so one thing that's come up is that in
Microsoft teams in the files area
anybody by default can edit the files as
a teacher you might not want this you
might not want the students Mable to
change or modify or even delete the
files so what's actually running
Microsoft teams is an older platform
called SharePoint so you can change the
sharing of files at the individual level
what I recommend is actually creating a
file or folder rather maybe something
called locked files something like that
now you can do this with a file or with
a folder click the three dots and it
gives you an option to open in
SharePoint within SharePoint you have a
lot more control over how people can
access the files so what I'm gonna do
here is I'm going to hit the general
button because that's the name of the
folder and I created that locked files
folder I could have done that in teams
or here either way there's three dots
and you want to look for manage access
now when you do that this is the name of
our team that were and that's what it's
currently shared with this pencil means
that everybody in how teams can help can
edit it so what we want to do is want to
hit this pencil or the arrow next to the
pencil and change it to can view but not
can edit you could change it to stop
sharing and then they won't even see it
so you might find that useful if you're
putting files ahead of time that you
want to turn on and off also if you have
a bulk amount of files or files with a
folder structure you can actually just
drag those over in the browser and put
them in here in one step so if you're
somebody's got a massive amount of files
that's actually very useful but to the
question at hand just change this to Ken
view and then you can go ahead and close
this now if a student tries to access
this folder they will have read-only
access so I think I'm
logged-in is my daughter here so I have
a daughter in the district so I'm logged
in as herd you can see she only has
read-only access so if I want this
folder here if I want a file there I can
move it I will say you can't do it right
in teams unfortunately you'll have to do
it in SharePoint so again you're going
to open in SharePoint and then I made
like a test file so I'm gonna go back to
general and the nice thing about
SharePoint is I can just drag files so I
can just take this drag this example
file into there and now it will be in
the locked folder so now if I go to my
daughter it's probably gonna take a
little while to sync
but now we see the example file in there
and see how it's got this icon here she
only has read-only access to it we go
back out to the general and we no longer
see that file because it sits there so I
know it's a little bit of a hoop to jump
through but if you're somebody who wants
their files locks to students this
really is the easiest way although once
you create this locked folder any file
you put in there is going to
automatically be locked so I would go
with moving files in and in and out of
there
so hopefully you find that useful but
again we do as you go to files in teams
and then you click on the three dots
open in SharePoint and then what you're
looking for is to manage the permissions
so you might have to go above the folder
because this is a subfolder three dots
and you're going to manage access and
you're going to change that from a
pencil to kind of like an eyeball so
I'll have that so yeah hopefully that's
useful it's not for everybody