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---+ Managing Course Accounts

The course accounts have a number of uses; as a central point of contact for e-mail from students, as a host for the course website, and as the account that stores and tests student submissions for a number of courses.
   
   * ConnectingToCourseAccounts
      * MountingCourseAccountOnCampus
      * MountingCourseAccountFromHome
   * BasicCourseAccountSetup
   * CourseWebpage
   * ProcmailSetup

For courses that make use of submit/Odyssey and RST, see SubmitCourseInformation; particularly, PreparingSubmitAssignments.

For courses that make use of Marmoset, see CF.MarmosetCourseConfiguration.

   * [[%ATTACHURL%/HOWTOGUIDE.doc][HOWTOGUIDE.doc]]: How To Guide (Course Account, Tutor tasks)

---++ Account quota

Every account has a limited amount of usable disk space.  This can present difficulties on course accounts, particularly near assignment deadlines; a sudden spike in submissions can make the account hit its quota limit, preventing any further submissions and keeping tests from being run.

The ISG runs a script nightly that will check the quota of select accounts and e-mail any that are over 89% of the maximum.  You can also check the account's quota yourself with the =diskquota= command.

If you need to delete files but aren't sure where the space is being used, try issuing the command =du -s * | sort -nr=.

---++ Modifiable home directory

Add the following alias to your personal =.cshrc= file on the course account; then issue the =h= command if you want to change your HOME directory between =/u/cs<em>XXX</em>/= and =/u/cs<em>XXX</em>/u/<em>userid</em>/=.  This enables more convenient navigation; ie, =cd ~/marking=.

<pre>alias h 'if ($HOME == `absolute /u/$USER`) then \\

            setenv HOME `absolute /u/$USER/u/$REMOTEUSER` \\

         else \\

            setenv HOME `absolute /u/$USER` \\

         endif \\

         cd'</pre>

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Topic revision: r8 - 2011-04-28 - SalinaHajeeyani

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