TU's Virtual Workspace

Overview

TU's Virtual Workspace (VW) is a web-based, remote access product that allows you to remotely access the Towson Student Desktop, your H: drive and published applications from virtually any computer with an Internet connection and a browser. VW provides a Windows 10 desktop (even if your local computer is not running Windows). When using the VW for the first time, software may need to be installed.

More information about the Towson's Virtual Workspace is available at https://www.towson.edu/technology/software/virtualworkspace.html. Need Help with TU VW? Contact OTS Student Computing Services https://www.towson.edu/technology/studentservices/

Important Note: When you use TU's VW, you are running a virtual computer (with its own operating system and storage) on your local PC, Mac, etc. (with its own operating system and storage). This means you have both a local computer with a desktop and TU's virtual computer with its own desktop running on the same machine. It is important to realize that your local desktop is different and separate from your TU virtual desktop. For example if you save a file to your TU VW desktop you CANNOT directly access it from your local desktop and vice versa.

Below is an example of how to use TU's VW to run MS Paint to create and save an image file and then submit that file in Blackboard. Everything is completed within the TU Virtual Workspace.

Procedure

Open and login to TU's Virtual Workspace (https://desktop.towson.edu).
Open the Student Desktop.
Your VW desktop functions much like any Windows 10 computer. It has its own desktop, browsers, applications, etc. Notice that you will see 2 task bars at the bottom of the example TU VW screen below. The task bar on top is for the TU VW desktop. The task bar on the bottom is from the local computer (this task bar will vary depending if your local computer is running Windows, Mac, etc.).
The Windows Start menu can be used to start applications. MS Paint is being started in example below.
In the example below, Paint has been used to create a smiley face image (a rough one :) and the .png file is being saved to the TU VW desktop.
Notice the MySmileyFace.png file is now located on the TU VW desktop.
To submit the assignment file, log in to Blackboard from the TU VW desktop and submit the file saved on your TU VW desktop (MySmileyFace in this example).
When finished, sign out of your TU VW desktop.