In our recent proposal, we wrote:
<quote>In the future, we plan to add a portal or ``Science Gateway'' to our online teaching tools. This will allow students to become familiar with what the Toolkit does and how to use it before understanding how to build and develop it. It will also allow researchers who are not interested in the mechanics of computational science to make use of the toolkit. The use of Science Gateways on XSEDE resources is on the rise, increasing by a factor of five during the years 2011-2017~\cite{simakov2018workload}, which indicates this to be an important trend in computational research.</quote>
I am looking for suggestions about how to make this idea more concrete. In principle, we could have a machine setup with a pre-compiled ETK and a gui to edit select fields of a set of well-chosen parfiles. Does this sound like a reasonable approach?
Long term, I had a dream to have a system where students could construct thorns for simple PDE from equations using infrastructure like what Zach et. al. are building now.
--Steve