topic Re: What would be the best plan for independent course creator? in Data Engineering

What would be the best plan for independent course creator?

Lizhi_Dong — Mon, 23 Jan 2023 00:34:32 GMT

Hi folks! I want to use databrick community edition as the platform to teach online courses. As you may know, for community edition, you need to create a new cluster when the old one terminates. I found out however tables created from the old cluster would disappear as well, so I have to re-create tables every time I start the cluster.

Question: does anyone know if there is a plan good for online teaching? Ideally every student will have his/her own account, from which they can perform analysis. The data won't be big, but it's important the tables stay static.

I look forward to your advice

Re: What would be the best plan for independent course creator?

Anonymous — Mon, 23 Jan 2023 07:33:18 GMT

Hi @Lizhi Dong

Thank you for reaching out, and we’re sorry to hear about this log-in issue!

We have this Community Edition login troubleshooting post on Community. Please take a look, and follow the troubleshooting steps.

If the steps do not resolve the log-in issue, there is appropriate contact information on the post for further assistance.

Re: What would be the best plan for independent course creator?

Hubert-Dudek — Mon, 23 Jan 2023 13:20:06 GMT

You can create a notebook for students which recreates everything, like doing the installation of tables etc., before every exercise.

Re: What would be the best plan for independent course creator?

Lizhi_Dong — Mon, 23 Jan 2023 14:29:16 GMT

Thanks, @Vidula Khanna , I started my question there.

Re: What would be the best plan for independent course creator?

Lizhi_Dong — Mon, 23 Jan 2023 14:36:00 GMT

Hi @Hubert Dudek , I've 10+ modules with over 100+ practice files. It will be too much for students to run every time they re-start the cluster.