Comment by vee-kay

Agreed. Using one file management version-control system within another, is a surefire recipe for trouble and disaster.

But it isn't the students' fault, I guess they are still learning how to use computers.

This is purely an IT Administration fiasco. The IT admin should simply exclude the repository folders/paths from OneDrive. Or make everyone to save non-code documents to a separate shared network path, which is a storage drive that gets automatically backed up daily.

https://www.thewindowsclub.com/how-to-remove-a-folder-from-o...