Eliminate score recording failures that may occur when using choppy internet connections.Entirely eliminate TestOut related bandwidth consumption.Make lab simulations behave more responsively on slow computers.Significantly reduce the internet bandwidth consumed by TestOut course material.Allow students in a classroom with low external internet bandwidth to more quickly load TestOut course videos, labs, fact sheets, and exam questions.You have the computer privileges to install the LabSim Accelerator on the machine which will function as a webserver.Įstablishing Expectations: This tool will:.You have a computer available, on the same subnet as the student machines, with plenty of hard drive space to download the TestOut course content.Video playback is choppy and buffering interruptions are common.You have less than 3 Mbps bandwidth available per student using LabSim at the same time, at a particular campus or location.You have a TestOut school administrator account.Qualifications: This tool may help your school if: LabSim account information, score data, and general LabSim files that are used by all courses, will still be served over the internet.

Once configured, students belonging to the school may log in normally and benefit from the content served over the local network. It allows the use of a network computer/server to locally cache TestOut course content, and serve that content over the local area network, rather than entirely over the internet. The LabSim Accelerator is a tool designed for schools with very limited internet bandwidth. That would make the average download speed of videos for each user in the classroom only 0.5 Mbps, which would make for an unpleasant viewing experience with frequent delays, while the videos buffered. Suppose you have 30 students in a classroom, who are all trying to watch their TestOut videos at the same time, but the internet bandwidth available to the classroom is only 15 Mbps. Testing the LabSim Accelerator's Functionality

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