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Create a Workspace

In this tutorial, we will create a Workspace Configuration for your course. A Workspace Configuration is a blueprint used to create your student's Workspaces.

Your institution will need a Grader Than Workspace license.

Before you can work with Grader Than Workspaces, your institution will need a Grader Than Workspace license agreement. If you'd like trail access, please contact us.

You need to create a course before beginning this tutorial.

Before beginning with Grader Than Workspaces, you need to create a course.

Let's begin:

  1. To view your course's Workspace Settings Page, open the Courses page by clicking the Courses course course button in the activity bar, on the left side of the screen.
  2. On the Courses page, click the blue Open button that corresponds to the course you'd like to open.
  3. Now that the Courses page is open, in the bar at the top of the screen, click the tab labeled Workspace.
  4. Now that the Workspace view is open, you will see a form used to create a new Grader Than Workspace.

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This is where you create a Workspace Configuration.

  • Use the field labeled Configuration Name to give your Workspace a name, so that you can use it again for another course.

  • Select from one of our pre-configured operating system images in the Operating System menu. Our programming based OS images comes with everything you need to start coding out-of-the-box (depending on your school's license, you may have different OS options)

  • Click the blue button labeled Create a new Configuration. Now you're done!

Open your Workspace

1) To view your course's workspace, open the Courses page by clicking the Courses course course button in the activity bar, on the left side of the screen.

2) On the Courses page, click the blue Open button that corresponds to the course you'd like to open.

3) Now that the Courses page is open, in the upper right corner of the main window you will see the buttons displayed below.

The Workspace buttons aren't there

If you do not see the workspace buttons, it may mean one of the following situations:

1) You have not assigned a Workspace Configuration for the course. Learn how to create a Workspace Configuration for more information.

2) Your institution has not invested in Grader Than Workspace licenses. If you'd like access to a trial, please contact us.

Grader Than Workspaces open buttons

This buttons located in the upper left corner of the Course page open the Grader Than Workspace IDE or Desktop.

  • ide icon course IDE - This opens the Grader Than IDE, this is a complete browser IDE built off of VS Code. You will most likely be working in the Grader Than IDE.

  • desktop icon course Desktop - This opens the desktop view of the Grader Than Workspace. From here, you will be able to work with the workspace, much like your local computer.

Once you've selected an option, you may need to wait 30-40 seconds for the Workspace to start up, and then you are ready to go! Dive deeper into your Workspace configuration here

More Settings

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This is where you can modify more workspace settings prior to creation.

By clicking on the button labeled More Settings in the configuration creation menu (found above the blue creation button), you will reveal additional configuration settings you can access.

  • Dependencies - These are shell scripts used to install or start software your Workspace depends upon.

  • Description - Give your Workspace a description so that your colleagues may understand its purpose.

  • Desktop/IDE - Uncheck these boxes if you'd like to disable access to either of these features.