diff --git a/scripts/convert_notebooks.sh b/scripts/convert_notebooks.sh
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+# run this from the the top-level directory
+# it creates there a notebooks/ and _solved/solutions/ dir
+# that get automatically copied to the correct places
+
+if [ "$#" -ne 1 ]; then
+    echo "You must enter exactly one command line argument for the course edition"
+    exit 1
+fi
+
+export COURSE_DIR="DS-python-geospatial-$1"
+
+echo "Preparing course materials for $COURSE_DIR"
+echo ""
+echo "-- Creating temporary directory to generate course materials"
+mkdir temp_course_setup
+pushd temp_course_setup
+
+# cloning repositories to make sure we start with a clean state
+echo ""
+echo "-- Cloning repositories"
+git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/plovercode/DS-python-geospatial.git $COURSE_DIR
+git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/plovercode/course-python-geospatial.git course-python-geospatial-clean
+
+# copying all necessary files to the course directory
+echo ""
+echo "-- Copying files to $COURSE_DIR"
+cp course-python-geospatial-clean/notebooks/*.ipynb $COURSE_DIR/_solved/
+cp course-python-geospatial-clean/notebooks/data/ $COURSE_DIR/notebooks/ -r
+cp course-python-geospatial-clean/img/ $COURSE_DIR/ -r
+cp course-python-geospatial-clean/environment.yml $COURSE_DIR/
+cp course-python-geospatial-clean/check_environment.py $COURSE_DIR/
+
+# converting notebooks with solutions to student notebooks
+echo ""
+echo "-- Converting notebooks"
+pushd $COURSE_DIR/
+
+declare -a arr=(
+   "00-jupyter_introduction.ipynb"
+   "01-introduction-tabular-data.ipynb"
+   "02-introduction-geospatial-data.ipynb"
+   "03-coordinate-reference-systems.ipynb"
+   "04-spatial-relationships-joins.ipynb"
+   "05-spatial-operations-overlays.ipynb"
+   "10-introduction-raster.ipynb"
+   "11-xarray-intro.ipynb"
+   "12-xarray-advanced.ipynb"
+   "13-raster-processing.ipynb"
+   "14-combine-data.ipynb"
+   "15-xarray-dask-big-data.ipynb"
+   "90_package_numpy.ipynb"
+   "91_package_rasterio.ipynb"
+   "case-argo-sea-floats.ipynb"
+   "case-curieuzeneuzen-air-quality.ipynb"
+   "case-sea-surface-temperature.ipynb"
+   "visualization-01-matplotlib.ipynb"
+   "visualization-02-geopandas.ipynb"
+   "visualization-03-cartopy.ipynb"
+   "visualization-04-interactive.ipynb"
+)
+
+cd _solved
+mkdir ./notebooks
+
+for i in "${arr[@]}"
+do
+   echo "---- Converting " "$i"
+   jupyter nbconvert --to=notebook --config ../../../nbconvert_config.py --output "notebooks/$i" "$i"
+done
+
+echo ""
+echo "-- Copying converted notebooks and solutions"
+cp -r notebooks/. ../notebooks
+cp -r _solutions/. ../notebooks/_solutions
+
+rm -r notebooks/
+rm -r _solutions/
+
+cd ..
+
+# clear output from solved notebooks
+jupyter nbconvert --clear-output _solved/*.ipynb
+
+popd
+popd
+
+echo ""
+echo "-- Moving $COURSE_DIR to top-level directory and cleaning up temporary files"
+mv ./temp_course_setup/$COURSE_DIR/ ../../$COURSE_DIR
+rm -rf temp_course_setup/
+
+echo ""
+echo "-- Committing changes"
+cd ../../$COURSE_DIR
+git checkout -b update-$1
+git commit -am "$1 edition - update materials"
+
+echo ""
+echo "-- Course materials are ready in:"
+echo ""
+echo "   cd $(pwd)"
+echo ""
+echo "   Remember to push the changes to GitHub:"
+echo ""
+echo "   git push origin main:update-$1"
diff --git a/scripts/nbconvert_config.py b/scripts/nbconvert_config.py
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+c.Exporter.preprocessors = ['nbtutor.ClearExercisePreprocessor', 'nbconvert.preprocessors.ClearOutputPreprocessor']