{"id":4348,"date":"2015-01-14T09:34:31","date_gmt":"2015-01-14T14:34:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/carleton.ca\/ims\/?p=4348"},"modified":"2026-05-06T13:28:15","modified_gmt":"2026-05-06T17:28:15","slug":"vdi-now-accessible-campus","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/tls\/2015\/vdi-now-accessible-campus\/","title":{"rendered":"VDI now more accessible on campus"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<section class=\"w-screen px-6 cu-section cu-section--white ml-offset-center md:px-8 lg:px-14\">\n    <div class=\"space-y-6 cu-max-w-child-5xl  md:space-y-10 cu-prose-first-last\">\n\n            <div class=\"cu-textmedia flex flex-col lg:flex-row mx-auto gap-6 md:gap-10 my-6 md:my-12 first:mt-0 max-w-5xl\">\n        <div class=\"justify-start cu-textmedia-content cu-prose-first-last\" style=\"flex: 0 0 100%;\">\n            <header class=\"font-light prose-xl cu-pageheader md:prose-2xl cu-component-updated cu-prose-first-last\">\n                                    <h1 class=\"cu-prose-first-last font-semibold !mt-2 mb-4 md:mb-6 relative after:absolute after:h-px after:bottom-0 after:bg-cu-red after:left-px text-3xl md:text-4xl lg:text-5xl lg:leading-[3.5rem] pb-5 after:w-10 text-cu-black-700 not-prose\">\n                        VDI now more accessible on campus\n                    <\/h1>\n                \n                                \n                            <\/header>\n\n                    <\/div>\n\n            <\/div>\n\n    <\/div>\n<\/section>\n\n<p>Taking a class to one of Carleton&#8217;s public computer labs can sometimes be challenging or next to impossible. Many labs only sit 30 students, booking a lab requires that it be available at a specific time, and many public labs are not ideal teaching and learning spaces.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>But a new technology called Virtual Desktop Infrastructure (VDI) makes it possible for instructors and students to access<a href=\"http:\/\/carleton.ca\/ccs\/all-services\/computers\/site-licensed-software\/student-lab-software-2014\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"> Carleton&#8217;s standard student lab software<\/a> on any computing platform (Mac or Windows, tablet or laptop) from many of Carleton\u2019s classrooms.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>While it was initially only available in three classrooms on campus, VDI is now enabled in 70 classrooms (approximately 50 per cent) and seven professors have already started to incorporate this technology as a teaching tool into their courses this year.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Learn more about <a href=\"http:\/\/carleton.ca\/edc\/2014\/bringing-statistics-modern-age-spotlight-lise-paquet\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">one instructor&#8217;s experience with the benefits of VDI technology<\/a> and discover how you can <a href=\"http:\/\/carleton.ca\/itservicecatalogue\/services\/vdi\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">incorporate VDI into your courses<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Taking a class to one of Carleton&#8217;s public computer labs can sometimes be challenging or next to impossible. Many labs only sit 30 students, booking a lab requires that it be available at a specific time, and many public labs are not ideal teaching and learning spaces. But a new technology called Virtual Desktop Infrastructure [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4348","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"acf":{"cu_post_thumbnail":"null"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/tls\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4348","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/tls\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/tls\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/tls\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/tls\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4348"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/tls\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4348\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/tls\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4348"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/tls\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4348"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/tls\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4348"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}