make that you must start a project to see its files clearer

[williamstein]

Right now if a student opens a project with their first assignment in it, they see this:

If they then click "Start project", it starts in a few seconds and shows their files. However, seriously confuses some percentage of people, who don't think to click "Start project".

Come up with a way to address this.

This mainly happens in the context of courses, where the project gets the files, but the directory listing cache is not updated. The best fix might be to update the directory listing cache automatically after copying files to a project via our file copy mechanism.

[williamstein]

Now in this case you see this:

which will probably help reduce confusion...