Open Learning

Open Learning gives students in eligible majors and programs a workspace on Datahub and PARASOL (formerly DSMLP) from Winter 2027, for coursework and exploration outside a course workspace or a sponsored project. You are added from your major or program, with nothing to request. Eligible Programs lists the programs.

Who: Students in the programs in Eligible Programs
Opens: Winter 2027
Access: Nothing to request. You are added from your major or program in TSS (formerly TritonLink)
Peak weeks: Lower GPU limits, with coursework served first

Eligible Programs¶

From Winter 2027, students in these programs are members of the Open Learning workspace that Datahub lists as Open Learning - Halıcıoğlu School Affiliates.

Program	Level
Bachelor of Science in Data Science	Undergraduate major
Minor in Data Science	Undergraduate minor
Bachelor of Science in Artificial Intelligence	Undergraduate major
Master of Science in Data Science (MSDS)	Graduate
Master of Data Science Online (MDS)	Graduate
Master of Advanced Studies in Data Science and Engineering (MAS-DSE)	Graduate
Ph.D. in Data Science	Graduate

Other schools can offer Open Learning to their students. If your program is not listed and you would use Open Learning, tell your dean's office.

Membership¶

You are added to Open Learning from your major, minor or graduate program as recorded in TSS (formerly TritonLink). A second major or a minor in an eligible program counts. Open Learning says how soon a change in TSS reaches the workspace, and how long access lasts after graduation.

Warning

When your access ends, the workspace disappears from your account, and so does your Open Learning home directory. Copy out anything you want to keep before you leave an eligible program, or before your account is removed after graduation. See Retrieving Work Before Access Ends.

What Open Learning Is For¶

Work	Where it belongs
Coursework in a course that has its own Datahub workspace	The course workspace. See Using Datahub in a Course
Coursework in a course without its own workspace	Open Learning
Practice, tutorials, and trying out tools outside any course	Open Learning
Independent study, a capstone, or a club, team or personal project with a faculty sponsor	A project workspace. See Projects & Independent Study
Research	Research on PARASOL

Priority in Peak Weeks¶

In peak weeks, weeks 6 to 10 of a quarter and finals week, coursework is served ahead of Open Learning work, and the Open Learning workspace has lower GPU limits than at other times. The limits are lower, not zero. See Peak GPU Demand.

Open Learning does not replace a course's own GPU access. If a course you take will need substantial GPU time in peak weeks, ask the instructor to request GPU access for the course. See Requesting a Course.

Working in Open Learning¶

Open Learning is a workspace, so you reach it the same ways as a course workspace. In Datahub at datahub.ucsd.edu, select Open Learning - Halıcıoğlu School Affiliates. From the login node, name the workspace with -W OLE_HSDSC.

Task	Documented in
Open Jupyter or RStudio in a browser	Datahub in the Browser
Choose the Open Learning workspace at launch	Belonging to Several Workspaces
Connect from a terminal	Connecting over SSH
Name the workspace in a launch command	Naming a Workspace on the Command Line
Install packages	Customizing an Environment
Book or launch a GPU session	Reservations
Find out why a session stopped	What Ends a Session

Files¶

Your Open Learning home directory is separate from your home directory in each course. A file you save in one is not visible from the other. Keep a file you need in both in private/, which appears in every workspace you belong to. See Per-Workspace Home Directories.

GPU Classes and Service Units¶

The Open Learning workspace has access to every GPU class. See GPU Classes. Its GPU quotas and Service Unit budget are not yet published.

Warning

Every GPU session in Open Learning draws on your Service Unit budget in the workspace, whether you booked it or launched on demand. See On-Demand Lease Charges.

Remaining Balance shows how to check what is left.

Support¶

Open Learning has no instructor or TA. Questions about Open Learning or the platform go to parasol@ucsd.edu or the ITS Service Desk. A problem report from Open Learning may take longer to answer than one from a course. See Individual User Issues. A question about a course's assignments still goes to that course's instructor or TA.