Joining a course
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If you received an invitation link directly from your instructor, you will have to either click on it or navigate to it in your browser. The invite link should look something like this: https://nuvolos.cloud/enroll/class/4963cd4b1355488f35f874c6f9f4116e0e
This link will take you to a sign-up page prompting you to provide your educational institution's e-mail address. Upon successfully providing the email check the invitation message in your email inbox.
When accepting the invitation, we encourage you to proceed with the recommended option. For students affiliated with a swiss higher education institution, this is SWITCH.
In Nuvolos, course participation is by invitation only. To accept an invitation proceed as follows:
Open invitation email.
Click Review Invitation in the invitation email.
Inspect the roles included in the invitation.
If you have never signed up, sign up.
Click accept invitation.
For first-time users, the signing up process might take up to a minute to conclude.
When accepting the invitation, we encourage you to proceed with the recommended option. For students affiliated with a swiss higher education institution, this is SWITCH.
If you choose to sign up with e-mail and password authentication, the SWITCH option will not be available for you anymore.
Nuvolos supports two ways to sign in:
Users affiliated with a Swiss higher education institution, select the SWITCH option.
Otherwise, use the default sign-in option.
If you chose to sign up with e-mail and password authentication, you need to sign in with e-mail and password, and if you chose to sign up via SWITCH, you need to sign in via SWITCH.
Click the tile of your course on the dashboard.
Mind the fact that your context has changed in the breadcrumbs to your personal instance.
Click the file view on the overview of your personal instance.
Navigate to your files view.
Applications can be started from the dashboard directly.
Applications can also be accessed from the application menu of your instance overview.
You can take a snapshot by clicking the Photo camera button once you are in the context of your instance.
Fill out the details. If you don't want to spend energy, you can just create a quick snapshot.
Use the upload and download buttons to get files in and out of Nuvolos. Consult the documentation about all available operations.
