Many traditional computational chemistry teaching laboratories are based on students accessing specialised software, through departmental computing clusters. Commercial cloud platforms will often not have this specialised licensed software installed and many licence agreements have limitations on where the software can be installed, requiring legal assurances from the platform provider. The issue of licensing can be circumvented by using institutional rather than commercial cloud services but as with free software this then raises the issue of software installation. Commercial cloud providers will provide hardware but it is left to the client to install the software and act as system administrators which many educators lack the confidence to do. In this paper the software packages used were Gaussian 16 , the Amsterdam Modeling Suite (AMS) , Quantum ESPRESSO and AiiDA . Of these Gaussian 16 and the AMS suite are commercial software with licensing conditions such that teaching is generally carried out in local teaching labs through Graphical User Interfaces (GUI): GaussView for Gaussian, and the AMS suite comes with its own in-built GUI. Quantum ESPRESSO and AiiDA are open-source software, released under the GNU General Public License (GPL) and the MIT license, respectively, and teaching is facilitated through the Quantum Mobile virtual machine, with the flexibility of running on local computers and the cloud.