Eliminate Classroom Setup Hassles with Virtual Training
- Get more time for course delivery with virtual classrooms
- Launch an online learning program with hands-on experience
- Collaborate more effectively with your customers and students
Screencast: Virtual Training In the Cloud
Today's software buyers seek comprehensive hands-on training classes to get the most value out of their software investments and accelerate knowledge transfer. Training organizations are typically required to set up and maintain multiple training rooms with complex software, hardware and network configurations or physically ship mobile labs to customer sites. This is an expensive and time consuming task that often gets minimal IT support. This endeavor also distracts trainers from their core mission, which is to create engaging training classes and educate customers.
Finding Skytap has made provisioning very simple. I’ve used other cloud services, but they only offer big toolboxes where you are responsible for building out and customizing to your specific needs. Skytap’s solution enabled us to be up and running in a matter of minutes, and in the end, has enabled us to grow significantly against our competitors.Director of Engineering, Calypso
The dual challenge of setting up classroom environments and delivering training creates a dilemma for training managers: How do you deliver high quality training to your most valued customers, while lowering costs and IT resource needs?
Skytap's Virtual Training solution resolves this dilemma.
Skytap's Virtual Training empowers training organizations to take their existing classroom computer environments to the cloud without requiring any application rewrites. As a trainer, you can create your trainer-student machine configurations in the cloud in as little as 30 seconds using a web UI. This provides a 'hands-on' learning experience with 'learn from anywhere' flexibility for your customers and trainers.
As a training manager you can centrally manage all the classroom images, student and trainer access, usage, and security policies. Remotely connecting to any student virtual machine to take 'over the shoulder' access is fluidly delivered in a single mouse click. These features provide the cloud visibility and control you need to run your training business and provide virtual training on par with physical classroom delivery models.
Skytap Virtual Training solution can be used for a broad range of training scenarios, including:
- Virtual Training Rooms (replace physical machines and rooms)
- Remote Learning Classes
- New Hire Skills Assessment
- New ERP Application Roll-out Training
- Exchange, Lotus, SharePoint Migration Training
- Employee Skills Development
Top 5 Features and Benefits at a Glance
| Feature | Key Benefit |
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| Skytap Library with centralized classroom templates | Accelerate Training Delivery
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| Schedule Classes with Skytap Resource Links | Launch a Hands-on Distance Learning Program with Flexible Schedules
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| Remote Access Console | Collaborate More Effectively With Your Students
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| Quota, Usage Limits and Auto-Suspend | Reduce Costs
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| Projects, Groups and Roles | Enable Collaboration and Increase Productivity
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| And More... | Register for a complete demo. |
Accelerate Training Delivery with the Skytap Library
Using the Skytap Cloud Automation Platform, you can create a centralized library of existing classroom images from the training machines you use today without any code changes. Trainers can use the Skytap Cloud self-service web UI to provision new classrooms and run multiple classes instantly. Because Skytap is a cloud based service, you can deploy these classes and scale the number of virtual classrooms to match your business needs. Once a class is completed, student environments can be removed, or cloned for later re-use.
Launch a Hands-on Distance Learning Program with Flexible Schedules with Skytap Resource Links
Using Skytap Remote Access Links you can schedule training classes and provide secure web based access to each student with specific access rights. Each student can access the classroom image for which he/she is authorized from anywhere in the world securely with just a browser. Classes can be scheduled to run at specific times enabling you to manage your capacity efficiently and to provide flexibility to your students.
Collaborate More Effectively With Your Students with Skytap Remote Access Console
You can provide each student with their own custom learning environment in a physical classroom setup without having to go through a time consuming set up process. Students can access their classroom set-up with the Skytap Remote Access Client, a web-based console accessible through any modern web browser. The best part is they can also have that same experience from any location with internet connectivity. This enables training typically delivered in a physical environment to be transformed into a distance learning program. The Skytap Remote Access Console provides trainers with "over the shoulder" view of the entire virtual classroom allowing them to start, stop, view and suspend training to collaborate with the students and maximize the learning outcome. You can even provide shared access to a group of students to enable team collaboration and learning in a classroom breakout session.
Reduce Costs with Quota, Usage Limits and Auto-Suspend
Using Skytap's Projects, Groups and Roles features, training managers can create different groups of users, and share cloud resources via Projects. Project teams with multiple members can collaborate and create, review and approve classroom content. Each team member can be provided a specific role in the system with specific permissions to create, publish classrooms to students and teach.
By using the Skytap Cloud service, training organizations can scale up capacity on-demand and scale down when there is limited usage. This is a much better alternative than incurring capital costs for software and hardware that will cycle between periods of under-utilization and less than adequate capacity. Training managers can manage Skytap usage with trainer specific quota and usage limits. Skytap environments can also be configured to suspend automatically when not in use so that training usage perfectly matches training demand.
Enable Collaboration and Increase Productivity with Projects, Groups and Roles
Using Skytap's Projects, Groups and Roles features, Training managers can create different groups of users, and share cloud resources via Projects. Project teams with multiple members can collaborate and create, review and approve training content. Each team member can be provided a specific role in the system with specific permissions to create and publish classroom environments to students. Creating and sharing standardized student and classroom builds across your global training organization happens with a click of a button.
For an in-depth overview of Skytap's training solution, download the white paper on 'Reinventing the Virtual Classroom: Delivering Hands-On Training using Cloud Computing'.
