Hello everyone,

In January I start teaching an introductory course in PDEs.  I have taught this many times but this time I plan to have a weekly computer lab where the students can learn to run software (based on firedrake) and then write a lab report.  I have a bunch of notebooks that I will give to them one at a time and get them to solve a variety of problems.  Before I do I have a few questions.

• I presume no one has a problem with this?
• There are 40 some students registered in the class.  I don't plan to get them to change the code except for parameters and maybe functions.  But if students have questions they can go through the usual channels to ask questions, i.e. email and slack?
• I know that it is good practice for each firedraker to install their own code but I am going to install it on a server and let them use it, since it will be so much easier for them.  If you have any warning as to what might go wrong please let me know.
• If it would be helpful to advertise somewhere that I am using firedrake in a course, please let me know how.