Common workflows

Common Workflows is the canonical home for procedures every Nuvolos role performs the same way - accepting an invitation, starting and stopping applications, working with files, taking and restoring snapshots, distributing content, and inviting users. The role-specific guides (Instructors, Students, Researchers) link here whenever they touch one of these shared procedures, rather than duplicating the steps.

Each page in this section follows the same shape: a single-line Outcome describing what you will have done, a Before you start block with prerequisites, the steps themselves, and (where useful) role-specific notes at the bottom for the cases where the procedure has slightly different consequences depending on your role.

The pages in this section:

• Accepting an invitation - joining Nuvolos for the first time, choosing your identity provider, troubleshooting the wrong-email case.

• Starting an Application - launching an application from the Dashboard or from your instance.

• Stopping an Application - the four ways to stop a running application.

• Working with files - uploading files, cloning Git repositories, downloading from URLs, mounting external storage.

• Snapshots - Overview, Create, Restore, Delete - the snapshot lifecycle.

• Requesting roles - submitting a role request when you can see content but cannot interact with it.

• Distribution - the staging-and-distribute click-flow used to push files, tables, or applications between instances.

• Inviting users - the invitation click-flow used by Space Administrators.

If you arrived from a role-specific guide, follow the procedure here and return to your role document for the role-specific application. If you arrived directly, the procedures stand alone - you do not need to read in any particular order.

Where to go next

• For role-specific applications of these procedures, see How-to › For Instructors, How-to › For Students, or How-to › For Researchers.

• For the conceptual model behind Instances, snapshots, distribution, and roles, see Concepts.

• For the technical reference on Applications, storage, data storage, and configuration, see Reference.

• For administrative procedures (organisation and Space management, resource monitoring), see Administration.