The Drop Box tool creates a folder for each student in a course site or member in a collaboration site.  Each student or member is only able to access their own folder.

Students or members and instructors/site administrators can place files and create folders within their Drop Box folders.  Each student or member and their instructors/site administrators can also delete files and folders within their own student or member Drop Box.

The Drop Box mirrors the file management features and functionality of the Resources tool. See What is the Resources tool? for more information on how to add, upload, edit, and delete files and folders within Drop Box.  As with Resources, multiple files can also be uploaded using Drag and Drop.  You can also establish a WebDAV connection to a site's Drop Box to manipulate files and folders within it.

Note that an individual student's or site member's Drop Box folder does not have permissions options to allow the folder's contents to be shared with anyone other than instructors, site administrators, and the individual to whom the folder is assigned.  You can store items in Resources to share them with the entire site or specific groups, or to make them publicly viewable.  By default, members of collaboration sites can upload items to folders in Resources.  If you would like to allow students to upload and share materials with other students in a class, please see How do I allow students to upload and modify content in a Resources folder?

Note: For instructions on how to add this or any other tool to your site, see How do I add tools to my site?

When waitlists expire at the end of the add/drop period, any waitlisted students added to course sites via waitlist rosters who are still on the waitlist (i.e., waitlisted students who have not fully enrolled in the course) will be removed from those course sites. Instructors may also manually remove the waitlist roster from their course sites. In some tools, content created by waitlisted students is no longer available after they have been removed; in other tools, their content remains visible.

In most cases, you'll want to simply accept the default access settings that a) make your site available (published) and b) restrict access to only the individuals you add to the site yourself. However, modifying your site access configuration is possible using these features.

If you are assigned to have group discussions, projects or assignments, your instructor or site administrator may allow you to choose your own group.  From a set of available groups, you can select a group to join in Site Info.