Course materials
The Materials tab is every file shared with your course, whether it was handed out in a lecture or attached to the course itself, searchable by name and downloadable in one selection.
The Materials tab is the course's shelf: every document, slide deck, spreadsheet, image and video your teachers have shared with you, newest first.
Databases
CS204IntermediateIn progressBSc Computer Science · CS 2nd year A · Fall 2025
Normalisation worksheet.pdf
Query optimisation820 KB·2 days agoCourse syllabus.pdf
Course1.4 MB·3 weeks agoSlides, week 7.pptx
Indexing strategies4.2 MB·last weekSample dataset.xlsx
Course318 KB·3 weeks ago
Reading a row
| Part of the row | What it means |
|---|---|
| Icon on the left | The kind of file: PDF, image, video, slides, spreadsheet, document, or a plain page for anything else |
| Name | What your teacher called it. Selecting it downloads the file |
| Course | It belongs to the course as a whole, not to any one lecture |
| A lecture name | It was handed out in that lecture. Selecting it opens the lecture |
| Size | In B, KB or MB |
| Date | When it was shared, written as time ago |
The name is the label your teacher gave the file, which is not always the file's own name. If they left the label empty, the real file name is shown instead.
Course files and lecture files
Every file here is one of two kinds, and the difference decides who can see it.
Course files
Attached to the course itself, and visible to every student enrolled in it. The syllabus, the reading list, the reference sheet you will use all term.
Lecture files
Attached to one lecture, and visible only to the students who were put on that lecture. The worksheet from Tuesday's lab, the slides from a guest lecture.
A classmate can have a file you do not
If a lecture was arranged for part of the class and you were not on it, its files are not yours either. This is the single most common reason two students in the same course see different lists. It is not a permissions fault to report; ask your teacher to share the file with the course if you should have it.
The same file appears in more than one place, and it is always the same file:
- On the lecture's own page, under Materials.
- In Recent materials on the course Overview, which shows the five newest.
- In Recent Materials on Home, across all your courses.
Downloading
Selecting the file name downloads it. So does the arrow on the right of the row. There is no preview step and no separate download page: the file arrives wherever your browser puts downloads, under its original name.
If it fails, a message says Couldn't start the download. Please try again. Selecting the name again is the right response. Download links are generated at the moment you select, so a stale page is not the problem.
You cannot upload anything here
Materials is one-way. There is no upload button, no folder you can add to, and no way to share a file with your class from this screen. Sharing among students happens in the Forum, where you can attach images to a post.
Searching
The search box filters the list as you type, and it matches the file name only. It does not look inside documents, and it does not match the lecture a file came from.
Two different empty states tell you which situation you are in:
| What you see | What it means |
|---|---|
| No materials have been shared yet. | Nothing has been shared with this course. There is no search box, because there is nothing to search |
| No materials match your search. | Files exist, but none match what you typed. The search box stays, so you can clear it |
That distinction is deliberate: an untouched course and a search with no hits look nothing alike, so you never have to guess which one you are looking at.
Troubleshooting
Either it has not been shared yet, or it belongs to a lecture you were not on. Check the lecture on the Lectures tab first: if the row shows a materials count, the files are there and you can open them from the lecture. If it does not, ask your teacher.
Search matches file names, not file contents. Search for what the file is called, or clear the box and scan the list, which is ordered newest first.
EasyClass hands you the file exactly as your teacher uploaded it. If it will not open, you are missing an application for that format rather than hitting a problem with the download. The icon on the row tells you what you are dealing with before you select it.
Rows attached to a lecture name it, and rows that belong to the course say Course. If a file says Course, no lecture owns it, so there is nothing more specific to find.
Related
Lectures
The Lectures tab is every lecture of a course, past and future. Each one opens onto its own page with the files handed out, your attendance and the replay if there is one.
Assignments and grades
Track what coursework is open, done or missed, and read the marks your teachers have shared, course by course.