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Azure Lab Services is a cloud based classroom enabling students and instructors to access virtual machines (VM's) for lab assignments within iSchool courses. If you are an instructor for an iSchool (IST) course and are interested in having a VM provisioned for your students, please contact iSchool's Technology Services team by emailing ischoolit@ot.syr.edu.

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Warning

Quota for a user specifies the number of lab hours available to the user outside of the scheduled class time.

  • When an educator turns on a student VM, quota for the student isn't affected.
  • Each class section is budgeted and charged based on 150 quota hours per week assigned to each student for the entire duration of the class.  
  • Please do not change the total quota of your class.  IT provides reports on lab spending and will investigate usage that exceeds normal costs.

Important Information

  • As mentioned above, please manage the quota hours for your students and lab according to the needs and staying within budget.
  • Template VMs incur cost when running, so ensure that the template VM is shutdown when you don’t need it to be running.
  • Automatic shutdown & disconnect options should always be configured as such:

  • Please reach out to ischoolit@ot.syr.edu with any issues or questions regarding Azure Lab Services.
    • Exporting  a modified Lab Template. This request can be triggered by a sudden change in the lab workflow. The change resulted in a new lab deployment to all sections of a course.

    • Scheduling an Asynchronous Lab Session. This request can be triggered by the need to speed up the boot up process if the Instructor have a planned lab session during a class hours.

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