Overview
EnderDrive is a shared file workspace inside Ender Turing. You use it to keep documents, recordings, images, and other supporting files in one place — organized into folders — and to reuse those files across the platform. Files stored here can be picked as learning materials in Skills and as media in Quizzes, and any file can be shared with someone else through a direct download link.
EnderDrive also serves as the landing place for files that Ender Turing generates for you. On-demand report exports, for example, are deposited as private files inside a Reports folder and remain visible only to the person who requested them. (Scheduled report exports are a separate feature and are delivered by email, not through EnderDrive.)
How It Works
Accessing EnderDrive
Open EnderDrive from the main navigation. The page is split into two parts:
A folder tree on the left that shows your full folder hierarchy.
A content area on the right that lists the folders and files inside the folder you are currently viewing.
Above the folder tree, a New button lets you create folders and (when you are inside a folder) upload files. The breadcrumb at the top of the content area shows where you are and lets you jump back to any parent folder by clicking its name.
Who Can Use EnderDrive
Access is controlled by two permission groups assigned to your role:
EnderDrive — who can browse the drive and who can manage folders and drive entries.
Media Files — who can download and upload file content. Listing a file in EnderDrive and downloading or uploading its bytes are separate permissions, so a working role needs the right combination from both groups.
Capability | Required permissions |
Open EnderDrive and browse folders and files | View access to EnderDrive |
Download a file | View access to EnderDrive + View access to Media Files |
Create new folders | Manage access to EnderDrive (full or own-only) |
Upload new files | Manage access to EnderDrive (full or own-only) + Manage access to Media Files |
Edit, move, or delete any folder or file | Full manage access to EnderDrive |
Edit, move, or delete a folder or file you created yourself | Own-only manage access to EnderDrive |
Users with view access to EnderDrive only can browse the folder tree and open folders. To actually download the files they see, they also need view access to Media Files.
Users with own-only manage access to EnderDrive can create new folders, and can rename, move, or delete the items they created. To upload new files, they also need manage access to Media Files. They cannot modify items created by other users.
Folder Structure
EnderDrive is organized as a tree of folders. The root is the top of the tree. Files always live inside a folder — you cannot place files directly at the root, only folders. Folders can be nested as deeply as you need.
In the folder tree on the left, click a folder to open it. Folders that contain subfolders can be expanded and collapsed.
Creating a Folder
The New folder action always creates a folder inside the folder you are currently viewing (or at the root, if you are at the top of EnderDrive). To create a subfolder somewhere else, open that folder first.
You can trigger it in two ways:
Click New above the folder tree and choose New folder.
From the dropdown next to the current folder's name in the breadcrumb, choose New folder.
Enter a name in the Folder name dialog and confirm. The folder appears in the tree immediately.
Renaming, Moving, and Deleting Folders
The dropdown for managing a folder is attached to the current folder's name in the breadcrumb — the last item, not the parent folders on the way to it. To rename, move, or delete a different folder, navigate into it first.
From that dropdown, choose:
Rename — update the folder name in place.
Move — open a folder picker and choose a new parent folder. A folder can be moved into another folder or back to the root. You cannot move a folder into itself or into one of its own children.
Delete — remove the folder and everything inside it. EnderDrive asks for confirmation because the action also deletes every file and subfolder it contains.
If you delete the folder you are currently viewing, EnderDrive automatically takes you back to its parent (or to the root).
Uploading Files
To upload files, open a folder and either click New then File upload, or use the current folder's breadcrumb dropdown and choose File upload. A dialog opens with a drop zone.
You can:
Drag and drop one or more files onto the drop zone.
Click the drop zone to browse for files on your computer.
Files outside the supported list are filtered out automatically. Supported file types are:
Documents —
doc,docx,txt,pdf,ppt,pptx,html,xls,xlsx,csvMedia —
mp3,wav,opus,m4a,mp4Images —
jpg,jpeg,png,gif,svg
Selected files appear in a list under the drop zone. You can remove individual files from the list before uploading. Click Upload to send everything to EnderDrive. If one file fails (for example, the server rejects it), the rest of the upload continues and you receive a notification for the file that failed.
File List
Inside a folder, files and subfolders appear in a table with the following columns:
An icon that reflects the file type.
Name — click a folder name to open it. File names are not clickable; use the actions menu instead.
Size — only shown for files.
Created at — when the file was uploaded.
Actions — a dropdown menu for files.
A small Private file chip appears next to certain file names. See Private files for what that means.
Sorting Folders and Files
The Name, Size, and Created at column headers are sortable. Click a header to sort by that column; click again to toggle between ascending and descending. The default sort is Name ascending.
Folders are always grouped above files, regardless of the sort you pick. The chosen column orders items within each group — folders are sorted against other folders, and files against other files. Folders and files never interleave.
Each column sorts as follows:
Name — case-insensitive sort that handles numbers naturally, so
file 2comes beforefile 10.Size — files are sorted by their actual byte size, even though the column shows a friendly value like
1.2 MB. Folders have no size and are ordered alongside each other by name.Created at — items are ordered by the underlying timestamp, even though the column shows a formatted date.
When two items match on the chosen column (for example, two files of the same size), they fall back to a name-based ordering so the list stays stable.
Working With a File
Open the actions menu (the three dots) next to a file to choose:
Download — save the file to your computer with its original name.
Share — open a dialog with a copyable share link (see below).
Edit — rename the file.
Move — open a folder picker and choose a different folder. Files always have to live in a folder; you cannot move a file to the root.
Delete — remove the file. EnderDrive asks you to confirm before deleting.
Edit, move, and delete are subject to your role's permissions. With own-only manage access, these actions only work on files you uploaded yourself.
Sharing a File
The Share action opens a dialog with a direct download link to the file. Click the copy icon next to the link to copy it to your clipboard.
The share link points to a download page inside Ender Turing — the recipient must have access to your Ender Turing instance and the permission to download files to use it. EnderDrive does not generate public, unauthenticated links.
Private Files
Some files in EnderDrive are marked as private. They appear with a Private file chip next to the name.
A private file is visible only to its owner. Other users — even users with full manage access to EnderDrive — do not see the file in the folder listing.
Private files are typically created by Ender Turing on your behalf — for example, on-demand report exports are written to a Reports folder in EnderDrive as private files belonging to the user who requested them, and a notification points back to the file. EnderDrive does not provide a UI control to mark a file as private after upload.
Using EnderDrive Files Elsewhere
EnderDrive is the file library for several other parts of Ender Turing. Only files you can see in EnderDrive (according to your permissions, and excluding other users' private files) are available to pick, and each picker can also restrict the list to certain file types:
Limits and Caveats
Files at the very top of EnderDrive are not supported — every file must be inside a folder. Create a folder first if the root is empty.
File-type filtering is enforced in the browser when you upload. Unsupported types are silently dropped from the upload list.
Deleting a folder also deletes everything inside it. There is no undo, so use the action with care.
Share links do not bypass authentication — the recipient still needs an Ender Turing account with download permission.
