Tests Directory with Google Colab

[vladtkachuk4]

I am planning to use otter-grader with Google Colab for an assignment.
I have worked through the Tutorial in the Docs. Using the files provided in the tutorial (and removing the non-autograded questions) I've been able to generate a Colab notebook by adding runs_on: colab to the Assignment Config and running otter assign. When I upload the student notebook to Colab and run it, the following line throws an error since it is expecting a tests directory:
grader = otter.Notebook(colab=True)
This is of course expected. I've been able to get things to work by adding the following code cell:

from google.colab import drive
drive.mount('/content/drive')
!cp -r /content/drive/MyDrive/otter-grader/tests ./test

What I am wondering is what the best way to distribute the student notebooks would be with Google Colab such that students also have access to the public tests. I don't want them to need to add the tests manually to their drive and then mount and copy it like I have.

Another minor note: I've had to manually add %pip install -q otter-grader as the first code cell to the student generated notebook. I'm assuming there is some Assignment Config setting that should cause for this to automatically be done? I suspected that runs_on: colab would automatically do this, but it doesn't.

[chrispyles]

What I am wondering is what the best way to distribute the student notebooks would be with Google Colab such that students also have access to the public tests. I don't want them to need to add the tests manually to their drive and then mount and copy it like I have.

I think the easiest thing to do would be to put the in a github repo, clone it at the top of the notebook, and then os.chdir into the repo directory.

Another minor note: I've had to manually add %pip install -q otter-grader as the first code cell to the student generated notebook. I'm assuming there is some Assignment Config setting that should cause for this to automatically be done? I suspected that runs_on: colab would automatically do this, but it doesn't.

This is a good FR, can you open an issue for it?

[vladtkachuk4]

Thanks and done.