Managing Heroku apps & teams

In 2022, Heroku eliminated their free plan, making it impossible for students to deploy simple ESaaS CHIPS to Heroku without paying a fee.

Heroku/Salesforce is very generous about working with instructors. Although they have a student program, you may find it easier to contact them to set you up as an instructor by having a special Heroku team in your account that is used for student coursework. Students still create their (free) Heroku developer accounts, but you can add and remove apps and associated collaborators on your course-related "team" and have those apps centrally billed, and make an arrangement with Heroku to have those charges covered as long as the apps are course-related and you agree to be responsible for the actions of anyone who joins that team.

To make it easier to manage the team, look at scripts/heroku-appsfor a script that lets you bulk-add and bulk-remove students and apps from your Heroku course-linked team. Its README.mdhas more details.