Keeping track of all your notes, outlines, and drafts can be challenging. Naming files clearly, saving them, and keeping track of multiple versions are especially important if your instructor requires you to submit your work electronically, if you work on projects collaboratively with other students, or if you share electronic files for peer review with your classmates.

The following example shows a student’s system for saving files for a course portfolio.

Managing files

The other pages in this section give some guidelines for managing files.

Naming your files

Saving your files

Sharing files

For specific advice about organizing a multimodal project—one that might consist of text files, audio files, video clips, and images—see Managing your multimodal project.