The useGalaxy.be server provides Training Infrastructure as a Service (TIaaS) for the Galaxy training community. You provide the training, we provide the infrastructure at no cost.

Why TIaaS?

• No Galaxy maintenance
• No Galaxy administration
• Free infrastructure
• Make use of Galaxy Training Materials
• See how your students are progressing on a dashboard

How TIaaS Works

To get started, fill in the TIaaS request form. After the request is approved, you will receive two links from us:

• A link to the monitoring page for the trainer to track the progress of the trainees
• A link for the trainees to register themselves for the training

Some more general information about the TIaaS service:

• It has a calendar that shows when TIaaS trainings are booked.
• You can find some statistics about the TIaaS events.

Before the training

Before users can join a specific training, they need to be logged into the Belgian Galaxy server. Only then can they register themselves through the link received from the trainer.

To import data:

• If you are using the Galaxy Training Network (GTN) material for your workshop, the trainees can fetch the example input data themselves as explained in the respective GTN guide. If you want to avoid potential temporary file transfer failures, you could provide the trainees with the data yourself beforehand as explained in the next point.

• If you are using your own data, you can upload it to your account into a history. Later, you can make it accessible to your trainees. Your trainees will then be able to import your history and start working with your data.

We ask that unused and unnecessary data is cleaned up after the training, helping us offer Galaxy as a more sustainable service. To see which storage location is in use for your history, click on the Preferred Storage Location on the right panel (History panel).

You can learn more about managing storage options on the Galaxy Training Network page.

After the training

Once the training is over, the data will stay available for further use. However, we encourage you to clean up all the histories whenever this data will not be used anymore.

To keep running this free service for your trainees, we would like to ask your feedback and support. It would be great if you could:

• Send us a (short) testimonial about your experience with the provided TIaaS to datacore.galaxy(at)vib.be.
• If GTN material helped you in your training, please make sure to fill out the general GTN Survey.
• If you used a GTN tutorial in your training, please fill in the feedback form that can be found at the end of every GTN tutorial.

Disclaimer

We cannot promise any degree of uptime. We will do our best to have this service online and functioning during the entire time period of the training, but there are cases where the service may experience interruptions that are outside of our control. We will keep you informed of any outages that may affect your training.

Availability

Anyone wanting to provide training on the Belgian Galaxy server is eligible to request the use of this service.

Application Process

1. Fill out the request form:

   Request Training Infrastructure

   Please try to submit your application at least two weeks in advance of the training.

2. Get approval from the Galaxy BE admins, after which you will receive:
   • the URL your users will access to join the training,
   • the URL to the dashboard for you to see the progress of your trainees.
3. Done! You are ready to give your training!