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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- Before instructors can access Azure Lab Services they must work with the iSchool's Technology Services team to have a lab environment created in Azure and a base virtual machine setup for the instructor to configure and serve as a starting template --to be duplicated and distributed to each student in their course.
- 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.
Add Students to the Lab
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Sending invitation emails to Students
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Configuring
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Publish Lab Template
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When your template has been configured and stopped, you can then publish the updated template to your class.
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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.
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Quota for a user specifies the number of lab hours available to the user outside of the scheduled class time.
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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.
- On the Add users page, enter email addresses of users in separate lines or in a single line separated by semicolons. You can also copy/paste from a list or upload a CSV.
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Send 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>.
Please reach out to iSchool Tech Services for the follownig actions:
- Exporting Template
Scheduling an Asynchronous Lab Session
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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.
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- 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.