I'm not using it in a course. I don't work at a university. There is no IT department. I'm it. It's for me and my personal use. I'm a professional math tutor who makes content for her students and wants to automate using it with LaTeX, that's all.
********************************************* Tessa F. Weinstein, Ph.D. www.tessatutors.com ********************************************* On Sat, Aug 23, 2025 at 4:42 PM Nils Bruin <nbr...@sfu.ca> wrote: > On Friday, 22 August 2025 at 23:59:52 UTC-7 aska...@gmail.com wrote: > > In any case, that's beyond the point. Sure, one can "demand" but the > actual nature of the power relationship at many unis is a different one. > I'm sure our CS department would prefer Linux running in the computers that > their students use and tried demanding this but it didn't work, which makes > it difficult to run certain courses. I currently don't teach but when I do > again, if I want to run classes with Sage (increasing the teaching base), I > will sadly require a non WSL option (which, as I say, we still have as they > kept 9.1 although I suppose at one time it'll go). > > > I'd definitely recommend offering cloud access to sagemath if you require > its use for a course. It removes all installation issues. You could try to > get IT to set up a cloud server for you that runs locally but in a shop > that's gone full MS (as it sounds in your case) they'd probably much rather > pay for an outsourced version, in which case cocalc is probably worth > checking out. > > Students who are interested in installing it on their own computer will be > able to do it -- and those students would definitely have a machine that is > not insanely locked down (is your university making available (university > managed) laptops to all students? That's quite the service! Otherwise, the > laptops that students have will not be locked down by IT, because those are > not their machines). > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "sage-devel" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to sage-devel+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > To view this discussion visit > https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/sage-devel/565424d9-e4fd-4704-8f34-411bdbf39cf6n%40googlegroups.com > <https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/sage-devel/565424d9-e4fd-4704-8f34-411bdbf39cf6n%40googlegroups.com?utm_medium=email&utm_source=footer> > . > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "sage-devel" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to sage-devel+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To view this discussion visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/sage-devel/CAPFwps8mhcOm7YXJWuP3svsHm2Vqj26iyT7kFTLVmDm1oJBssQ%40mail.gmail.com.
