‣ RStudio experience rstudio.com/pricing/academic-pricing ✓ Free licensing for teaching with RStudio’s academic pricing ✓ Çetinkaya-Rundel, Mine, and Rundel, Colin. "Infrastructure and tools for teaching computing throughout the statistical curriculum." The American Statistician (2018).
+ ‣ Students land directly in a project upon login
‣ Great for sharing code in general, e.g. collaboration, reproducible examples (reprexes), etc. - ‣ Students need to remember to make a permanent copy of the project
‣ You can't keep track which students started their assignment
‣ You need to be granted permission to peek into student projects ‣ Permanent projects count towards students’ free hours
‣ Students control permissions + / - Sharing an RStudio Cloud project
instructor view RStudio Cloud role permission course role Admin Manage users, view, edit and manage all projects
Instructor Moderator View, edit and manage all projects TA Contributor Create, edit and manage their own projects Student Viewer View projects shared with everyone Auditor, Guest
‣ Assignments, which remove the need to remind students to make a copy of the project before starting work
‣ Ability to peek into students’ projects - ‣ Students land in the workspace, may need instructions for next steps (e.g., start the assignment titled Getting started) ‣ Student work counts towards (instructor/institution) workspace hours
‣ Instructor controls permissions + / - Inviting to an RStudio Cloud workspace