The most difficult aspect of implementing The Archive will be to decide who has which access to what, and when. How to implement and administer those policies? How to organize this data for ease of access by the users and minimize administrative overhead?
Student work is placed in immutable files. Graders, TA, and instructors are given read-only access to student work for their respective courses. Via access-control lists, each student has read-only access to his/her own work and the grading reports on it. That access eliminates the need to return physical pieces of paper.2.15