About course materials in iTunes U for web
iTunes U displays materials you add to the current course in the Materials pane. You add materials to a course when you create an assignment and attach your favorite teaching resources (for example, documents, worksheets, web links, photos, and videos) to the assignment. When you attach a variety of learning materials, there are no limits to how creative you can make your assignments and, in turn, how creative your students can be when handing in homework projects for those assignments.
When creating a course, if you want a specific material hidden from your students until you reach the associated section of your course (for example, an online quiz), add the material to your My Materials Library instead of the course Materials pane. Later, when you reach the section of your course and create the post and assignment, you can attach the relevant material from your My Materials Library, and iTunes U displays it in your student’s course Materials pane. Materials you add to a course Materials pane are immediately visible to your students, but materials you add to your My Materials Library are only visible to you until you attach the material to a specific course.
To access the Materials pane, click the Materials cell in the dashboard (or click a course name in the dashboard, then click Materials 
). Use the Materials pane to add new materials, filter materials by media type, and edit or remove existing materials. When you view the Materials pane for a course, you see only materials added and used within the currently selected course. When you view My Materials Library, you see all your materials, whether added from one of your courses or from My Materials Library.
Use this | To |
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Search field | Locate materials within a specific course, by name. |
Materials | All pane | View all materials for the current course, including the material name and author. iTunes U displays materials in reverse chronological order by upload date. Click Note: If you added an iTunes Store material, you can use the View iTunes Preview link in the material pop-up pane to view and verify the material. |
Materials | media type pane | View materials by selected media type for the current course, including the material name and author. iTunes U displays materials in reverse chronological order by upload date. Click Note: If you added an iTunes Store material, you can use the View iTunes Preview link in the material pop-up pane to view and verify the material. |
 | View a list of your course’s subscribed feeds. iTunes U displays a Feed Materials icon for any material added automatically from a feed. Click Note: If you added an iTunes Store material, you can use the View iTunes Preview link in the material pop-up pane to view and verify the material. |
 | Add a new material to the current course. When you add a new material to a course, iTunes U also adds the material to your My Materials Library. Note: Materials you add to a course as a contributor are not added to your My Materials list. |
 | Reorder materials in the course Materials pane. An insertion bar appears to indicate where you can drop the selection. |
 | View and edit a material. |
 | Download a material to your Downloads folder. |
to remove the material.Note: To use all the materials from an existing course in a new course, Apple recommends you duplicate the existing course, then edit the course details. When duplicating a course, iTunes U creates a new course using the info pages, posts, and materials from the original course.