Benefits

Cloud desktops bring tremendous benefits for organisations that want to offer live, instructor-led training. These advantages become especially clear when you're running IT training courses for many participants spread across various locations in China.

Across China, more and more companies are also choosing DaDesktop for local, live, instructor-led training, drawn by the ease of pre-installing and configuring complex software applications, then quickly cloning them to dozens or even hundreds of other cloud desktops.

Here’s a look at why instructors, participants, and organisations choose DaDesktop for their training requirements and the benefits they’ve gained.
 

Organisations (companies, learning institutions, government)

• Cost-effective
  • Using DaDesktop is significantly less expensive than using cloud machines from AWS, Azure, and Google Cloud.
  • Because DaDesktop is focused on short-term usage of cloud desktops, not long-term cloud machine hosting, a much simpler and lower-cost pricing model can be used.
• Scalable
  • Companies use DaDesktop to deliver IT training to large numbers of participants, cloning a pre-configured cloud desktop to well over 50 students at a time, all without any issues.
  • DaDesktop servers can hold thousands of virtual machine images at any given time, making it possible to scale participant numbers far beyond the typical size of a normal classroom.
• Fast
  • Using DaDesktop, cloud desktops are rapidly spun up at the start of a training session, then quickly shut down when the session ends.
  • DaDesktop cloud desktops can be cloned more than 100 times faster than an AWS public-cloud machine or a classroom workstation.
• Convenient
  • An easy-to-use interface lets you set up and tweak the learning environment on the fly, even after the class has already started.
• Extensible
  • DaDesktop provides a convenient way to request new features.
  • DaDesktop supports a public API, and extensions that allow custom integration with third-party systems such as LDAP, OpenID-Connect, and LMS.
• Secure
  • No user data is stored on DaDesktop beyond the duration of a training session.
  • Each cloud desktop is designed to be a temporary and self-contained computing environment.
• Accessible
  • There's no need to ask the IT department for permission to let software bypass the company firewall.
  • The entire Windows or Linux OS desktop environment is accessible right in the browser without needing to install any plugins.
• Public, Private and On-premise
  • DaDesktop can be accessed from a public or private server, offering users different levels of exclusivity.

  • DaDesktop can also be installed on-premise in the customer's own datacenter.

     

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Instructors

• Convenient
  • An instructor can spin up as many cloud desktops as needed, assigning one per participant for use throughout the training session.
  • An instructor can pre-install and configure a single cloud desktop with the required software and OS settings, then simply clone it for as many participants as needed. No valuable class time is wasted fiddling with the setup.
  • The instructor can run training sessions using just a browser on their laptop, from the comfort of home or office.
• Fast
  • Instructors can spin up multiple cloud desktops for multiple participants all at once, within seconds.
• Interactive
  • Instructors can not only view participants' desktops, but can also take control of their desktops at any time, just like in a live classroom setting.
• Recordable
  • The trainer can record their entire training session to share with participants afterwards.

  • The recorded training can be reviewed by the instructor as self-feedback to help improve future course deliveries.

     

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Participants

• Convenient
  • Participants can access DaDesktop from their laptop or PC browser using nothing more than a URL provided by the instructor.
  • Participants do not need to install any software. They simply log into DaDesktop and start using the Windows or Linux OS desktop environment from within their browser.
  • Upon entering a training session, participants instantly get access to all the tools, materials, and exercises that the instructor prepared for them in advance.
  • When participants switch their browser to "full-screen" mode, the cloud Windows or Linux environment fills the entire screen, so it doesn't feel like an OS environment inside a browser—it feels like a full-fledged OS running on the user's laptop.
  • Participants can take part in training sessions from the comfort of their home or office.
     

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