I teach this stuff using a stm32l476vg discovery board at the Australian National University[0]. I re-wrote the course earlier this year to use that board (previous incarnations used a homebrew teaching architecture - emulated in software only).
It went really well - although there are always rough edges the first time through a course. Next year, I'm going to tighten things up (one of my jobs over the southern summer before the course runs again in Feb 2018).
Happy to answer any questions that folks have.