You should talk to the IT guys at UCL, they are providing ArcGIS on
their PC's.
Ken Clarke wrote:
>
> FAO: IT Technical staff at HE sites
>
> I am an IT Support Specialist at the London School of Economics. I
> provide IT support for GIS packages, in particular ArcGIS. I am
> currently researching ways of providing ArcGIS 9.1 software to
> students in a public PC room situation. We also use ArcGIS for
> teaching to large classes of students simultaneously. Historically
> all our student PCs have the same build of software. At the moment
> ArcGIS is not included due to its size and limited use at LSE. We do
> include some other GIS packages and an older version of ArcGIS.
>
> I need to find the most suitable way to provide access to ArcGIS for
> students. There is resistance to putting such a large software package
> on all student PCs. I have tried Windows Remote Desktop but I have had
> performance issues running with simultaneous multiple users. I am
> looking to find a suitable long term solution to providing ArcGIS in a
> student/teaching environment.
>
> I am interested in finding out what other education organisations do
> to provide access to ArcGIS? Are there any IT technical staff who are
> willing to answer some questions as to how they solved this problem.
> Are there any ESRI or other resources that may help me in solving
> this? We currently use Windows XP and ArcGIS 9.1.
>
> I hope this is an appropriate question for the forum.
>
> Thanks
>
> Ken Clarke
> IT Support Specialist
> IT Services
>
> London School of Economics
>
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