The evolution of computational chemistry in all its diverse forms in the modern taught university laboratory curriculum these past two decades has been remarkable. It is also morphing from a stand-alone exercise into one increasingly twinned with the more traditional laboratory "wet chemistry" experiments of molecule preparation and measurement of their properties. All this activity is associated with the collection of large amounts of digital data, which underpins the student interpretation and analysis of the experiment and is becoming part of the evaluation of the student experiment. Teaching the management this data is also evolving, in part by absorbing the changes in how research data itself is nowadays handled. This article focuses on this last aspect by introducing how two software tools have been introduced to revolutionise data management by researchers and students alike in the chemistry department at Imperial College over these last two decades, taking the form of what is now increasingly referred to as the curation of research data in FAIR (Findable, Accessible, Interoperable and Reusable) form and its publication and recognition as a formal research object.