Courses

The courses area of the file system is for collaboration with other students, your professor, and perhaps your teaching assistant. Sometimes professors use this space to share resources like site maps, or will create a submission folder for you to drop an assignment into.

Course directories are active only for the length of the course, with a short grace period at the end of each term to remove/archive data before they are deleted. For Fall courses, files are deleted after the first week of January. For Spring Courses, files are deleted after the first week of May.

Course directories are the responsibility of the course instructor. Each faculty member is automatically given a directory for each of the courses they teach, but your instructor will control who has access to files and with which permissions. For example, an instructor would likely make a City Aerial photo read-only or a base site plan read-only to be used as a template. Your instructor might want you to put project assignments into different folders like "Assignment 1 due Oct 15th" (sometimes called a "drop folder" where you can only write to this folder), or put course reading PDF’s in a sub folder listed by subject - these would likely be read-only.

There is a quota of 200Gb per course folder.

On the Courses volume we have "Time Machine" service enabled.

FACULTY MEMBERS NOTE: Faculty should note that course directories are created automatically from the master timetable and the ROSI system. All instructors who are listed in the master timetable will automatically be given full permissions on the course directory. This means that you can create subdirectories and apply permissions as you see fit. Some examples are noted above. Student access lists are pulled from the ROSI system based on a student's current enrolment. A group is also created with the course name. This group name can be used as a email list. For example, if your course name is ARC123, the email would be arc123@daniels.utoronto.ca In this example an email would be sent to all students enrolled in the course ARC123. If you have TAs or other faculty members who you would like to have access to your course directory, you have rights to enable this.

Here is a guide to changing permissions on your course directory. NOTE:  These changes must be done while logged into a Faculty computer (like the sessional office) and cannot be done via FTP.  Change permissions on Course directories step-by-step guide ( .pdf, 877 Kb)