> You didn't say if this is a classroom lab (so all of your students will be 
> using
> Sage at once) or a math computer lab for out-of-class homework (so students
> will go in at random times, convenient for them). Others can answer your
> questions more definitively than I but I think their answer will
> depend on the number of
> students using Sage at the same time.

I agree.  Marshall, you've done the computer lab situation, right -
any thoughts?

The out-of-class-time situation definitely calls for the server, I
think, because otherwise people have to make that trek to the computer
lab without any real reason.  As long as you have enough memory and
are able to make sure not too many students use it at once, it should
work; there are several threads on sage-support about this, e.g.
http://groups.google.com/group/sage-support/browse_thread/thread/6735e88260cc079/4bfcd447910d26cd
or
http://groups.google.com/group/sage-support/browse_thread/thread/b57c78d4e01a30ed?q=
the latter one addressing the possibility of having multiple ports.

> > 3. Set up a Sage Notebook server. Pros: easy for students to use,
> > access their work from anywhere in the world. Cons: have no idea how
> > to do it. (I can get help setting up a web server, that is not the
> > problem, the question is how to set up Sage and the notebook server.
> > The web server, and Sage, would be running in a Ubuntu server).
>

I agree with David on this one; I think it is the kind of thing that
is not too hard (Sage is pretty robust, and so is VMWare).  It will
take a little effort to set up - but I think not too much, and once
our sysadmin got it running he said even I could learn how to reset it
in case something crashed, which is saying something.

Good luck!  The notebook server aspect is a really nice feature of
Sage for education, because it makes things so convenient for students
that they might actually do more than they expect... and that's a good
thing.

- kcrisman

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