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How can schools ensure that both staff and students are responsibly using the electronic devices that your school has purchased? The following reviewed solutions allow schools and teachers (including techno-phobes) in both lab and one-to-one device settings to ensure that:
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- students are not engaging in off-task behaviours
- staff can easily to disseminate lesson content to student devices
- both staff and students actually using the devices (monitoring individual machine usage levels)
- ensure that if staff and/or students who accidentally or intentionally leave machines turned on overnight, that these devices can be automatically shut down down at set times to save money and to also increase the life of each machine.
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NetSupport School
NetSupport Schools for Windows, Chromebook (student | tutor), iOS (student | tutor) and Android (student | tutor) is a paid (with a free 30-day trial available) management solution that gives teachers the ability to simultaneously instruct and visually/audibly monitor, as well as interact with their students, individually, as a pre-defined group or to the whole class.
NetSupport Schools also contains a customised testing suite, dedicated technician console, the ability to shutdown and control any application or PC, manage student printing, digital student revision aids, lesson planning tools and the option for teachers to reward students for good effort. It also contains the ability to stop data being copied from a computer onto a USB, DVD or CD.
Watch the videos below and then click here to access easy-to-read detailed overviews of the many other features of NetSupport Schools.
NetSupport School
NetSupport Schools also contains a customised testing suite, dedicated technician console, the ability to shutdown and control any application or PC, manage student printing, digital student revision aids, lesson planning tools and the option for teachers to reward students for good effort. It also contains the ability to stop data being copied from a computer onto a USB, DVD or CD.
Watch the videos below and then click here to access easy-to-read detailed overviews of the many other features of NetSupport Schools.
NetSupport School
NetSupport School for Android and iOS
The following video demonstrates the Tutor version of NetSupport School.
NetSupport for Chromebook
NetSupport Assist
NetSupport Assist for Linux & Mac is a paid (with a free 30-day trial available) easy-to-use classroom management software. NetSupport Assist enables schools to:
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- monitor and view student activity to reduce off-task behaviours
- remote control computers
- disseminate lesson content
- conduct student polls/surveys
- open safe individual and group chat windows
- transfer files to students from a teacher's device
- send and collect files for collation and marking
- manage the shutdown times of computers
- control internet usage
- create attendance reports as students log in.
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AB Tutor
AB Tutor is a paid (with a free 30-day trial available) solution that when installed on a teacher's laptop/PC, allows teachers to both monitor student use and disseminate lesson content to student devices. For schools concerned about school computers being left on over night, costing the school money, AB Tutor also allows for IT Administrators and teachers to set times to activate the shutdown sequence on school-based devices.
Watch the video below for more information and then visit the AB Tutor website to learn more.
Watch the video below for more information and then visit the AB Tutor website to learn more.
Impero Education Pro
Impero Education Pro is a paid (with a 14-day free trial available) network management, desktop management and classroom management software for educational settings.
Impero Education Pro allows schools and teachers to:
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Impero Education Pro allows schools and teachers to:
- monitor and restrict student usage, including setting printing limits
- lock, block and broadcast screens remotely
- disseminate lesson content
- monitor bandwidth usage to increase internet speeds
- set times to activate the shutdown sequence on school-based devices to save schools money and then generate reports to show cost savings
- remote control and support an unlimited number of computers
- manage inventory via monitoring the age and state of devices as well as being able to access usage levels of each device (to rotate/redeploy unused/under-used machines or monitor a teacher's/class' use of electronic devices in their classroom to see whether staff and students are actually using purchased devices enough to justify the purchase/presence of those devices in their classroom).
Watch the video below to learn more and then visit the Impero website top learn more.