RStudio Cloud | Reusing a Workspace | Instructor View
One approach to reusing a space is to remove the current cohort of students from the space, and reuse the same space with the next cohort. If you are an Admin of a space, you can remove any member from that space. Go to the Members area of the space. For the member you would like to remove, press the Delete icon. You will be prompted to confirm that you would like to remove them from the space, and to choose whether to leave their projects behind in the space, or move them to their personal space. You can also remove members programatically via the Cloud API using the rscloud package. Another option is to create a new space from your current course space using the Copy Space action. If you'd like to re-use materials from a space, e.g. to teach a new cohort of students, use the Copy Space command. All projects shared with everyone in the original space will be copied over to the new space. Members of the original space are not copied over - you will be the only initial member of the new space. ABOUT RSTUDIO CLOUD: RStudio Cloud is a lightweight, cloud-based solution that allows anyone to do, share, teach and learn data science online. Analyze your data using the RStudio IDE, directly from your browser. Share projects with your team, class, workshop or the world. Teach data science with R to your students or colleagues. Learn data science in an instructor-led environment or with interactive tutorials. There is nothing to configure and no dedicated hardware, installation or annual purchase contract required. Individual users, instructors and students only need a browser to do, share, teach and learn data science. We will always offer a free plan for casual, individual use, and we now offer paid premium plans for professionals, instructors, researchers, and organizations. RSTUDIO CLOUD RESOURCES: RStudio Cloud https://rstudio.cloud RStudio Cloud Pricing plans https://rstudio.cloud/plans/instructor RStudio Cloud guide https://rstudio.cloud/learn/guide {rscloud} https://github.com/rstudio/rscloud VIDEO CREDITS: Monitor icon made by xnimrodx from flaticon.com Cloud icon made by Freepik from flaticon.com Tiny Putty Music from Blue Dot Sessions: https://app.sessions.blue/browse/track/52046 ### ABOUT RSTUDIO: RStudio’s mission is to create free and open-source software for data science, scientific research, and technical communication to enhance the production and consumption of knowledge by everyone, regardless of economic means, and to facilitate collaboration and reproducible research, both of which are critical to the integrity and efficacy of work across industries. RStudio also produces RStudio Team, a modular platform of commercial software products that give organizations the confidence to adopt R, Python and other open-source data science software at scale, along with online services to make it easier to learn and use them over the web. Together, RStudio’s open-source software and commercial software form a virtuous cycle: the adoption of open-source data science software at scale in organizations creates demand for RStudio’s commercial software; and the revenue from commercial software, in turn, enables deeper investment in the open-source software that benefits everyone. Check out www.rstudio.com Follow us on Twitter: https://twitter.com/rstudio Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/rstudiopbc/ And LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/rstudio-pbc/
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It's not uncommon for us to teach the same course, but maybe with a few slight modifications. Rather than creating the same course multiple times, we can actually reuse our RStudio Cloud workspace using one of two methods. We can remove all of our learners once the course is completed and reuse the workspace, or we can copy the workspace for a new cohort of learners.
Removing learners from a workspace
To reuse our existing workspace by removing learners, we can go to the Members tab, located at the top of our workspace. From here, we can navigate to a specific member and click the Delete icon here. We can repeat this for any and all members in our workspace. However, if we'd like to remove large numbers of learners, we'll need to use the RSCloud package.
It's also important to note that only admins can remove learners. This means that if you'd like any of your co-instructors or teaching assistants to help remove members from the shared workspace, they'll need to have their membership role switched to Administrator.
Copying a workspace
Rather than remove learners, we can copy our workspace. Copying our workspace allows us to take all of the existing shared files to a new workspace where we will be the only member. Just note that any private files in our workspace will not be copied over.
