Student guide to notebook labs

Overview

If your instructor added you to a CloudPe notebook lab, you receive an email invitation. Accepting links your CloudPe account to that lab only. You are not joining the institution's organisation — you will not see their billing, team, or projects.

After you accept, open the lab hub URL, sign in with CloudPe, and start a notebook server from JupyterHub. Your work is saved on a personal volume that stays when the server stops.

Before you start

• You need the invitation email (check spam if it is missing). Ask your instructor to use Resend invite on your roster row.
• CloudPe sign-up for new accounts is limited to supported countries (India in the current release).
• Your institution may apply country rules and IP allow-lists; those apply to lab sign-in the same as to org members.

Steps

Accept the invitation

1. Open the link in the invitation email.
2. Create a CloudPe account if prompted, or sign in with your existing account.
3. Accept the lab invitation.

When acceptance succeeds, you are an active lab member.

Open the lab

1. Open Notebooks in the CloudPe dashboard (students with no organisation see this as their main entry).
2. Select your lab, or use the hub link from the invitation (same address as Open Hub on the lab row).
3. Sign in with CloudPe when the hub asks you to, and approve the one-time consent step.
4. In JupyterHub, choose Start (or equivalent) to launch your server, then open JupyterLab.

Use your notebook server

1. Storage — You have a personal 10 GiB volume. Files remain when the server stops.
2. Idle shutdown — By default, servers stop after 30 minutes without activity and after 12 hours total runtime. Open the lab again and start a new server when you return.
3. Network — Notebooks can reach the public internet on ports 80, 443 and 22. They cannot reach private networks or other students' servers.

Open in CloudPe (public repository)

Open in CloudPe pulls a public repository into your lab and opens JupyterLab.

1. Use a link that points to the CloudPe open flow with a repository URL (for example /dashboard/notebooks/open?repo=<https-url>&branch=<branch>&path=<notebook-path>). Course materials may give you this link ready-made.
2. Sign in if asked and pick your lab if you belong to more than one.
3. Only https repositories on GitHub, GitLab or Hugging Face are accepted; other hosts are rejected.

The page title is Open in CloudPe.

Share a notebook read-only

Read-only sharing publishes a static HTML copy of one of your own .ipynb files. There is no share button in the dashboard yet; use the CloudPe notebooks API if your course requires it. Shared links last 7 days and do not update when you edit the notebook.

Troubleshooting

• This lab is not available for your account right now. — You are not an active member, the lab is suspended, or billing blocked spawns. Contact your instructor.

• You cannot sign in — Confirm your roster status is active, not merely invited. Country or IP restrictions may block you.

• Empty dashboard except Notebooks — Expected for lab-only students; open Notebooks to reach your labs.

• Notebook labs overview

• Manage a lab roster

• Notebook labs troubleshooting