Work with Your Desktop After the Course Concludes

A handy aspect of DaDesktop is that attendees can seamlessly keep working on their course machine for practice even after the session ends. Shortly before the course concludes, participants receive an email asking if they'd like continued access to their desktop for further practice.

 

Typically, each participant's course desktop is deleted shortly after the course wraps up. If you'd like to preserve your environment to continue practicing the lab exercises, you can duplicate your course desktop into a 'Standalone Desktop' for later use.

Then, go to your Course, find your Desktop machine, and click the 'Use desktop after course' button beside your machine.

 

DaDesktop will then guide you through a straightforward process and let you 'Enable' the cloning.

After enabling, a confirmation message will appear alongside your course machine

When the course is over, you can get to your Standalone machine by clicking the Standalones menu at the top of the screen.

Standalone machines that remain idle for a month are automatically deleted, but a heads-up email is sent beforehand to give you time to take action if you want to keep using them.

For more information on managing the retention of your Standalone machine, check out this page.