Teaching with Moodle can be done with many of the same techniques and tricks used in traditional face-to-face instruction. Moodle can be used to improve upon face-to-face instruction, sometimes with unexpected results. In this case, Moodle was used to share common course documents across a large number of courses.

One way to accomplish this sharing of files is by using Moodle Site files. This is another one of those areas that most Moodle admins don't even know exist, but, using this feature can save in server space, and increase collaboration.  I often use Site files to create a common document, place that document in Site files, then create a link to that file in a course. Then, I backup and restore that "base" course multiple times so that all courses are using the same file. This will allow me to make changes in that one file and apply those changes to all courses simultaneously.

Note: Site files is an administrator only option. If you want to use this as a non-admin user, you'll need to be really, really, nice to your Moodle administrator. :-)

To access your Site files, you can  go to Front Page> Site files in the Site Administration menu, or go to http://yourdomain.edu/moodle/files/index.php?id=1. This should bring you to a screen similar to the one below (I'm using the Wood Custom Corners theme).

Remember that you can upload several files at one time by uploading a zip archive of your files and then use the Unzip function to decompress the archive once you've uploaded them.

If you run into upload limits while trying to upload your zip file(s), then try FTP'ing your files up to your moodledata folder. All site files are located in the folder: /moodledata/1/.