What DaDesktop is NOT
DaDesktop is a type of software that doesn’t fit neatly into any existing category. Sometimes it’s easier to explain what DaDesktop is by describing what it isn’t and how it stands apart.
Online Conference
Is DaDesktop Online Conference software like Zoom or Teams?
Typically, you’d use Zoom, Teams, Skype, or WeChat alongside DaDesktop.
DaDesktop might eventually get built-in conferencing software, but that’s not a priority right now.
What is similar between let us say Zoom and DaDesktop?
Both offer basic chat functionality.
Public Cloud
Is DaDesktop like AWS, Google Cloud, Azure or Aliyun?
Public cloud or computing cloud platforms are built to host applications. DaDesktop, on the other hand, is built for people to work with remote desktops.
What is similar between AWS and DaDesktop?
From a user’s perspective, there aren’t many similarities. Both allow users to access a remote machine and run software on it. AWS EC2 is built for system administrators, while DaDesktop is built for training participants, trainers, course coordinators, and management.
Some companies still use AWS or other clouds to deliver remote courses, although a typical public cloud tends to be more expensive, slower, and less convenient than DaDesktop. DaDesktop is designed for course delivery, not general computing.
Learning Management System (LMS)
Is DaDesktop like Moodle, Rise UP, Open edX or other LMS?
LMS platforms are focused on either supporting education, like university courses, or are designed for online learning. DaDesktop is currently built for instructor-led corporate training. Its target audience includes corporate employees, public servants, and so on. It’s not specifically designed for school or university students.
DaDesktop focuses on an instructor-led model of delivering courses, where the instructor is present throughout the session.
What is similar between LMS and DaDesktop?
DaDesktop includes a range of features that overlap with and even surpass those of a typical LMS.
With DaDesktop, a course administrator can enrol students, track attendance, monitor student engagement, check whether students are connected, or even record their screens during the course.
It lets you do all this in a largely automated way. For instance, a trainer doesn’t need to take attendance—the data’s already in the system. DaDesktop can record a user’s location, how long they stayed connected, which exercises they completed, which ones they didn’t, and so forth.
Participants who missed the course can watch recordings and practise in an identical environment to the one students used during the course.