[IPython-dev] [jupyter]News from a French Mooc about Python with ipython

[Brian Granger]

Benjamin,

Thanks for sharing this. JupyterHub is definitely being built for this type
of things exactly - although deploying it at scale is definitely
non-trivial. We would love to have you help on JupyterHub in any way you
are able!

Cheers,

Brian

On Tue, Mar 31, 2015 at 10:59 AM, Matthias Bussonnier <
bussonniermatthias at gmail.com> wrote:

> Bonjour Benjamin,
>
>
> Le 31 mars 2015 à 06:37, Benjamin Ninassi <benjamin.ninassi at inria.fr> a
> écrit :
>
> Hi all,
>
> Months ago I told you about our purpose to use ipython notebooks on a web
> plateform (without requiring students to install anything on their
> computer) in a Mooc about python programming on the governmental french
> Mooc plateform https://www.france-universite-numerique-mooc.fr/.
>
> The mooc (
> https://www.france-universite-numerique-mooc.fr/courses/inria/41001/Trimestre_4_2014/about)
> took place between november and december 2014, featuring 111 ipython
> notebooks (+ videos, quizz and other contents).
>
>
>
> That's great to hear, and we really appreciate you coming back to us with
> such information,
> it is a really helpful to know what are the usage of IPython.
>
>
> On this occasion we have developed an application infrastructure around
> ipython notebooks.
> This infrastructure allows, through a URL containing a student identifier
> and a notebook name :
> - to dynamically create student accounts on the server
> - to copy the teacher's notebook to the student directory, and create
> access to some resources (data, media)
> - to dynamically launch an ipython dedicated web server for the student
> (assuming it's not already running) so that it can use its versions of the
> notebooks in a mastered context (for security issues)
>
> Some other features have been developed and integrated (eg deployment
> management of the teacher notebooks), the possibility to  reset notebook
> (get the latest version of the teacher), the ability to generate a static
> html version deployed in the student space, allowing him to share its
> results with other students (through eg forum), etc. The GUI has also been
> slightly customized to access these features and limit feasible actions by
> students who do not know the keyboard shortcuts. A xBlock for OpenEdx was
> created so as to include these notebooks in the MOOC platform through an
> iframe to completely integrate the course complements the platform.
> The developments were largely made in php / Symfony2 + some shell scripts,
> the server-side security was mostly made with AppArmor.
>
> The MOOC went very well (over 9,000 enrolled students) and feedbacks on
> the notebooks were extremely positive!
> This application will be reused in a robotics MOOC before this summer, and
> the python programming MOOC will be replayed next fall.
>
> We had no time to properly package the developments or write anything on
> the subject, but as I discover
> https://developer.rackspace.com/blog/deploying-jupyterhub-for-education/
> , I feel JupyterHub was Developed to meet a similar need, any feedback on
> its use in a Mooc or any massive environnement with hundreds of students at
> a time would be interesting !
>
>
>
> That's awesome, I suppose the decision to not develop that completely in
> the open is not yours, and I hope that this was not too much re-inventing
> the same things both on our and your side.
>
> I don't know how much you can share that, but it would be nice to compare
> the workflow of your platform and yours too see where we can improve both.
> Maybe it would be possible to at least share that in private ? Or get
> thoughts on security or challenges you had ?
>
> As you have probably seen in Jess email, we are going release things
> relatively soon (though they are already available on github) and we will
> continue to develop and push things forward. we would really appreciate
> your contribution, and listen to your needs to get something reusable.
>
>
> Feel free to come back to me with any questions !
>
>
>
> Have you talk to / hear of the mood of Lorena Barbara, i think they are
> also integrating with EDX.
>
> Any chance you can share some feedback/analytics of how students are using
> the notebooks ?
> We might develop a extension that  collect some of students behavior like
> which keyboard shortcut/button they use.
> Would you be interested in using it ?
>
>
> Thanks, keep us informed, and looking forward to more collaboration.
> --
> M
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Brian E. Granger
Cal Poly State University, San Luis Obispo
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