The Cockpit dashboard is used to access multiple servers (or in this case, students' computers) to be able to do a myriad of things remotely. For example, if a teacher suspects a student of playing games while in class, then the IT administrator can set a CRON task to run in the background so that every five minutes a list of running processes is written to a .TXT file and uploaded to a network attached storage device. The admin can then check the file and let the teacher know if the student is playing any games such as Nexuiz during a lesson. The dashboard gives access to many computers all from one device.

Updates can be run from within Cockpit so that an IT admin can make certain that any students' or teachers' device is up-to-date, greatly decreasing the possibility of a virus or other malware wreaking havoc on a school's network. As more students and teachers bring flashdrives into school and as ransomware becomes ever more prevalent, Cockpit proves itself to be an incredibly powerful and handy tool that is not just for servers and data centers any longer.

Cockpit includes a terminal for each device so that specific and individualized commands can be run in real-time, in the background, on any users' device. With this capability, IT admins with a cursory understanding of the Linux command line can oftentimes diagnose and fix a students' or teachers' computer without having to leave their office, greatly, improving response time for problem solving in many cases and, in particular, regarding the more common issues. Programs such as HTOP can be run to diagnose memory or CPU hogs if a user complains of a system hanging and reboots can be triggered remotely as well if a users screen becomes unresponsive.