The simplest way you can connect to your instance is using SSH (secure shell). If you are happy using the command line only there are some other software that has additional functionality, and looks better. There are many choices - just Google ‘windows ssh client’
The most commonly used program is PuTTy. https://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/~sgtatham/putty/latest.html
** The one we recommend is MobaXTerm.**
which gives you a very easy-to-use SSH program for Windows https://mobaxterm.mobatek.net/. It is a commercial product, but there is a free to use version which is perfectly usable. On the training PCs there should be a full version installed.
You can find instructions for both of these programs can be found here.
For some modules you will need a full graphical desktop connection. This is a bit more complicated to set up, but will give you a full graphical desktop environment to work on. For this we use X2go