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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.

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When your template has been configured and stopped, you can then publish the updated template to your class. This will delete all existing student machines and deploy a new set of machines based on the latest, published, template. The publish button is on the tool bar. Publishing a template, in a course of 30 students, takes roughly 1 hour.


Warning
Once you publish, you can't unpublish.
  • On the Publish template page, enter the number of virtual machines you want to create in the lab (based on your class roster), and then select Publish. 

  • Wait until the publishing is complete and then switch to the Virtual machines pool page by selecting Virtual machines on the left menu or by selecting Virtual machines tile.

  • Confirm that you see virtual machines that are in Unassigned state. These VMs are not assigned to students yet. They should be in Stopped state. You can start a student VM, connect to the VM, stop the VM, and delete the VM on this page. You can start them in this page or let your students start the VMs.

Interacting with Student VMs

  • Switch to the Virtual machines pool page by selecting Virtual machines on the left menu or by selecting Virtual machines tile.
  • You can start a student VM, connect to the VM, stop the VM, and delete the VM on this page. You can start them in this page or let your students start the VMs.


Warning

Quota for a user specifies the number of lab hours available to the user outside of the scheduled class time.

  • When an educator turns on a student VM, quota for the student isn't affected.
  • 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.


Important Information

  • As mentioned above, please manage the quota hours for your students and lab according to the needs and staying within budget.
  • 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.
    • Exporting  a modified Lab Template. This request can be triggered by a sudden change in the lab workflow. The change resulted in a new lab deployment to all sections of a course.

    • Scheduling an Asynchronous Lab Session. This request can be triggered by the need to speed up the boot up process if the Instructor have a planned lab session during a class hours.

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