Your professor may simply email the files to students, so be sure your uniqname@umich.edu email address is forwarding to an account you check regularly.   Also be certain you are using your uniqname@umich.edu email address in My iMpact.

When emailing files back to your professor, be aware that you cannot send attachments over 2MB in size through the University email system.

Professors can share files with students in the R:\Courses network folder.  The lab computers throughout the Business School are already able to access this folder.  This folder can be accessed on your laptop and from off campus through the internet using ftp.  The files and folders in R:\Courses are read-only - students cannot save or modify files in this network location.

Many Business School courses have worksites in CTools, a course communication and management web tool offered through the University of Michigan.  Professors can post announcements and additional documents on CTools.
 

There are a number of ways you can share files with your classmates:
 

	You could email the files to each other, so be sure your uniqname@umich.edu email address is forwarding to an account you check regularly.  Also be certain you are using your uniqname@umich.edu email address in My iMpact.  Please note that you cannot send attachments through the Student Directory in iMpact.
	If you use your ITCS email account, you cannot send attachments that are over 2MB.  To share large files, store them in the Shared or Public folders in your IFS space (or set permissions to a newly created folder) and your team members can use mFile to access that folder and its files.
	USB drives (popularly called Flash drives or thumb drives) are an affordable and convenient way to transport and share files.  Students can purchase USB drives through the UM Computer Showcase.
	Use our Office Communications Server (OCS) with Live Meeting to chat, share files and conduct audio/video conferences.
	You can create a Project Worksite in CTools.  Visit the Help topics for instructions.
	Team Spot Collaboration Rooms are available in Kresge.  Team Spot is a new collaborative technology from Tidebreak allowing team members to instantly work together on documents by actually linking their computers.  These rooms can be reserved from the Student Room Reservation system.  A new room type, “TeamSpot Collaboration Room,” has been added to the dropdown list.

 

Use mFile for easy access to your files and shared files in your classmates' file space.  Simply store your files in the Public or Shared folders in your IFS space, or create a folder with set permissions.  The files can be accessed by any member of the University with rights to IFS space and permissions set in your folder.
 

You can do more than just chat with Instant Messaging.  Use our Office Communications Server (OCS) with Live Meeting to chat, share files and conduct audio/video conferences.
 

You can create a website using UM.SiteMaker.  UM.SiteMaker is a web-based program, originated at the University of Michigan, that lets non-technical people make highly customized websites and web-databases. It is very flexible, and has been used to make sites that serve a wide variety of purposes.

CTools can be used for more than just Courses.  For collaboration, CTools provides tools to help organize communication and collaborative work on campus and around the world.  CTools offers easy access to and organization of multiple files and folders while allowing security permissions.

Use your IFS space to create a personal website.  Simply create a folder named "html" within your Public or Shared folder.  Read ITCS documentation for instructions.

You can also request a group account in IFS by contacting ITCS.
 

USB drives (popularly called Flash drives or thumb drives) are an affordable and convenient way to transport and share files.  Students can purchase USB drives through the UM Computer Showcase.

Many laptops and home computers have CD burners (please note that the Ross computing labs do not have CD burners).  A typical CD can hold 700MB of data.  If you use a CD-RW disk, you can rewrite the disk as often as you wish.