Exue Service - Uploading and Downloading

Exue's "Spoken English" community also provides uploading and downloading service. It was mentioned previously that one way for users to share information is through attachments. When users post message they can attach various types/formats of files including text, audio, video, graphic, and software, actually any type/format of files. Most of attachments are learning materials which are usually officially published and either have an electronic version or digitalized by users. Only a few of them are really created by users themselves in a strict sense. The uploaded materials have been divided by the administration team into different levels with each level having different access restriction. But the mechanism of how to level them is not clear or transparent. More actively users participate in the community activities (will address how the community determine activeness of participation later), more levels they can access. There is a downloading center for users to download available information. It is actually an aggregator to hold all posting with attachments – the links to the postings which have attachments. Users can also locate these postings on the general discussion board themselves but it requires more efforts.