The Training and Development Agency for Schools (TDA) will be working with BTL and AlphaPlus to develop content for the assessment of Qualified Teacher Status skills.  Practice material available online demonstrates the use of BTL’s Virtual Desktop, a Flash-based simulated desktop which can provide a secure, locked-down replication of a desktop environment complete with replicated web browser and email.  The live version also disables right mouse clicks and keyboard shortcuts.  You can read more about this work here, and it’s well worth trying out the practice material to see the simulated desktop in action and its use as a training and assessment environment.