Add support to exhibit notebook as a slideshow

[htadashi]

Jupyter notebooks can exhibit its cells as a slideshow (see for instance: https://medium.com/@mjspeck/presenting-code-using-jupyter-notebook-slides-a8a3c3b59d67).

It would be nice if Google Collab had support for a similar feature.

[joaoplm]

I agree 100%

[parmentelat]

For the sake of accuracy, there are mainly two options to run slides off a notebook;

The older one is based on nbconvert as mentioned in the page referenced in the first post on this issue; it involves running an external process to produce an html file

The other one is based on RISE, it is more convenient in the sense that notebook is converted to reveal on the fly, all happens in the same browser tab; one can go back and forth from notebook mode to slideshow mode, and changes can be done seemlessly in either mode.

At first sight it looks like supporting RISE would be an easier path than the other, more clumsy workflow, IMHO.

[Jiang-Li]

Is this function in the action list?

[hugocool]

Is there any progress on this issue?

[g-eorge]

:+1: this would be very useful.

[EricKenjiLee]

Adding onto the support for this! We would love to provide Colab notebooks as mediums for science communication and it would be incredibly convenient to have this feature!!!

[luispereiraLJ]

Another push for this one. Especially to present for non-analyst audiences would be useful. Thanks!

[sebastiandres]

This would indeed be awesome. Google Colab is great to show code and start coding, since it's free and you can pass it to students knowing the code will run smoothly. No hassle. But from a teachers perspective, it's missing the presentation mode that allows to focus on specific topics or not revealing the answer in the next line.

[fortinux]

yes, it could be a great feature for teaching

[maksimu]

Waiting for this feature as well

[davidatada]

Currently this is one feature stopping me from fully making the leap to colab for teaching. Would love to see it happen!

[zdwhite]

Imagine how nice it would be if you can have embedded cells actually in google slides that could reference your coding notebook cells.

Most folks are thinking about just presenting the notebook itself, but you miss out on all the quality of life improvements that a standard presentation tool brings to the table. That being said an interim solution would still be most welcome.

[magick93]

Any updates to this? It would be a really fantastic feature!

[pbilling]

Please 😭

[horoshenkih]

For those who are interested in possible workarounds for teaching, I wrote a script based on nbconvert: https://github.com/horoshenkih/harbour-space-text-mining-course/blob/master/scripts/slideshow.py

It generates slides based on either HTML comments in markdown cells, or code comments in Python cells. This is the example of an annotated Colab notebook: https://colab.research.google.com/drive/1Lf71qKV0SROFNmDJk6uFy1GT6u-Xh34T?usp=sharing

A comment in an HTML cell may look like this

<!--@slideshow slide-->

And for a code cell it is like this

#@slideshow slide

Generated slides look like this: lec7.zip

Yes the workflow is not as smooth as it might be, but it works :)

[LaboratorioSperimentale]

Is there any news on this? It would indeed be great for teaching purposes!

[khoroshyy]

I agree; it would be great.

[trancethehuman]

This would be great. Been using Google Colab as workshop materials, and scrolling and zooming in, and switching between it and Canva is not super ideal.

[sebastiandres]

I've using quarto + pyodide extension, which works great for having a python console embedded without requiring an installation for users. I imagine you can use the same content and use it as slides. You can take a look here: https://pyschool.cl/ Code here: https://github.com/sebastiandres/pyschool_content