• Course Manager by Skytap overview
  • Instructor-led training overview
  • On-demand labs overview
• Preparing a template
  • Installing CMHelper on a VM
  • Installing CMSysHelper on a VM
• Creating a course
  • Adding learning content to a course
    • Editing a Manual
  • Adding lab actions to a course
  • Adding script packages to a course
  • Adding lifecycle scripts to a course
  • Editing a course
  • Deleting a course
  • Previewing the Learning Console
• Creating and managing instructor-led training events
  • Creating and scheduling an event
    • Adding learning content to an event
    • Customizing email messages for an event
    • Editing an event
    • Deleting an event
  • Preparing for the event
  • Delivering the event
  • Viewing the event activity summary
  • Using event scheduling
    • Scheduling a recurrent event
    • Scheduling a non-recurrent event
    • Viewing event schedules
    • Using delayed provisioning
• Creating and managing on-demand labs
  • Using consumption control measures
  • Creating a lab
    • Adding learning content to a lab
    • Deleting a lab
  • Managing labs
  • Using the request portal – a guide for Lab and Event Manager users
• Using the Learning Console – a guide for lab end users
  • Using the Manual in the Learning Console
  • Using Resources in the Learning Console
  • Using File Drop in the Learning Console
• Viewing Learning Console activity
• Managing your user account
• Administering Course Manager by Skytap
  • Managing users
  • Managing account settings
    • Editing an email body
  • Using tags with Course Manager
  • Using commands, scripts, and the Virtual Browser
  • Using custom data attributes
  • Using metadata attributes
  • Using the Course Manager API
  • Course Manager Reporting
  • Using Course Manager fields for Skytap reporting
• Course Manager FAQ

Using delayed provisioning with Course Manager events

By default, Course Manager provisions environments in Skytap as soon as you add participants to an event. With the delayed provisioning feature enabled, Course Manager attempts to provision participant environments closer to when the event is due to begin.

You can enable delayed provisioning by default using your account settings or for an individual event using Course Manager tags.

How delayed provisioning for events works

With delayed provisioning enabled for your events

• When you add a participant to an event sufficiently in advance of its start time, Course Manager doesn’t immediately provision the participant’s Skytap environment.
  • (Info) displays next to the participant name on the Course Manager event page.
  • If you point to (Info), one of the following messages displays, depending on participant type:
    • Instructor will be provisioned closer to the event’s start time.
    • Student will be provisioned closer to the event’s start time.
  • In the participant’s drop-down menu, the links to Open sharing portal, Open in Skytap, and Reprovision are dimmed.
• Course Manager periodically checks whether it’s time to provision the participant’s environment in Skytap.
• Once the participant is eligible for provisioning, Course Manager provisions the participant’s environment in Skytap.
• After Course Manager provisions the participant’s environment:
  • (Info) no longer displays next to the participant name.
  • In the participant’s drop-down menu, the links to Open sharing portal, Open in Skytap, and Reprovision are active.

Additional details

When delayed provisioning is enabled

• By default, environments are provisioned 72 hours before they’re scheduled to start for the first time.
  • For example, on Wednesday, you create an event scheduled to begin at 9:00 AM the following Monday and add one participant to it. Course Manager selects a start time of 8:00 AM on Monday for the participant’s environment. Since it is currently more than 72 hours before its start time, the Skytap environment isn’t provisioned. Course Manager provisions the participant’s environment at 8:00 AM on Friday.
• If you add participants closer to or after the event’s start time, their environments are provisioned immediately.
• Course Manager sends email invitations as soon as participants are added to the event. If a participant clicks the link in the invitation before the environment has been provisioned, the web page displays the message: Your lab is not yet available.
• If a participant’s environment hasn’t yet been provisioned, the participant’s template can’t be deleted unless a replacement has been designated. The replacement template must be from the same Skytap region.

• Course Manager checks provisioning eligibility on an hourly basis.

  It’s important that you monitor environments in Skytap to confirm they are provisioned according to schedule.