Covid is making it hard to predict whether students will be in the lab, or working from their bedroom. In response to that uncertainty we've done an incremental update to the 'Classroom Logger' tutorial from 2019 which separates the soldering steps from the rest of the assembly:

https://thecavepearlproject.org/2020/10/22/pro-mini-classroom-datalogger-2020-update/

Instructors can remove those steps as need for whatever confounding situation they are dealing with at their institution. Though I have to say, it's profoundly disagreeable to realize that this years crop of environmental monitoring students might not learn how to solder.