Azure Lab Services vs. Practice Labs

Azure Lab Services is incredibly beneficial to our school board as a replacement for high-end graphics workstations needed for courses utilizing 3d graphics - the Autodesk and Adobe suites of products. The devices have a cost that is considerably higher than our line of business devices. These high-end devices are designated only for use with those courses meaning that the devices remained underutilized. Azure Lab Services isn't a good replacement for regular workloads as the overhead for management is considerable compared to regular devices.

Incentivized

It works well to explain basic concepts to students, and helps them understand these concepts by a step by step process in the lab. But it does not really challenge the students into thinking for themselves or help them gain better skills, it only helps them understand a concept. Due to its slow speed it does prove difficult to use.

Incentivized

• 3d Graphics powered machines
• Ease of deployment
• Ease of Access
• Ease of Management

Incentivized

• Clear steps
• Large number of labs
• Easy to use

Incentivized

• Better organization integration
• improve integration with MECM/System Center/Intune
• Improve HTML5 interface

Incentivized

• Needs to be more efficient
• The labs need to be more challenging
• It needs to have a more stable connection

Incentivized

Azure Virtual Desktop is an excellent tool for extending your existing infrastructure to the cloud and providing the same experience to users in both on-premises and virtual environments. Azure Lab Services, with its quicker setup time, and lack of connection to existing domains provides the ability to quickly spin up virtual environments for use for experimentation, learning, or delivering production resources.

Incentivized

Practice labs provides better steps for solving labs but due to its inefficiency and slow connection which leads to most students getting frustrated and dropping the labs. However on the other hand practice labs makes it easier to grade multiple students and integrates with canvas very easily.

Incentivized

• Reduced Capital Costs for 3d Workloads
• Ability to transition to Hybrid or Learn@Home and provide curriculum resources
• HTML FrontEnd provides ease of use from any HTML5 device

Incentivized

• Slow connections
• Very basic labs
• Crashes often

Incentivized