Find your course materials

Outcome You locate the files, datasets, and applications your instructor has provided for the course.

Before you start

• You have accepted your course invitation.

• You know the course name.

Course materials are distributed to your personal Instance within the course space. Once distributed, they appear inside your applications as regular files in the Workspace area.

Open your personal instance

1

Navigate to the Dashboard.

2

On the sidebar select Spaces to open the Spaces list, or see Recent Spaces section at the bottom of the Dashboard. Click Filters and toggle on Courses.

3

Click the name of your course. Nuvolos opens your personal instance automatically.

Courses often include multiple instances. You typically work in your own instance, though shared or instructor-provided materials may exist in other instances.

Access the Distributed instance

Many instructors distribute course-wide materials to a shared space called the Distributed instance (typically with viewer access). To access it:

1

Open the instance selector by clicking on the Instance name on the sidebar.

2

Select Distributed.

3

Open Files.

4

Find the relevant course materials folder.

Find the material

Distributed materials appear in two places:

• In the Files view - click the folder icon on the sidebar. The Workspace area (mounted at /files inside running Applications) is the default view.

• Inside any running application - start an application and look in the /files directory. Same content, accessed from the other side.

If you joined the course recently and do not see any materials yet, check with your instructor. New material is delivered through the distribution mechanism, and it may not have been pushed to your Instance yet.

For the full file navigator reference (uploads, downloads, archives), see Reference › File storage.