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The shared folder can be used as a simple way for sharing files from the course staff to students on the hub. The folder is a simple directory of which contents every user on the hub can see and read from, but only admin users and members of the instructor group can write to. The only way students can make changes to the files under the shared folder is to make personal copies of the files into their own home directories. Students are not able to write to files in the shared folder directly.
nbgitpuller
The Jupyter extension nbgitpuller can be used create a link that will automatically clone a git repository onto a user's environment, given that your notebooks and files you want to share are stored in a publicly accessible git repository. It is incredibly simple to use, no git experience required; the user only needs to click the link, and nbgitpuller will transfer the files from the git repository to the user. nbgitpuller is automatically installed on each hub.
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