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The shared folder can be used as a simple way for sharing files from the course staff to students on the hub. The folder is a directory of which contents every user on the hub can see and read from, but only admin users and members of the instructor group can write to. The only way students can make changes to the files under the shared folder is to make personal copies of the files into their own home directories. Students are not able to write to files in the shared folder directly.
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