Instructor Volumes

QUESTION: What is an Instructor Volume and how can I use it?

ANSWER: An Instructor Volume (IV) is network disk space, provided by Information Technology (IT), where data files, assignments, and programs may be stored by an instructor for students to access. Students can attach their network session to an Instructor Volumes and copy or read the data files or run programs.

An instructor volume can also be given a web address, example:

http://asu.edu/courses/uni294

To request an Instructor Volume do the following:

1. Request the IV

NOTE: If you wish to give multiple people access to your IV, please include their ASURITE usernames in the "Comments" area.

http://www.asu.edu/it/tempe/classrooms/resources/iv/

2. When the folder is set up, you receive email confirmation that your IV has been created and the location (path) to your new IV. Example:

/afs/asu.edu/class/u/n/i/uni294

If you want others to access your files over the web. you need to have your new IV folder mapped to a web address. You do this by requesting the URL you wish to use for your IV. To do this, fill out a Helpdesk request

http://asu.edu/helpdesk

and provide the necessary information for the systems folks to set up your IV web address - for example:

Please map the following web address    http://www.asu.edu/courses/uni294 to my Instructor Volume at:   /afs/asu.edu/class/u/n/i/uni294

3. When you receive confirmation that this mapping has been completed, your site is live.

4. You may upload files using the

• AFS Manager in EMMA
• Secure FTP ( SFTP )
• Mount the IV as a drive with OpenAFS if you are on campus, or using VPN from a remote location.

5. Access permissions - you may grant others WRITE access to your IV either with

• The ACL AFS Manager in EMMA
• Or Advanced users can SSH into general.asu.edu and and use command line unix to execute ACL commands

If you wish to link to the files in your instructor volumes from your websites or myASU course you would do the following:

1. Upload the file(s) to your instructor volume (example: ivdemo.ppt)
2. Identify the link to your recently uploaded file. This will be your instructor volume web address, a "/", and the name of your file. Example:
   Instructor volume web address: http://asu.edu/courses/uni294
   File name: ivdemo.ppt
   Link (URL): http://asu.edu/courses/uni294/ivdemo.ppt
3. This link can now be used in a web page or a myASU course site.
   • Website - you would create a link using the above URL. The raw HTML code would look like this:
     <A HREF="http://asu.edu/courses/uni294/ivdemo.ppt">Click to view ivdemo.ppt</A>
     
     Click to view ivdemo.ppt
     
     
   • myASU users add a content item into their course and then simply copy and paste the URL (http://asu.edu/courses/uni294/ivdemo.ppt) into that item (example: within the Course Documents area) and the link will be created for you.