Files from an SSH to a project

Hello all!

I'm currently a first year student studying computer science so everything is still new to me, and my terminology might not be up to scratch so apologies in advance but here's my question.

All my files I work with in class are on a server and I can access them through the ssh session in intellij which is great but what i would like to do is have an easy way of transferring the files on the server into a intellij project so i can use all the fantastic features of the ide! Its much faster than using the vim i have to use in class. I have also worked out a way to upload/download my files from the server using winscp but when i try to open the folders in intellij it obviously doesn't work because it's not configured correctly as a project.

Any help at all on the issue would be greatly appreciated!

Thanks in advance, Nick.