can keep disk usage by departments in check. Using an appropriate template definition
that you put into place can prevent rouge rights assignments targeted outside of the scope
of the working groups for increased security.
Be sure to see the section on
Template Processing
for a full account of the possibilities
that exist with automated workgroup storage.
Collaborative Storage in Education
In an educational environment, the student database can be used as a tool to drive the
creation and automatic membership/owner management of classes. File System Factory™
adapts to this environment where students would be defined as
members
of the group and
teachers/instructors would be defined as
owners
of the group.
K-12 Deployment
File System Factory™ is geared towards rapid deployment in a K-12 environment.
Besides giving a fast and elegant solution to giving personal disk space to all users, File
System Factory™ can also create and manage disk space for all classes in every school in
the district.
As a district or school network administrator, you have the opportunity to revolutionize
collaborative networking in your district by providing automatically managed storage for
every section of every course at your school or district by linking NDS to your student
database.
Using templates, you can customize the storage that is built for each class along grade or
school boundaries. You can provide a web presence for all classes as well as a per class
location for teachers to communicate with parents via the web. Create a “virtual desk” for
each student in the class inside the disk space. These are just a few of the possibilities.
You are limited only by your imagination in this area.
If you skipped the section above on
Collaborative Storage in Business
, be sure to review
that section to see how File System Factory™ can meet the collaborative storage needs of
staff working groups in local schools and district offices.
Be sure to see the section on
Template Processing
for a full account of the possibilities
that exist with automated storage for K-12 classes.
Higher Education Deployment
File System Factory™ is also specially geared towards deployment in a higher education
environment. The methodologies used in File System Factory™ for delivering managed
collaborative storage on a large scale stem from tried and true methodologies used for
years in a large higher education Novell environment.
As a higher education network administrator, you have the opportunity to revolutionize
collaborative networking on your campus by providing automatically managed storage for
every section of every course at your school or University by linking NDS to your student
database.
Using templates, you can design file systems where students can securely submit
assignments electronically with appropriate timestamps and where instructors can grade
and return assignments. Because the disk space management is keying off of NDS
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