See exactly who downloaded your shared course files
When you share lesson materials, assessment packs, or research documents with students and staff, knowing those files arrived matters. WeTransfer shows you the download status of every transfer you send, so you can follow up with confidence rather than guessing.
Keep tabs on your transfer's downloaders
Educators and academic administrators often send time-sensitive materials, from course packs and reading lists to grant submissions and faculty reports, where confirmed receipt is part of the job. WeTransfer records download activity on every transfer, and your Transfers panel updates the moment someone collects the files, giving you a clear picture of who has what. For email transfers sent to multiple recipients, each person gets their own tracked status, so if you distributed materials to a whole seminar group, you can see at a glance who has downloaded and who still needs a nudge. When you need a stronger record of access, enabling Access Control before you send requires each downloader to verify their email address first, and you receive a notification every time someone opens the transfer. For sensitive documents like student assessment files or staff contracts, Restricted downloads ties the transfer to a named list of approved addresses so only the right people can get in.
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FAQs
All your questions answered.
Go to your Transfers panel after sending and you will see a download status for each transfer. For email transfers, each recipient has their own individual status, so if you sent course materials to ten students you can see exactly who has collected their copy and who has not. Hovering over a recipient's checkmark shows the exact date and time they downloaded, which is useful for confirming receipt of time-sensitive academic content.
Yes. Before you send, enable Tracked downloads in the transfer settings. Anyone who opens your link will need to verify their email address first, and you receive a notification each time a download occurs. This works well for distributing reading packs or faculty documents where you want a clear record of who accessed the files and when.
Yes. Enabling Restricted downloads before you send ties the transfer to a list of approved email addresses, so only the people you specify can access the files after verifying their identity. This is useful for sharing assessment materials, grade reports, or confidential staff documents where access needs to stay within a defined group.
WeTransfer works with virtually any file type relevant to education, including PDFs, presentation decks, Word documents, spreadsheets, video lectures, audio recordings, images, and ZIP archives. Files are sent without any compression or quality loss, so high-resolution scanned resources, recorded lectures, and design portfolios arrive exactly as you uploaded them.
Yes. When you send by email to multiple recipients, each person is tracked separately in your Transfers panel. You can see which individuals have downloaded and which have not, making it straightforward to send a follow-up to anyone who missed the materials without disturbing the rest of the group. For link-based sharing with a larger cohort, enabling Access Control gives you per-download visibility with email verification.