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Virtual desktops

Category: Information management and analysisn

Description:
Virtual desktops are a computing approach that allows users to remotely connect to and control a specific computer system. The main function of RDP is to allow interaction with a desktop or application on a remote computer as if you were physically present there. Thanks to this technology, offered by the Information and Communication Technologies (ICT) Service of the University of La Laguna, students and faculty at our university will be able to access a virtual desktop through their device and take advantage of these desktops for teaching practice. These virtual desktops allow faculty and students to connect from any device via the Internet and a browser. They offer a secure connection and always-updated machines, and provide a convenient environment for faculty to conduct their practice, whether in person or remotely. For the institution, however, this technology allows for better management of software licenses, accessible virtualization of applications installed on these desktops, facilitates the management of the institutional infrastructure, its machines and software updates, and overcomes the potential limitations of obsolete equipment present in classrooms by running its service on the servers of the virtual institutional infrastructure. To use it, you can access the ULL virtual desktop website, download it, and download it. UDS Client Follow the recommended steps and access the Windows or Linux environment. Everything added to this virtual desktop will disappear at the end of the session, so it's a good idea to save it to another device, share it via institutional email, or host it in a file organizer like Google Drive with institutional accounts.

Example:
A professor specializing in research methods and techniques in Social Sciences uses virtual desktops to provide students with access to SPSS. Thanks to the user license managed by the STIC, she can use this quantitative data analysis software to teach students how to perform different types of analyses without requiring any installation on their own devices and completely free of charge.

An engineering professor who requires the use of specialized technical software for his teaching practice suggests that his students connect to virtual desktops so as not to depend on the technical specifications of his students' different devices and to facilitate the execution of the various main programs for his area of knowledge that he has added, thanks to STIC, to the template of a specific environment.

Other features of the tool

Internet connection

Requires

Available for

Mobile devices and desktop browsers.

Cost

Gratuitous

Difficulty of use

Half

Language

Multilingual

License of use

The University of La Laguna offers this free service to its educational community.

Integration with Moodle

The VDI access link can be inserted into the virtual campus via a tag or directly via the URL resource.

Data protection report:  No favorable report related to data protection is required.