The distributed instance
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The distributed instance is a special instance that exists in every . It serves the purpose of accumulating distributions of the space. The distributed instance is particularly useful in the context of education as it is possible to spawn new student instances from the distributed instance.
The distributed instance has a number of special properties that distinguish it from regular instances.
The distributed instance has special content access and modification rules:
It is possible to push content to the distributed instance via distribution. You can use this feature to push new files to the students, or to overwrite existing files (e.g. after discovering a mistake in a teaching material, you can push the same files to the students again, to have them replaced with the latest version)
You can also delete objects from the distributed instance via the actions menu:
You can also directly from the Master instance.
All editors of all instances of a particular space have a viewer on the distributed instance. As a consequence, it is possible for any editor to distribute to their own instance from the distributed instance of the space.