[ARCHIVED] How to create a datastore for a series of courses

[julia4]

We're building a long-form Data Science programme of several modules (each its own course in Canvas). We want to move away from using GitHub to store all the datasets and notebooks used throughout the programme in one central place in Canvas.

One idea would be to have a separate course where learners are enrolled throughout the programme which hosts all the datasets used for all modules, as well as other dummy datasets for learners to practice with and potentially other programme-level resources.

I'm wondering if anyone has any ideas of how this could be structured or if anyone has done something like this in the past?

[raj_veeravalli]

We use Google Drive or One Drive for file storage and linking. It seems there are other options if you use jupyter notebooks or similar. See link below:

https://community.canvaslms.com/thread/15777-is-it-possible-to-embed-interactive-jupyter-python-note... 

[Shar]

Hi Julia Young,

Something similar came up a few months ago: How to incorporate large amounts of Supplemental Content/Reference Materials? 

Just like you say have the students separately enrolled into the one central course and link to it from all other courses. One thing to keep in mind is about version control and who will be maintaining those datasets. In otherwords, be careful if you have too many teacher users who can overwrite existing information or change navigation components by accident.

Cheers - Shar