Recommended Classroom management software for workshops/labs

[baronne]

We run workshops or labs for our customers and am interested to know what is used in the education space ... I haven't been in the education industry for quite some time, but I thought I would come here to ask the question. Essentially we want an easy to manage service (cloud preferred, but will host ourselves if necessary). Some of the features we are looking for:

- ability to deploying workshops/labs (I guess like a classroom)

- schedule deployment to start and end at specific dates (vm's are stopped and destroyed when workshop/lab is over)

- ability to send invites to participants so they can access their desktop (which they will use for the duration of the workshop)

- ability to easily manage custom images of the desktop (with our own custom software installed)

- control/lock down desktop for participants

- instructor remote access to assist participants

- vm's are kept secure and up to date with updates/patches etc.

 

I figure these sort of things would be bread and butter in the classroom/education space. What tools/services do you use? Do you hand roll yourself? Do you use cloud services like AWS or Azure? Any open source / free tools?

 

Any recommendations would be welcome!

thanks!