Taking and uploading a photo

Teachers often set assignment activities that ask for a photo of pupils work to be uploaded. In this post, we'll run through the steps of taking and uploading a photo, both from your computer and from a smart phone or tablet.

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Taking a photo and uploading from a computer

To take a photo with the camera on your computer...

• Open the camera app on your computer
• Hold the work in front of your computer's camera
• Take a photo

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• Open the camera app's photos folder
• Note the location of the new photo file

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• From the activity Your answer pane click Choose file. The computer's file explorer window is displayed
• Navigate to the camera app's photos folder
• Select the photo file to upload
• Click Open

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The photo will be uploaded for the teacher to review.

Taking a photo and uploading from a phone or tablet

Pupils can also take a photo with a phone or tablet and upload it as a response to a file-upload assignment activity directly from the phone or tablet. 

• From the activity Your answer pane click Choose file. Phones or tablets typically then show options to take or select a photo.
• To take a photo...
• Select the camera option
• Hold the work in front of the camera
• Take a photo

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• To select an existing photo... 
• Use the phone/tablet's file explorer to navigate to the photo
• Select the photo to upload

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The photo will be uploaded for the teacher to review.

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