Foldr – Sidmouth College ICT

What is Foldr? Foldr web app enables access to files and documents anywhere and at any time. Foldr acts as a gateway between the college system, your favourite cloud services and all of your connected devices, including desktops, laptops, tablets and smartphones.

What is Foldr?

Foldr web app enables access to files and documents anywhere and at any time. Foldr acts as a gateway between the college system, your favourite cloud services and all of your connected devices, including desktops, laptops, tablets and smartphones.

With the Foldr web app, you can access your files from any device with a web browser. It is easy to preview, download and upload both files and folders. You can also manage your work by renaming, deleting and moving documents just as you would on a PC.

Foldr uses your existing college username and password to provide access to your documents folder and shared college drives such as the Public drive (P drive).

To access Foldr simply type the following web address into your browser and login with your college credentials (username and password).

https://foldr.sidmouthcollege.devon.sch.uk

Now is a good time to link your OneDrive/Office365 files to Foldr

Add OneDrive to your foldr account

The ‘My Files’ page is shown and this provides access to college files.

It is necessary to link your ‘OneDrive/Office 365’ files to foldr.

Click on your name (top right) to open the menu.

Click on services

Select OneDrive/Office 365

OneDrive/Office 365 files are now available through foldr.

Browse your files and folders

Explore your folders and files to locate required file(s)

To view or edit a file simply select the item and choose the action required from the window that appears.

Download – download a copy to your local machine.

Edit with Microsoft Office – Open the file with the appropriate Office application (if available on your machine)

Edit with Microsoft Office Online – Opens the file with the appropriate Office Online application

Foldr will give the option of discarding or saving changes

Edit with Google G Suite – Opens the file with the Docs application (Again you will have the option to save/discard)

The available actions will depend on the type of file selection, for example, the options for a PDF file are to view or downloaded.

Transfer files – simple Drag & Drop

Transferring files between your PC and Foldr is straightforward. Simply ‘drag and drop’ from the PC to the required Foldr location.

File copied to Foldr location

Use your smartphone to access your Foldr account

Download the app for your device (Play Store/App Store)

Once installed, open the app. You will be presented with a screen requesting the Foldr Address (IMPORTANT: A Foldr address is REQUIRED for this application to work, it does not provide access without it), and your college username and password.

The college Foldr address is foldr.sidmouthcollege.devon.sch.uk

Once you have logged in the Network folders and drives are accessible. Your college My Documents folder enables you to browse, to select and view file previews.

With Foldr you can manage your files and folders as if you were on a PC.

Tap the Action drop-down arrow and select from the Action Menu to get started.

If you need to edit one of your files, simply open the file with the appropriate app, make the necessary changes and save the file to the desired location. With ‘Auto-save’ activated changes will be automatically saved. (Opening a Word document on an Android device is a similar process to that outlined below for an iPhone – eg open the Word app, use Open, select Other Cloud Storage and then Foldr.)

Open and edit a Word document on an iPhone or iPad

You will need to have the Microsoft Word app along with the Foldr app installed on your device.