What would be the best plan for independent course creator?

[Lizhi_Dong]

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

[Anonymous]

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. 

[Lizhi_Dong]

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

[Hubert-Dudek]

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

[Lizhi_Dong]

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.