Located under the Recordings tab of a course, you now have the ability to manage your recordings/videos for the course page. This feature is currently in Beta, but you now have the ability to create Modules, edit and trim videos, amongst other features.
Trainers have the ability to change the resources that were originally provisioned for the Fresh-Start Desktop. This is useful when realizing that the course requires either more CPU, Memory or Storage requirements for additional programs and/or software.
In order to change these parameters, you must make sure that the Fresh-Start desktop is stopped before modifying these values. Select the gear and either "Stop" or "Force-Stop" the desktop.
When creating a course you can schedule the course for multiple course dates. This will allow you to customize the availability of the course for your participants, to help accommodate your schedule.
On the date portion of the course form, click "More dates" button. From here you will see a new date selection line added to the form.
You can add as many date ranges as you need, as long as they do not overlap with each other.
Course Chat is a feature that will help trainers, participants and support members communicate in regards to the course in session. It is a part of the training room.
To enroll into the course chat you can enter the training room. From there it will prompt you to join the course chat.
To access it any other time just click the chat icon at the top right of the training room.
As a Trainer you can record the Training Room, and record all participant's desktops. This feature is useful for recalling course content, or recounting issues that student's have during the course, which can help with troubleshooting both for the trainer's notes or development staff support.
Course VPN feature of (CVPN) is feature which allows desktops directly access each other.
This feature replaces "Turn off network isolation". In case of Network Isolation being off, desktops could communicate with any other desktop on a single server. It did not work communication between servers and data centres.
Course VPN allows communication between any desktop added to the specific course, regardless server and data centre.
After a course is completed, all the course machines, ie Fresh Start, Trainer and all Participant machines are all removed after a short period.
A feature has been added that allows these machines to be recovered from the 'Recycle Bin' a while after the machines have been removed from the course. The period that machines can be restored depends on a number of factors, server disk space etc, course usage and is not based on a set period, but we would expect machines should be recoverable normally at least a couple of months after the course is finished.
Each user has a number of parameters that can be changed in their account.
First click your user name at the top right hand of the screen, then 'My account' as shown.
Here is the 'My Account' page.
Please check each number for a description of each function
Creating an Organization is normally done with an organisation created with the same name as your username when you register.
However, it may be useful on occasion to create a new Organization, perhaps as a Company name, where there may be a number of users using DaDesktop from one company.
NB Creating Organization is a Super Admin feature only
A new feature that's been often requested is the ability to copy files from a Trainer's own laptop or desktop to within the DaDesktop machine. These files may be presentations, install ISOs to be used in a nested virtualisation system to enable several servers and desktops to be used, or just general files to be used with the particular training application.
