Accessibility
Enable teachers and students to access educational resources in any format from any device.
PARALLELS RAS FOR INDUSTRIES
Provide Virtual Learning with Parallels RAS
- Give students and faculty secure access to desktops and applications they need on campus or off, from virtually any device.
- Enhance security by centralizing, monitoring and restricting access to data on and off-campus.
- Keep existing devices useful longer by delivering Windows applications and desktops to aging PCs, Chromebooks, tablets, and other supported endpoints. Schools can delay hardware replacements that are not yet necessary.
- Deliver application access and VDI through one all-inclusive Parallels RAS license without paying separately for core RAS capabilities.
Improve Your Virtual Learning
Infrastructure with Parallels RAS
Security
Provide staff and students with secure access to their applications and desktops from any location.
Mobility
Equip students with the digital tools for learning and schoolwork by letting them use any device on the go.
Case Studies
Learn why educational institutions have chosen Parallels RAS for application delivery and virtual desktop infrastructure (VDI).
How a U.S. public sector organization replaced Citrix with Parallels Remote Application Server (RAS) to give staff secure, one-to-one access to assigned office desktops from anywhere.
Read MoreHow a higher education software-delivery provider integrated Parallels Remote Application Server (RAS) into its platform to give universities flexible access to Windows applications and virtual desktops across diverse devices and locations.
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Based in southern Australia, Henley High School was looking to modernize its IT offering and provide faculty and staff with the ability to access applications remotely. When the school switched to Parallels RAS, they noticed immediate benefits to staff capabilities and IT budgets. The school was able to provide secure, easy-to-use application publishing to staff devices without the need for complex setups—the transition was simple and seamless.
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London-based Orchard Hill College encountered challenges when trying to implement remote access to their employees. The college explored Citrix-based virtualization options; however, it was too costly and complex to set up. By choosing Parallels RAS, the college saved staff time and costs by eliminating the need for expensive add-ons and outside technical consultation.
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ESLA chose the award-winning virtualization solution Parallels RAS for two reasons. The first was because it was an inexpensive method for delivering education applications to students on tablets or small laptops. Secondly, it could deliver virtual desktops to teachers so they could work from home with ease. Parallels RAS provides ESLA with a powerful, comprehensive VDI solution at an affordable price. Students and staff enjoy more flexible virtual learning environments.
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Parallels RAS for Education
View the benefits of using Parallels RAS as an application delivery and VDI solution for the educational sector.
Centralize and Enhance Education IT
Parallels RAS centralizes the management of the IT infrastructure, making it
easier to secure and maintain.
Security features
Multifactor authentication, smart card support, advanced filtering, and customizable policies give IT teams more control over access to student, administrative, and financial aid systems and resources. These capabilities can support an institution’s broader FERPA and GLBA Safeguards Rule efforts. Staff and students can reach their LMS, Windows applications, and other published resources from supported devices without tying access to a campus computer lab.
Simplify multi-campus environments
Streamline management of single or multi-campus IT infrastructures from one easy-to-use management console. Students can easily access the educational resources they need to continue their studies. Bringing applications and desktop delivery into one management console reduces the amount of infrastructure IT teams have to manage. A single, all-inclusive Parallels RAS license also makes VDI costs easier to forecast as institutions plan annual technology budgets.
Ensure continuous learning
Reduce the risk of downtime and interruptions while increasing resources with out-of-the-box load balancing technology. Virtual application and desktop delivery will be fast and user-friendly for staff and students—irrespective of where they’re connecting from.
Virtual desktop automation
Create virtual desktops on the fly with PowerShell API, VDI templates and streamlined testing. IT staff can create linked clones to complete updates, which makes managing a large user group faster.
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How educational institutions can empower remote and hybrid work with VDI
Flexibility, Scalability and Improved User Experience
Improve the educational process for students and faculty with a flexible IT infrastructure.
Flexible virtual labs
Deliver test environments from any hypervisor or RDS, with the flexibility to return them to their original state after students have completed them. Moreover, students can receive on-demand access to virtual labs from their personal devices.
Centralized Windows environments can also reduce reliance on the operating system and processing power of endpoints. That gives institutions more room to extend the useful life of devices that do not meet Windows 11 requirements while they plan hardware refreshes on their own schedule.
Scale infrastructure up or down
Education IT infrastructures can be scaled up or down with auto-provisioning and auto-scaling capabilities. Parallels RAS can dynamically create, remove, release and load balance Windows Servers based on predefined criteria. Easily manage load spikes without any manual action from IT staff.
Single sign-on and AI-based session pre-launch
Single sign-on (SSO) facilitates faster login times by streamlining the management of user identities from different organizations without sharing the local identity database. By leveraging artificial intelligence (AI), Parallels RAS makes applications ready-to-use when needed, increasing efficiency. Staff and students do not have to wait for their desktops to load up in the mornings but can start working straight away.
Universal Printing
Ready out of the box and easy to use, Parallels RAS Universal Printing increases printing performance and response time when staff and students use local printers with server-based desktops or virtual applications. Print directly to printers without having to install local printer drivers.
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