For the department's use-case, the advantageous technical features are minimal complexity (relatively light installation), maximum flexibility (achievable installation on most hardware/operating system combination), interactivity, utility (arising from popularity for data science), and maintainability (straightforward to update application).
Jenkins, instructor of the Computational Macroeconomics course which was new in 2019, states in a paper written about this program "From a pedagogical perspective, the Jupyter Notebook is a fantastic tool that makes it easy to teach." \cite{jenkins} In fact he even notes that one of the contributions of the paper supporting better teaching by describing how to take advantage of Jupyter notebooks' versatility.
The Notebook is a wonderful instructional tool because it allows me to write notes and instructions in HTML that students can read in advance and then we complete