Instructors: Setting Up a Shared Course Site

In addition to, or as an alternative to the use of mystata, instructors may wish to set up a shared course site that has programs that will be used in the class.  The mystata.do or profile.do files could be modified to include a command that looks something like the following:

sysdir set SITE J:\nd.edu\userx\mynetid\statsclass

Stata would then search this directory when trying to find the programs it is asked to execute.  The instructor would need to make sure that he or she had the right directory name for other users to access it and that users had read (not write) access to the directory (for example, for a particular professor, userx might be user7, and mynetid would be the professor's network id.)