Yes, they are. Provided a student wants to offer other users some of
his/her study materials (e.g. his/her lecture notes), he/she should use
the following path:
The Information System Student [course] File Vault
The files can consequently
be accessed by all the students enrolled in the course (before the
beginning of teaching period this includes all of those who have
registered for the course). When preparing study materials for the
upcoming term and copying the old ones into it, teachers can include in
them also the files uploaded by the students in the past.
The folders Learning Materials, Assignments, Course-Related
Instructions and File Vault are created the first time a user
enters the tree of the course.