In addition to the official JupyterHub, it is possible to create specialized hubs to be used for specific courses. If you are an instructor for a course (or courses) and think the course might benefit from its own JupyterHub, you can contact us, NTNU IT Forskningsstøtte, through NTNU Hjelp or via email at jupyterhub (at) it.ntnu.no.
Please include at least the following infoinformation when contacting us about a new JupyterHub:
- Relevant course code(s)
- Approximate number of students
- Name and NTNU email address for at least one instructor responsible for the JupyterHub
- Any customisation required?
- Is there a need for delivering and grading assignments with nbgrader on the hub? Any customisation required?
(If the answer to 5. and 6. is a 'no', please consider whether your course can use https://jupyterhub.apps.stack.it.ntnu.no/ instead.)
Customisation
The hubs can be customised in a few different ways.
All of our hubs are based on the Jupyter official jupyter/datascience-notebook image, with a few additional tweaks. Generally speaking, the image covers many use cases within basic programming and data science with the packages and modules the image comes with by default. You can find the full list of the pre-installed packages here. However, many courses require specific packages to be installed. It is possible to install any packages, notebook- and/or jupyterlab extensions beforehand, that should be ready for all users of the hub. Unfortunately this can be only done by us, the maintainers of the adminshub, the instructors (and any other users) can only install packages to their own environments. We can install new packages at any point throughout the semester as well if needed - just get in touch with us.
The hubs use the Jupyterlab interface by default, but that can be changed to the Notebook interface. That is not a hard limitation however, users can always change between the lab and notebook interfaces just by changing the URL.
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