Author

Derek Sollberger

Published

July 13, 2023

Installation

Each admin user (“instructor”) can verify the presence of nbgitpuller on their hub presence

open a terminal session
run pip install nbgitpuller

File Setup

The purpose of nbgitpuller is to ease access to files in a remote GitHub repository.

create a GitHub repository
place a .ipynb notebook file
TO DO: test this on a private repository

Create Link

Go to this website (or later use a browser extension)

URL for hub (e.g. https://ucmerced.2i2c.cloud)
URL for repo (e.g. https://github.com/dsollberger/shared_stuff)
indicate file name (i.e. the assignment’s notebook)
copy-and-paste generated link to assignment (i.e. back in Canvas)

Future Work

TO DO: see if this access works from a student perspective
TO DO: apply GitHub Actions (e.g. release file to students after a certain date/time)