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PDF Lab Manuals VMware Learning Platform now supports the PDF document format for student lab manuals. This feature enables content creators to use external authoring tools to develop lab manuals for use in VMware Learning Platform. In addition, it provides customers who have preexisting content an additional import option. Go to Lab Management > Lab Resources > Create Lab Resource. Detailed Billing The new billing dashboard provides granular usage metering of on-demand service usage. This dashboard enables Tenant Administrators to optimize usage of the service to help control cost. The new billing dashboard is available in the Tenant Management module > Billing. Lab Replication With replicas, a Tenant Administrator can easily and reliably replicate vApp Lab Templates within the same region or to other geographical regions throughout the cloud. This feature helps enable several key use cases including distributing templates for high availability, remote backups, and improving performance for students by providing labs in-region. Create User during Entitlement Creation This functionality introduces the ability to create a user during the entitlement creation process, without the need for the user to register for or create an account in VMware Learning Platform. This feature can be useful in one-time lab use situations, or to provide a quick hands-on demo without having the user go through the standard registration process. Class Self-Registration Instructors now have the capability to enable a class for student self-registration. This feature is advantageous in scenarios where an instructor may not have the student roster well in advance of a scheduled class. During class creation the instructor simply configures the number of seats the class is intended to support, and then provides their students with a self-registration URL. No account creation is required beforehand. Remember to keep a lookout for the new Admin User Interface if you aren’t already using it, as the old UI will be deprecated within the next few weeks! Reference link: What's New in VMware Learning Platform

We are happy to introduce pdf manual support with VMware learning Platform. A manual in VLP can be created using screen-steps, Microsoft word import and a raw pdf. Steps to enable pdf manual: Upload a pdf to lab resources in tenant admin Select the pdf resource in the lab (Make sure there is no manual attached to lab) Start the lab and the pdf will be rendered within the manual itself.

Video #1 - Lab Builder Overview - YouTube Video #2 - How to Create a Lab - YouTube Video #3 - Lab Management Features - YouTube Video #4 - How to Create a class - YouTube ​ Video #5 - Student & Instructor Interfaces - YouTube

VMware Learning Platform is a cutting edge application that uses some newer features that may not be supported by your browser. VLP gives an option to run a compatibility check when user starts the lab. This can be enabled by tenant administrators from Tenant Settings -> General options – “Auto run compatibility checker when user starts the lab”. If enabled, when a user starts a lab, the system prompts the user to choose whether to run a compatibility check. When run, the compatibility check shows and saves a report. Below parameters are verified when a Compatibility check is run by a user: Cookies are a basic feature of the web used on most web sites. This application uses cookies to keep you logged in and track your active session. Web Storage (localStorage and sessionStorage) an HTML5 feature that provides the ability to store some semi-persistent information on your computer. Web Storage is used throughout the application to save information that improves your experience. Canvas is an HTML5 feature that enables dynamic generation of images in your browser. This application requires Canvas. This application requires Canvas. WebSocket is an HTML5 feature enables websites to communicate over a full-duplex network channel. This application requires WebSockets. A Web Proxy is a server that acts as an intermediary for requests from clients (browsers) seeking resources from other servers. This application works best when a web proxy is not used. Supported Browsers: FireFox 13+ Chrome 18+ Safari 6+ Internet Explorer 11 Microsoft Edge Supported Devices: Apple iPad Bandwidth:           The speed test will help us evaluate any potential performance issues you are having with VMware Learning Platform that may be related to network bottlenecks. The test will be run three           times, connecting to a different server each time. It first tests latency (network delay) and then speed (network bandwidth).           Recommended Scores            Latency - A good latency score would be less than 300 ms; the lower the better            Speed - A good speed score would be greater than 1.5Mb/s; the higher the better