Heropa announces the latest release of Virtual Labs, their next generation IT practice labs platform for TAFE, University, and IT learning organisations.
Heropa’s Virtual Labs platform provides TAFEs and Universities with a fast, easy and secure method to create full-featured IT practice labs in the cloud. Using the platform, these organisations can increase student engagement and completion rates, while reducing the total cost of ownership. By using Virtual Labs, students gain unparalleled hands-on access to virtual environments from anywhere.
What's in the latest release:
As education moves from classrooms to online environments, student engagement and completion rates significantly decrease, with dropout rates as high as 80%.
As a result, this latest release of Virtual Labs has a strong focus on analytics, capturing student activity in real-time and providing dashboard reporting and scheduled engagement triggers that are completely customizable.
One of the key messages we received from visitors to our stand at the EduTech conference this year, was that they all struggled to get access to accurate detailed student activity information. By exposing these granular student metrics to course administrators, we have already seen significant increases in student engagement and retention rates.
Virtual Labs has always been very strong in providing students with an excellent experience, and now with the introduction of analytics on the platform, the course administrator experience is also greatly enhanced.
Jason Kinsella, Director at Heropa
Benefits of Heropa's Virtual IT Labs software include:
- All aspects are fully managed to ensure each student has a secure and predictable experience. This allows educators to focus on teaching, and not the management of the underlying technology.
- Labs can be scaled to match teaching needs and student numbers. Learning organisations need never be restricted by physical lab environments again. Everything is done on-demand, in the cloud.
- Security risks are eliminated by removing the need to grant access to an organisation’s internal infrastructure from untrusted traffic sources. Every student environment is fully isolated and secure.
- Significant cost savings can be realised compared to physical infrastructure deployments, by only paying for consumed resources.
About Heropa
Heropa has revolutionised how Registered Training Organisations (RTOs) deliver IT courses to their students. This Australian cloud provider established in 2010 provides a fast, easy and secure method to create full-featured virtual lab environments in the cloud. With their Virtual Labs platform, organisations can increase student engagement and completion rates, while reducing the total cost of ownership.
For more information, please contact:
Jason Kinsella
Tel: +61 421 733 465
