[TheNewsIsHere]

I am sympathetic. From someone who completed his degree in the last decade, I offer my perspective on this sort of thing.

When I completed my degree and got the eventual one year look back survey, I actually called out the explosion in faculty electing to use third party services which weren’t vetted by or supported by the university. One of my chief complaints was that students had no recourse other than to agree to arbitrary terms and sometimes pay arbitrary amounts to companies that were clearly monetizing our data.

(Although that last part isn’t as much a concern here.)

I can imagine if I was required to use something that made my coursework public, I would have simply gone to the CISO Office or the Student Ombudsman if not offered an alternative.

[mturk]

I'll be honest and say that I - not even that long ago - held similar attitudes and slowly made a series of compromises (to myself) that led to this point. While I'm not sure I fully regret it I do think it was ... not as well-considered as I'd like. ("I don't even know who you are anymore!" he said into the mirror.)

We mostly use a locally-hosted jupyterhub, but for JS work often used other environments. For JS, we made the switch to observable from iodide (after it was wound down) and I think I will re-evaluate platforms again, including JS kernels in Jupyter.

[nullfield]

Thank you for having the self-awareness to look back from where you are and recognize where you came from, along with the humility of character to acknowledge that errors may have been made-all while having a sense of humor about it too!