Present Your Python: Convert Jupyter Notebooks into Interactive Slides

For educators, developers, and students who are looking for a way to present technical content in a more engaging and interactive way, RISE is the perfect tool.

Converting the Jupyter Notebook to Presentation slides, no need to export your notebook or switch tools, just install the RISE extension, open your notebook, and click on the Enter/Exit RISE Slideshow button. Your notebook instantly transforms into a slideshow, powered by the Reveal.js framework.

Pre-request

As a preliminary step, before you start, please ensure that you have Python 3.11 or a later version installed on your system and that it is correctly configured to be executable directly from your terminal or command line interface. Optional, you can have rye or uv installed.

Setting up a python project

Create a directory for the project, open terminal or command prompt from the particular directory location and follow the steps.

1) Setting up virtual environment

rye init --virtual
rye sync

uv init .
uv sync

# installing virtual environment library
$ python -m pip install virtualenv

# Creating a new virtual environment
# <venv_name> can be any user defined, here will say it as '.venv'
$ python -m virtualenv <venv_name>

# activating virtual environment 
source .venv/bin/activate

# installing virtual environment library
C:\> python -m pip install virtualenv

# Creating a new virtual environment
# <venv_name> can be any user defined, here will say it as '.venv'
C:\> python -m virtualenv <venv_name>


# activating virtual environment 
C:\> .venv\scripts\activate

2) Adding library to project

rye add notebook==6.2 setuptools rise==5.7.1

uv add notebook==6.2 setuptools rise==5.7.1

# installing libraries
(.venv)$ python -m pip install notebook==6.2 rise==5.7.1

# installing libraries
(.venv)C:\> python -m pip install notebook==6.2 rise==5.7.1

3) Starting a Jupyter Notebook Server

rye run jupyter notebook

uv run jupyter notebook

(.venv)$ jupyter notebook

(.venv)C:\> jupyter notebook

This should start a notebook server at localhost IP address 127.0.0.1 with default port set to 8888.

If you have configured the default browser, jupyter dashboard will open directly, once the jupyter notebook server is started.

Creating a new Notebook

With jupyter notebook dashboard open, click on New button, select python 3. This should create a new jupyter notebook with default file name untitled.ipynb.

Rename the file by clicking on the untitled, to the name that matches your concept.

Fill the content using Markdown, HTML or Latex in the cell. Every cell can be configured to be a slide or the fragment inside a slide.

Structuring the presentation

Each individual cell within a Jupyter Notebook offers the flexibility to be designated as a slide, a sub-slide, a fragment of a slide, to be skipped entirely, or to serve as speaker’s notes, all through the strategic use of cell metadata. To set this up using the GUI, go to : View → Cell Toolbar → Slideshow. This adds a dropdown menu to every cell. (fig: slide type selection)

Slide Types

Enter the slide show mode by clicking on a bar chart with a screen icon button in the toolbar, that says "Enter/Exit RISE Slideshow" on hover.

Customization

Adding Images, Videos, Links and Executing code

Customising theme, transition and enable chalkboard feature