SPASH Network Drives Explained

When you logon to a computer at school, you are logging onto the school network and have access to SPASH network drives. This is where students and teachers can save and share files and access software. The drives are backed up regularly. Each has a different level of access for teachers and students so each has a different purpose.

Drive

Description and Use

Teachers save files here for students to access. . This is a drive that only you access. Every student and teacher has one.

Who Can Read (Open) Files?

Students and Teachers

Who Can Write (Save)/Delete Files?

Teachers

Q: H: R:

The owner Students and Teachers (Students can only see/delete the work they submit)

The owner Students and Teachers (Students can only see/delete the work they submit)

Dropbox: Teachers create folders for students to submit work.

S:

Student Shared: All students and teachers can save and delete files on this drive. Its best use is for quickly sharing files especially during group projects. It is not a place to keep master copies of any files because access is open.

Students and Teachers

Students and Teachers

P:

Staff Shared: This is a place for staff to share files. Students do not have access to this drive.

Teachers

Teachers

X:

When we login to a computer at school, we have access to additional software that is not installed on our laptops or computers. This drive is for software that runs off of the network.

Students and Teachers

No one