Sometimes students work in applications like OpenOffice, a free open source application downloaded from the Interent. OpenOffice is like Office but not quite. So when you use it and add it to the eLearn dropbox it doesn't open. It says the file is corrupt. eLearn works primarily with Office 97-2003 and Office 2007.
Hope is not lost. Ask someone at the library's Help Desk for a computer that has OpenOffice. The next step is to login to eLearn and open the dropbox with the documents. The documents then need to be saved to the computer desktop. You can right click on the file name to do this. A submenu pops up. Open OpenOffice and then use it to open the documents from the desktop. Save the documents again with a new name and Save as Type Office 97-2003 or as .rtf (rich text format). Now that the OpenOffice documents have been resaved in these file types, you can upload these files to the dropbox.
If you continue to use OpenOffice for your eLearn assignments...
You can but you need to save any documents you create in it as a Rich Text Format also refered to as .rtf. You can do this by going to SAVE AS. Click on the down arrow next to the Save as Type textbox and select Rich Text Format. Click Save.
When you Browse for your documents to put them in the dropbox, make sure you have the .rtf version. You can hold the cursor over the file and a textbox will appear giving you information on that file.
