CurryDisk

CurryDisk is like a “Home Directory” for the Curry School. And, like one’s personal Home Directory, it can be accessed from your desk at work or from off-grounds at home or a meeting place with network access.

CurryDisk makes it possible for groups of Curry faculty, staff, and students to share document files in one location. This will eliminate or greatly reduce the need to exchange document files via e-mail attachments. CurryDisk appears to your computer system as another attached disk drive and you can open files and work on them in the same manner you work on files you have on your computer’s hard drive or on an external drive. (Listen to ETO TechMinute on CurryDisk.)

Getting Workspace on CurryDisk

The CurryDisk administrator in the Educational Technologies Office (ETO) will create private folders for faculty or staff who submit a request for workspace on CurryDisk.

• To request workspace, send an e-mail to edtech-support@virginia.edu.

Access rights to these private folder areas are managed through membership in CurryDisk groups. The CurryDisk administrator will also create a group for the faculty or staff member to use to administer access to his/her new workspace folder. The faculty or staff member will then be responsible for maintaining the group’s membership list of users.

How Do I Know My Workspace is Ready?

By submitting an e-mail using the link above, you will create a work order in ETO's work order system. When the CurryDisk administrator has created your workspace and group, you will hear from someone in ETO with the information you need to access your new workspace and administer the group assigned to it.

What Do I Do When My Workspace is Ready?

Once your workspace is ready to access, follow the step-by-step guides to connect to CurryDisk:

1. Windows PC: Mapping a Drive to CurryDisk
2. Macintosh: Connecting to Server
3. You can also connect via the Web

Getting Access to CurryDisk

In order to have access to CurryDisk, a user must have a UVa computing ID. All Curry faculty and staff members have access to the "public" (Curry only) folders on CurryDisk. Students will be given access with the approval of a faculty member with whom they are working on a project.

How Do I Give my Group Members Access to the Project Folder?

• Group Management for Project Access to CurryDisk