How can students and instuctors exchange SAS OnDemand projects so each can run the other's project?

[MPeterJ]

I have a Text Mining class using SAS OnDemand for Academics.

How can my students and I exchange projects so each of  us can check and execute the other's projects for "hands on" demonstrations and evaluations?

What does the sender save their project file, and how, and what and how does the receiver extract, load and run the project in their SAS OnDemand installation?

If you can answer the questions great, but will be happy to get documentations  - thanls - peter j (pjurkat@Stevesns.edu)

[Cynthia_sas]

Hi, Peter:
If you have set up a sponsored class on the SAS OnDemand server, then you should have been allocated a course folder with 3GB of space. This will be the folder from which students can retrieve files, open files, etc that you load into the folder.

Unfortunately, each student's individual home folder is only accessible to them. They would need to save their projects to their local machine (their path will be visible in SAS Studio to their HOME folder -- the path name should be something like /home/u12345678/ where the "u12345678" is their userID on the OnDemand server. This will be the starting path of any subfolders under Files (Home) as the location of their Files (Home) top folder. So if they make a subfolder under Files (Home) called myclass and they have a dataset (class.sas7bdat) under that folder, then the path to that dataset would be /home/u12345678/myclass/class.sas7bdat. But if they save their data and projects under their home folder, they they would need to send their projects to you so you could upload them into the course shared folder - because they would NOT be able to save directly into the class shared folder because the professor is the only one with write access to that folder. We try to make it easy for the sponsoring professors to share data/files with their students. But to avoid a student accidentally deleting a class file, they only have read access to the class shared folder.

Cynthia