The Distributed Instance

The distributed instance is a special instance that exists in every space. It accumulates distributions for the space. The distributed instance is particularly useful in education, as you can spawn new student instances from it.

The distributed instance has several special properties that distinguish it from regular instances.

Changing the Content of the Distributed Instance

The distributed instance has special rules for accessing and modifying content:

• You can push content to the distributed instance via distribution. You can use this feature to push new files to students or to overwrite existing files (e.g., if you discover a mistake in a teaching material, you can push the same files to the students again to replace them with the latest version).

• You can also delete objects from the distributed instance via the actions menu:

  

  While in the Distributed instance, you can delete objects for all students.

You can also delete files in the distributed instance directly from the Master instance.

Access to the Distributed Instance

All editors of all instances in a space have a viewer role on the distributed instance. Consequently, any editor can distribute to their own instance from the distributed instance of the space.