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Software tools

For students

How to use the Virtual RDC

This document describes how to establish a connection to the Virtual RDC.

To establish an account on the VRDC, contact the VirtualRDC administrator.

Statistical Software
  • Mandatory software:
    • SAS (installed on VRDC).
    This is the main data manipulation tool used in this class.
  • Analysis software:
    Both are also on the RDC network

For remote participants (site admins only)

We have two documents for those setting up the remote classroom:
INFO 747 Quick Setup
A one-page PDF document for standard setup situations. Contains instructions for connecting both video and VNC, and has the VNC Viewer software attached to the PDF file.
How to set up a VNC Connection for the INFO 747 Class

This document describes in detail how to set-up a Virtual Network Connection on the classroom computer in order to view the class slides and demonstrations.