What is a UCS class account or folder?

UCS class accounts or folders are folders that are 
created by your instructor.  They are separate from 
your UCS home directory.  Your home UCS directory 
exists as long as you remain a student.  UCS class 
accounts exist for the duration of the course.  

The class folders in your CMPS 250 section belong 
to a project located at /w1/cs2501, where 1 is
your section number.  The instructor that created 
the project has read and write permission on all 
class folders.  You have read and write permission 
on just your class folder.  (This is separate from 
your home directory /home/your-clid, which the 
instructor cannot look in.)  When the class project 
was created, a soft-link was placed in your home 
directory by the system.  You see this as the
folder cs2501, but if you do a "ls -l" command, 
you will see that it actually just points to 
/w1/cs2501/your-clid.