colearendt/classroom-server

Shiny app to help with classroom server assignments

Classroom Server

This Shiny application is built to help with workshops. In particular, it takes charge over an oft painful process:

• uniquely identify users
• allocate resources (usually a cloud-based VM per student) to those users

The dynamic classroom is the most advanced version of the application, is multi-tenant (many workshops at once), and is backed by a Postgres database.

Getting Started

To test the app locally, you will need a postgres database. Define one in the config.yml file at ./dynamic-classroom/config.yml.

Then connect to the database and execute the following:

source("./dynamic-classroom/create_table.R")
create_all(con, schema = "schema", prefix = "some_prefix_")

This creates the tables necessary to run the application. Specify the same schema and prefix in the app, and you're off to the races!