What DaDesktop is NOT
DaDesktop is a piece of software that doesn’t yet fit neatly into any existing category. Sometimes, it’s simpler to explain what DaDesktop is by clarifying what it is not and how it sets itself apart.
Online Conference
Is DaDesktop an online conferencing tool like Zoom or Teams?
Usually, you would need to use Zoom, Teams, Skype, or WeChat alongside DaDesktop to communicate.
DaDesktop might one day include built-in conferencing, but that’s not a priority at the moment.
What do Zoom and DaDesktop have in common?
Both offer basic chat features.
Public Cloud
Is DaDesktop similar to AWS, Google Cloud, Azure, or Aliyun?
Public cloud platforms are built to host applications, whereas DaDesktop is built for people to work on remote desktops.
What similarities exist between AWS and DaDesktop?
From a user’s point of view, there aren’t many parallels. Both let you access a remote machine and run software on it. AWS EC2 is aimed at system administrators, while DaDesktop is designed with training participants, trainers, course coordinators, and management in mind.
Some companies still rely on AWS or other cloud services for remote course delivery, even though a typical public cloud tends to be more costly, slower, and less convenient than DaDesktop. DaDesktop is purpose-built for course delivery, not general-purpose computing.
Learning Management System (LMS)
Is DaDesktop like Moodle, Rise UP, Open edX, or other LMS platforms?
LMS platforms focus mainly on supporting education—such as university courses—or are built for online learning. DaDesktop, on the other hand, is currently tailored for instructor-led corporate training. Its target audience includes corporate and government staff, rather than school or university students.
DaDesktop centres on an instructor-led approach to course delivery, where the instructor is actively present throughout the session.
What do LMS platforms and DaDesktop share?
DaDesktop includes a range of features that overlap with those of an LMS—and in fact, go beyond them.
With DaDesktop, a course administrator can enrol students, monitor their attendance, check engagement levels, see whether students are connected, and even record their screens during the course.
This works in a largely automated fashion. For example, trainers no longer need to take attendance manually—the data is already in the system. DaDesktop can record a user’s location, how long they stayed connected, which exercises they completed, which ones they skipped, and so forth.
Participants who miss the course can watch recordings and practise in an environment identical to the one used live by other students.