Excluding Files/Folders

To Students

Files/folders may need to be excluded from students assignments. Such files may be unused resources/logs and other files used when testing the assignment prior to publishing.

This can be handled by using .assignmentignore or .unitignore file in the source project and when published to a course, these files/folders will not be available to the students.

Enter on a new line the file/folders to be excluded defining them relative to the location of the .assignmentignore or .unitignore file and defining folders with /

For example if the .assignmentignore or .unitignore file is located in the project workspace and you wish to exclude

• testing & node_modules folder

• the file checkscore.js in the views folder

• the files app.js and README.md

the .assignmentignore or .unitignore file will be

/testing
/node_modules
/views/checkscore.js
app.js
README.md

To collaborating teachers

When collaborating with other teachers in Codio, an authorassignmentignore or .authorunitignore file can be used in the same way as the .assignmentignore or .unitignore file above. When a collaborating teacher in the course accesses the published assignment in edit mode, the files/folders included in the file will not be available to them.

If using Desktop App

See Desktop App where .codioignore file is used in the same manner.