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Azure Lab Services is a cloud based classroom enabling students and instructors to access virtual machines (VM's) for lab assignments within iSchool courses. If you are an instructor for an iSchool (IST) course and are interested in having a VM provisioned for your students, please contact iSchool's Technology Services team by emailing ischoolit@ot.syr.edu.

Azure Lab Services for Instructor

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Accessing Azure Lab Services:

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After Technology Services has created the lab environment, you can log into Azure Lab services by navigating to labs.azure.com and providing your Syracuse University email address and password.

Configuring Your Lab Template

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• On the left side navigation pane, select Template.
•  Start your template.
  
  
  
  

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When an educator turns on a student VM, quota for the student isn't affected. Quota for a user specifies the number of lab hours available to the user outside of the scheduled class time. Each class section is budgeted and charged based on 10 quota hours assigned to each student for the entire duration of the class.  Please do not change the total quota of your class.  IT provides reports on lab spending and will investigate usage that exceeds normal costs.

Add users to the lab

• By default we will add all students from your class roster. You can add/remove as needed.

• Select Users on the left menu. By default, the Restrict access option is enabled. When this setting is on, a user can't register with the lab even if the user has the registration link unless the user is in the list of users. Only users in the list can register with the lab by using the registration link you send. In this procedure, you add users to the list. Alternatively, you can turn off Restrict access, which allows users to register with the lab as long as they have the registration link.

• Select Add users on the toolbar, and then select Add by email address.

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You will see names of users in the list after they are registered to the lab.

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Sending invitation emails to users

• Switch to the Users view if you are not on the page already, and select Invite all on the toolbar.
• On the Send invitation by email page, enter an optional message, and then select Send. The email automatically includes the registration link. You can get this registration link by selecting ... (ellipsis) on the toolbar, and Registration link.
• You see the status of invitation in the Users list. The status should change to Sending and then to Sent on <date>.

Interacting with Student VMs

Please reach out to iSchool Tech Services for the follownig actions:

• Exporting Template

• Scheduling an Asynchronous Lab Session

Important Info

• Template VMs incur cost when running, so ensure that the template VM is shutdown when you don’t need it to be running.
• Automatic shutdown & disconnect options should alway be checked and set at 15 minutes.

• Please reach out to ischoolit@ot.syr.edu with any issues or questions regarding Azure Lab Services.