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Download Data from Your Class Account

If you are using IDAS for a course, the IDAS instance built for your course only lasts for the duration of the semester. At the end of each semester, we routinely deprovision (remove) old course instances in order to prepare resources for a new semester. Once we deprovisioned your course instance, all data in your IDAS class account will be deleted. We strongly recommend that you download any data, codes, and files from your IDAS class account to your computer before your course instance is deprovisioned.

We deprovision all course instances on IDAS the week after grades are due. To determine when grades are due, please see these Grading Schedules from the Office of the Registrar. 



Follow the steps below to download data from your IDAS class account to your computer:

1. Log in to the IDAS instance for your course.

2. Start a Terminal session.

  • If your course uses Jupyter Notebook, click "New" in the upper right section of the Jupyter Hub tree page, then choose "Terminal:

 

  • If your course uses RStudio, click on the "Terminal" tab, which is next to the "Console" tab in RStudio:

3. Compress all files and directories in your home directory by running the following commands in Terminal. This can take a few minutes, especially if you have a lot of files in your IDAS home directory.

# make sure you are in your IDAS home directory
cd ~

# compress all files and directories in your home directory
zip -r backup.zip *
  • In the "zip" command, the "-r" option means including all sub-directories and * means everything in the current directory.
  • For more information about the "zip" command, please type in Terminal: "zip --help"

4. After the commands finish running in Terminal, a file called "backup.zip" will be available in your IDAS home directory.

  • If your course uses Jupyter Notebook, you can find the "backup.zip" file in your Jupyter Hub tree page, like in this partial screenshot:

  • If your course uses RStudio, you can find the "backup.zip" file in the "Files" tab in RStudio, like in this partial screenshot:

5. Download this file to your computer. Then you can use a free software such as 7-zip to extract the files in backup.zip to a location on your computer.

Transition from Class Account to Research Account

If you want to continue using IDAS after your course ends, please request a free individual IDAS research account. Research accounts are available to current UI faculty, staff, and students who are participating in research projects. Please see the section "Request an IDAS Account for Research Use" in this article for more information.

Note that files in your class account will not transfer to your research account. Please download any data, codes, and files from your class account to your computer before your course instance is deprovisioned.



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