What DaDesktop is NOT

DaDesktop is software which doesn't yet fit into a proper category. Sometimes it's easier to explain what DaDesktop is by saying what it isn't and how it differs.

Online Conference

Is DaDesktop Online Conference software like Zoom or Teams?

Typically, you'd need to use Zoom, Teams, Skype or WeChat to use DaDesktop.

DaDesktop may, in the future, have built-in conferencing software, but that is not a priority.

What is similar between let us say Zoom and DaDesktop?

Both offer rudimentary chat functionality.

Public Cloud 

Is DaDesktop like AWS, Google Cloud, Azure or Aliyun?

Public cloud, or cloud computing, is designed to host applications. DaDesktop is built for people to use remote desktops.

What is similar between AWS and DaDesktop?

From a user's perspective, there aren't many similarities. Both let users access a remote machine and run software on it. However, AWS EC2 is designed for system administrators, while DaDesktop is designed for training participants, trainers, course coordinators, and management.

Some companies still use AWS or other cloud services for remote course delivery, although the typical public cloud would be more expensive, slower, and less convenient than DaDesktop. DaDesktop is purpose-built for course delivery, not general computing.

Learning Management System (LMS)

Is DaDesktop like Moodle, Rise UP, Open edX or other LMS?

An LMS typically focusses on facilitating education, such as university courses, or is designed for online learning. DaDesktop, by contrast, is built for instructor-led corporate training. The target group would be corporate employees, government employees, and so forth. It isn't specifically designed for school or university students. 

DaDesktop focusses on an instructor-led method of delivering courses, where the instructor is present during the course delivery.

What is similar between LMS and DaDesktop?

DaDesktop has a number of features that overlap with an LMS and even surpass them.

With DaDesktop, a course administrator can enrol students, track their attendance, monitor student engagement, check whether students are connecting, or even record their screens during the course.

It allows you to do this mostly automatically. For example, a trainer needn't check attendance—the data is already in the system. DaDesktop can record a user's location, how long they were connected, which exercises they completed, which ones they didn't, and so forth.

Participants who missed the course can watch recordings and practise in the exact same environment as the students who attended.