a green-IT solution for educational institutes
Green University is a seat of learning and a facility that creates a healthy environment that is conducive to learning while optimally utilizing energy, resources and money. – Niyasys Technologies.
togdi™ is an integrated solution for Grid Programming, Virtualization, Lab Management, IT Administration, Courseware Management and green-IT for Education Sector. It saves capital expenditure by about 65% and operational expenditure by 75-85% for institutes using traditional desktops. For a college using 500 traditional desktops, the electric power saved by togdi solution can be sufficient to power 500 village households or 200 urban households. Power saved is more valuable than power generated!!!
Key Features of togdi
IT Administration: Manage system administration of desktops and servers, and OS and all applications software easily using togdi.
Realistic Virtual Machines: The togdi helps you to work in virtual machines where you would feel like working on the real physical machines, and hence it is called a totally green desktop infrastructure (togdi).
Revision and Comparison of Virtual Machines: This feature enables you to keep track of modified data or newly installed applications on the virtual machine, which is very helpful in choosing the required version of virtual machine at any point of time. You can compare different virtual machines for their OS and Applications, etc.
e-learning: Delivering learning materials (written by teachers or purchased or downloaded legal copies) will now be easy by using togdi. Teachers can share their materials to the students online.
Remote Diagnostics: Teachers, sitting at their desk, can now access the desktop screen of students and can do remote diagnosis of the problem student is facing. This feature helps administrators too to remotely perform desktop or application trouble shooting for multiple users.
e-Notice Board: Students and teachers can have glance of the notice board on their green desktop. Save paper and avoid printing and posting notices in each of the notice boards across the campus. The notice board appears before the user’s logon screen, so every user will be able to see the notice board without failure.
Demo Mode: togdi provides a demonstration mode feature for the teacher. The faculty can now turn any togdi green desktop into a demonstration machine and there-by all the students will be able to view the same screen on which the faculty is explaining a concept. This feature helps teacher and students interact in a more efficient and practical manner.
Examination Mode: Without formatting the existing desktops every time, in order to have a clean environment for examination purpose, togdi will help creating a fresh examination setup onetime and auto-provision it as required for multiple students. This will greatly help in creating and configuring desktops specifically for examination purpose where risks like students using the reading material from the same machines, intentionally or unintentionally, can be avoided.
Asset Management: Management of assets will become extremely simplistic using togdi. All togdi green desktops along with their versions can be viewed from a single screen. This helps in maintaining the records of the total machines present in the institute at any given point in time.
Audit Reporting: Using togdi, administrator will be able to generate multiple audit reports. Audit will also disclose login & logout times and from which IP address the users have logged in.
Access Privileges: Using togdi, the administrator can specify the access privileges for the teachers and students so that they will be restricted to perform only authorized actions.
Simple User Interface: The web graphical user interface provided in togdi is designed in a user friendly way, using the colors which consume less power.
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