Emacs is a complex tool that itself can take a semester or more to get
productive in. I know I myself tried for years to move to it and was only
able to after learning vim bindings pretty well, and starting to use
Spacemacs. Forcing students to use emacs, much less org - especially in
this day and age where students *will* ask online, and *will* get a
response of "no one actually uses that" - will probably meet with a ton of
resistance.

On Mon, Apr 3, 2023 at 9:03 AM Marko Schuetz-Schmuck <MarkoSchuetz@web.de>
wrote:

> Dear All,
>
> I teach some software engineering courses and in each of them students
> work on semester-long projects in teams. So far, have let them choose
> their own tools for all the tasks (implementation language,
> documentation tools, etc.). Personally, I have been using org-mode for
> what feels like forever. I was thinking that it would be nice to have
> students use org-mode also for their project. I can see it provide so
> many features that would benefit the projects: easy links for
> e.g. traceability, tagging of requirements for categorizing, responsible
> developer,..., of course todo lists, priorities, progress tracking,
> rendering to web page, PDF,...
>
> Since these are students from a very technical background I would hope
> they would be open to this.
>
> Anyway, does anyone have any experience related to this, maybe not
> specifically related to teaching, but software engineering projects
> (with documentation of domain, requirements, project approach, progress,
> references, source code, testing, design, etc. etc. etc.)?
>
> Best regards,
>
> Marko
>