Submit

For Students

The submit tool allows students to submit ZIP and TAR.GZ files via the submit web interface. This means you need to compress your files into one or the either, even if you only have one file. The submit tool is not compatible with PDF, DOC, DOCX, or ODT files, you will need to turn them into a ZIP or TAR.GZ in order to submit.

For Instructors

To get a submission space for a class, e-mail operator [at] cs.umn.edu with information about the class name and section names. After operator has created your space, you can find it under /project/submit/current/(classname)/. Homework names will be entered into hwnames.txt in that directory, one per line, with the characters a-z,A-Z and _. Homework names must be entered before students can submit files. Be careful to leave the permissions on hwnames.txt as they are. Each section will also have a directory here. Under each section's directory is a directory for each user with submissions. The submissions are kept in separate directories that correspond to names in hwnames.txt. Under a users directory there will also be a log file called 'log' with the date the submission was submitted.

Some TAs have requested write permission to the submit directories so they can compile code, edit student submissions, etc. This is not permitted. Allowing TAs to edit code would make it difficult to ensure that project submissions are received reliably, and would make debugging submit problems more difficult. Because accurate and reliable submission acceptance is our top priority, submission directories have been made read-only.

If you want to make changes to submitted work, we recommend waiting until all submissions have been received, and then copying the entire directory to another file system where you have write permissions. If you need disk space for this purpose, you can request temporary disk space by contacting operator [at] cs.umn.edu .