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Classroom
Management
NetSupport School provides a
wealth of features to streamline
classroom management these
include :
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Power On or Off all
classroom computers from the
Teacher PC.
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Perform a Remote "Log off"
on all PCs.
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Send a Remote "Log in" to
all Student PCs at the
beginning of class.
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Blank Student Screens to
gain attention.
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Lock the Students Mouse and
Keyboard when instructing.
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Create custom classroom
layouts so the Teacher PC
represents the layout of the
physical classroom.
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Create individual Teacher
profiles to deliver the
specific features needed by
each teacher.
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Printer Management
NetSupport School features a
powerful print management
component allowing total control
over printer usage within the
classroom. Students can be
prevented from printing, can be
assigned page limits per lesson
or require Teacher
authorisation. Thresholds can be
applied for a lesson defining
maximum size of print jobs, auto
deletion rules and more.
The print management feature
supports multiple printers
within a classroom, prevents the
addition, deletion or
modification of existing
printers and provides printing
usage summaries as part of the
Student register.
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Device Management
NetSupport School also features
protection from external sources
for the duration of a class.
This includes preventing data
being copied to (or from) USB
devices and CD/DVD drives.
Rather than providing a crude
on/off policy that prevents
resources being utilised in the
classroom, the NetSupport School
protection allows data to still
be viewed on a USB Memory Stick
or CD if required, but prevents
files or data being copied to or
from or applications executed
from them.
NetSupport School also includes
Audio device management allowing
a Teacher to mute audio across
the class in a single action.
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Interactive Lesson Planner
Pre-Plan the scope of the lesson
and NetSupport School will
continue to advise the teacher
on time remaining, when the next
action is due and more. Lesson
plans can be created in advance
and utilised time and again.
Within the main Teacher console
a progress bar will advise the
teacher of the current activity,
activities due for the remainder
of the lesson and the overall
time remaining.
A
lesson plan is created by simply
dragging required elements from
a list menu of all available
NetSupport School features onto
the planner schedule and
specifying both a duration and
appropriate content for each
item.
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Student Register
NetSupport School now offers Student Registration where
additional user information can be captured. Having provided
the "Class Details" which includes Teachers Name, Lesson
Title and Room Number / Name, the Teacher can then select
the information that the Students will be required to
complete at the start of class including custom values. Once
collected a class attendance register can be produced and
printed or saved in a range of formats. With the Student
Register you can :-
- Request
standard and custom information from each Student at the
start of class.
- Save an
attendance register for future reporting.
- View a
contact summary for each Student at any point during a
lesson by using a "mouse over" of the Student icon.
- Use
customised icons for individual or groups of Students.
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Hand out and
Collect Files
With NetSupport School you can distribute files and data
from the Teacher PC to multiple Student workstations
simultaneously with a minimum of keystrokes and effort. You
can :-
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Transfer files to and from a selected PC in a single
action.
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Distribute files to multiple PCs in a single action.
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out files to all Students and automatically collect them
at the end of the lesson with each Students details
appended to their file.
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Lesson Timer
Countdown the class session with the new lesson timer
combined with an all new custom alerts feature, e.g. "10
minutes until end of lesson, save work now". Countdown timer
changes colour from Green
to Amber to
Red as the end
of the lesson approaches.
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Portable Teacher
While supported as a feature for some time, NetSupport
School now provides a "portable" folder containing all the
files needed to copy to a USB Memory device so that a
Teacher can be run directly from the device in any location.
This provides greater flexibility for Teacher's moving
between labs and ensures they have all the tools they need,
safely in their pocket.
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Auto Re-Connect
NetSupport School provides a fail safe during an active
lesson. If a Students computer disconnects for some reason
or is switched off, on restart the system will automatically
rejoing the active class if it is still running and all
previous settings will be re-applied. This prevents Students
deciding they wish to leave a lesson and do something else
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