Continue Using Your Desktop After the Course Ends

One handy capability of DaDesktop is letting course participants easily keep their course machine for practice after the course wraps up. Before the course is over, an email asks participants whether they’d like to retain access to their desktop once the course finishes.

 

Normally, each participant’s course desktop is removed shortly after the course concludes. If you want to hold onto yours to continue practicing the labs, you can clone your course desktop into a 'Standalone Desktop' for later use.

Simply go to your Course, then your Desktop machine, and click the 'Use desktop after course' button next to it.

 

DaDesktop then walks you through the straightforward steps and lets you 'Enable' the cloning process.

Once enabled, you’ll see the following displayed next to your course machine

When the course is over, access your Standalone machine by clicking the Standalones menu at the top of the screen.

Machines left idle for a month will be taken down, but an advance email notice gives users plenty of warning so they can choose to keep any Standalone machines they’re using.

For details on managing how long your Standalone machine stays available, please see this page.