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2. The University of West Florida eDesktops for eLearners Sylvia Maxwell & Michael White

3. The University of West Florida

4. Why a virtual lab? Support university efforts to expand and enhance online courses Make the same resources available to online students Reduce university software costs

5. Key Features Access university licensed software Available from any computer with an Internet connection Save work to central storage or your local hard drive Ability to print

6. Meet eD Branded eDesktop (nicknamed “eD”) Accessed via UWF portal (Argus)

7. How did we do it? Softricity Terminal services Software license servers

9. Where are we now? Deployed enterprise-wide January 2007 Expanded infrastructure to serve –Physical labs –Faculty and staff desktops Enhanced curriculum Software monitoring –Collecting usage statistics –Tracking licenses

10. Questions? Sylvia Maxwell smaxwell@uwf.edu 850 474-2972 Michael White mwhite@uwf.edu 850 473-7234 University of West Florida 11000 University Parkway Building 37 Pensacola, Fl 32514