File management

Maintain order over your files by instilling file management best practices: give your files comprehensive titles, and save them in appropriate subfolders (not just lobbed into the pile on the desktop!).

Read this week’s tip: Teaching Tip-File Management (pdf).

Chris Malmberg

Former Member of the UAF Instructional Design Team

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