Standalone Desktops Overview

To begin with, what exactly does DaDesktop mean by a Standalone Desktop?

You can find an excellent overview of the various Desktop types here. In essence, a 'Standalone' desktop is a machine not tied to any course. It operates separately—available for use before a course starts, after it ends, or entirely on its own, independent of any course context.
This makes the Standalone exceptionally versatile.

 

 

 

Typical use cases for creating Standalone desktops:

1. Getting training course content ready for repeated reuse beyond a course, or kept on hand for whenever it's needed.
2. When you need a flexible environment running a different operating system (Linux, Windows) to experiment with ideas safely.
    

Key features:

1. Shared links let anyone with the link gain full access.
2. If the desktop isn't used, it shuts down automatically after 24 hours.

Cost details:

1. Creating a desktop costs nothing.
2. Starting a desktop incurs charges.
3. The cost varies by the number of units, determined by CPU, memory, and disk space. Windows machines carry an additional fee.
4. When you enrol in a course as either a student or trainer, you receive free credits that can be applied toward standalones.
5. If you don't connect to your standalone for more than a month, it will be deleted.

 

Handy usage tip:

To find cloned desktops, start with "clonefrom#" followed by the keyword to identify the original desktop source.