University class

Lightning Studios allows professors or teachers to focus on delivering core course content instead of hours helping students set up and troubleshoot local environments.

Advantages

Studios offer various advantages for university courses.

Zero setup

Studios are already set up with everything students need. For custom requirements for advanced classes, set up templates that students can duplicate.

Full control

Studios provide full control to Students, professors or teaching assistants to modify Studio environments as needed for specialized uses.

Share templates

Share homework, exams, or starting templates that are fully reproducible out of the box by publishing Studio templates to the private gallery.

Live pair coding

Help students debug remotely via live sessions.

Setup new classroom

Use this section to set up a new classroom.

Create an organization

First, create a "Classroom" organization for your class, such as "ML 101".

Invite students

Invite all students to the organization as members. Each student will automatically get their own teamspace.

See all member permissions here.

Invite staff

Invite staff as admins. Admins have full control of the organization.

See all admin permissions here.

Publish homework

Create a Studio per homework assignment and publish it to the classroom templates.

Publish assignments

Create one Studio per assignment and publish it to the classroom templates at the right time. If you must keep assignments private, create the assignment in the teamspace and don't publish it until it's time.

Organize work

This section discusses ways of organizing different work in a classroom.

Set up lectures

Create a new teamspace titled "Lectures," where you develop Studios for your class, such as "01 Intro to ML," "02 Coding a Neural Network," etc. Each Studio will remain private to other members of this organization until you decide to make it visible to your students.

If you publish a new Studio containing your lecture code, students in the "ML 101" organization will be able to view and duplicate the Studio to experiment with it.

Homework assignments

Create a new teamspace called "Homework Assignments" to develop the starter code for your homework assignments.

Similar to sharing lectures, you can publish assignments to the organization for students to duplicate into their own Teamspace. After completing an assignment, students can invite you or your teaching assistants to their Teamspace and share their homework solution with you.

Class projects

Collaborative class projects are a great way to learn. If you plan to have students work together in groups, we recommend creating a separate Teamspace for each student group (for example, "Team 1" or "Team 2") and inviting the student members to their respective groups.

Inside each group's Teamspace, students can create their own Studios and collaborate live using the "Share" function.

To allocate credit points for students to work on their class projects, assign a budget to each teamspace.

After the class

Once a class is over, you might want to follow these steps.

Publish group projects

Encourage students to open source and share their work by publishing their finished Studios. This will build their resumes, boost their portfolio and contribute back to open source AI.

Administrative tasks

Once a class ends, we recommend to move credits out of teamspaces and into the main organization again.

Get in touch if you need additional features or have more questions.