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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Azure Lab Services Instructor Overview:
Accessing Azure Lab Services:
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- On the left side navigation pane, select Template.
- Start your template.
- It will take a few minutes for your template to start up.
- When your template has finished starting, and changed to 'running', click Connect to Template in the toolbar.
- This will present you with a download screen, looking to save an RDP file.
- On windows you can open with the native Remote Desktop Connection application.
- Mac users will need to install the Microsoft Remote Desktop application from the Apple App store to use the RDP protocol.
- After you connect to your lab template, configure this template machine for your course. Any changes you make within this machine can be 'published' to the whole class --creating a base template image for your course.
- After you have made your changes, stop your running template by selecting the 'stop template' button in the toolbar.
- 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.
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