handin
Many courses require you to submit your work to assignment folders on UM Learn.
Some computer science courses will require you to submit your work
using a tool called handin that can be run on any computer
managed by the Department of Computer Science at the U of M, for
example, all computers in Aviary. You’re only required to use
handin if your course instructor tells you to use
handin.
Handing in work with handin is straightforward and you
need to know a few things:
The course number is always the numeric part of the course name in
COMP courses (e.g., COMP 1010 is 1010).
The name of the assignment or work you’re turning in is something
that your instructor sets up and will tell you, but is commonly
aX for assignments, where X is the assignment number (e.g.,
a1).
The folder containing your work is something you made with
mkdir or by copying your work to the remote computer.
To start, open your terminal, then connect to Aviary. Once you’re
connected to a bird machine in Aviary, find the directory that you want
to submit and use the handin command to turn in your
work.
I want to turn in my COMP 2150 assignment. My instructor has told me
that the name of the assignment for handin is
assignment1. I have put my work into a folder named
comp2150-a1. To hand in my work, I would run
handin:
handin 2150 assignment1 comp2150-a1When I run this, handin provides me with a report
telling me when the work was submitted:
handin: Time Stamp: Thu Jul 7 15:16:44 2022
Submitter: fbristow@cormorant.cs.umanitoba.ca
Total bytes copied to handin file was: 121
Handin was successful.