As any Connexions author knows, editing a moderately complex module can be a challenge. One difficulty has been that until now, the only way to get images and files of any sort into a module was to load them one at a time.

Building on his work refactoring our import/export infrastructure to use the PortalTransforms API, Cameron Cooper has created Zip archive export and import. This means you can now "zip up" a folder full of images (or anything else) and import them directly into a module in your workgroup.

Export, similarly, gives you a zip archive with all the contents of your module. Combining the two lets you edit all the parts of your module, including images or other supplementary files, in one go. To give it a try, just login to you Connexions authoring account, checkout or create a module, and take a look at the new "Zip File" entries in the Export and Import select lists.

Future enhancements will include other archive types (tar.gz, rar, etc.) and enhanced support for off-line editing.