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A system for assigning and grading notebooks
https://nbgrader.readthedocs.io/
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Changing the Exchange back-end? #944

Closed perllaghu closed 6 years ago

perllaghu commented 6 years ago

We are running a campus-wide Notebook service as multiple Docker containers across a swarm*.... with a VLE authentication client (aka an LTI "provider") front-ending jupyterhub .

Our next interest is implementing NBGrader in notebooks, however as we are running in a swarm the Exchange suite writing to local-filestore is problematic for us.

Rather than just fork NBGrader and hack our own code in, we'd like to create (and push back) a solution that is extensible and enables others to do similar things.

Do you have any conceptual plan for allowing alternative functionality for the Exchange code (similar to ContentsManager in Notebooks themselves: http://jupyter-notebook.readthedocs.io/en/latest/extending/contents.html)

Issues #530(ish) #659 #841 seem partially relevant

[*] Tip: Go Kubenetes rather than Docker Swarm.

jhamrick commented 6 years ago

Yes, this is definitely something that's planned and the most thorough discussion of it is in #659 (which I see you've commented on too---but I'm just leaving a note here about that in case others come along this issue too). Unfortunately there's not currently a timeline for getting this implemented but it's definitely something we're intending to do, hopefully soon.

I'm going to close this issue and write a comment on #659 with more thoughts just to keep the discussion in one place if that's alright!