successfully. We can now go ahead and create a zip file by compressing the entire folder. Once we have our zip file we can go in and just confirm all the files are there prior to submitting it. So remember when it comes to moving, renaming, copying or any other data management task with GIS data make sure you do it within ArcGIS otherwise you risk corrupting your data.