Transcript Use Netop Vision 7

to Get Control of those Rowdy Kids!
Elio L. Arteaga, MFA
Assistant Professor, Media Arts & Technology
DeVry University, Miramar Campus
May 19, 2011
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Classroom Management Software
Enables teachers to have complete control
over their classroom workstations.
•Share your screen in demonstration-mode
•Showcase exceptional student work on all computers
•Distribute and collect files or tests
•Add impact to presentations with Pointer
•Launch applications, files and web pages
•Get students' undivided attention with screen blanking
•Monitor and control student computer use and web-surfing
•Remote control over students’ computers
•Layout your classroom view and collect student names
•Help students quickly and discreetly with chat
•Wake up or shut down classroom computers
One teacher workstation, on which the Control
Panel is available. The teacher’s computer is also
displayed on the large monitors.
Each student workstation contains an installation of
the student/client software.
Boot-up computers and the software launches automatically. The teacher’s
Control Panel contains thumbnails showing each student’s screen.
Select one or more by marqueeing them or by Shift-clicking.
Vision will
always connect
to the default
classroom, and
remember
classrooms you
have recently
used so startup
is very quick.
•Demo
•Showcase Student
•Pointer
•Show Document
•Snap Viewer
•Start Application
•Stop All Applications/Blank Screen/Block Input/Stop
•Lock Web/Filter Web
•Live View/Remote Control
Share what is on your screen with the students in your classroom in
three different ways:
Full-screen takes up the entire student screen and locks
their keyboards and mice.
Windowed shows your demo in a window on the student
computers. Students still have control of their keyboards
and mice.
Minimized makes your desktop available as a button on
the taskbar on the student computers. Students have
access to the demonstration but are not required to view it
and remain in control of their mouse and keyboard.
Instead of sharing what is on your own screen with the entire classroom you can
choose a student computer and share that screen instead.
The student screen shows on all classroom computers, including the teacher’s, and
all other student keyboards and mice are locked.
A wide range of tools are available to highlight various parts of your presentation:
• Draw attention to areas of your using arrows and other shapes.
For example, use Arrow left
• Highlight an area of your screen using Oval spotlight
• Magnify or zoom areas of your screen using Oval magnifier
or Zoom
• Hide areas of your screen that student should not be seeing using Cover
All tools are conveniently located on a single toolbar: Experiment with them!
Share a document on your teacher computer with the student computers in your
classroom.
When you share a document, a copy of the document opens on each student
computer and the students each have a copy to update and edit.
Don’t use this; use DocSharing.
A viewer for your screenshots, taken in the View Panel.
You can start an application or open a specific Web page on selected student computers, for
example to demonstrate something or just to help students get started.
Select the application you want to share with your class, and you can let students have general
access to their computers while they use the application (Normal mode), or you can choose
that they should only be allowed to use the application that you start (Kiosk mode).
For example, if you start Microsoft Office Word in kiosk mode, students are limited to using
only that application. The students see only Microsoft Word on their desktop. They do not
have access to other applications: the Start menu is not available; the task bar at the bottom
of the screen is locked; and students cannot launch Windows Explorer to search for program
executable files. Kiosk mode gives students the tools they need without distractions.
Stop All Applications—stops all running applications on selected student
computers.
Blank Screen—locks the mouse and keyboard on student computers. When you
lock student computers, Vision replaces the student's desktop with a Vision bitmap
image that can be customized.
Block Input—blocks mouse and keyboard but the screen display does not change.
Stop—stops running functions, such as a demo or a remote control session.
Lock Web—controls student access to the internet so that they stay on task.
What the student actually sees
Filter Web—limits students’ web access to the sites that you define as appropriate
to each lesson. Displays the Site List Manager:
New Site List—Creates a folder (a list of allowed sites).
New Web Shortcut—A URL added to the allowed list Must add:
Cut / Copy / Paste / Delete
Edit—takes you back to the web shortcut window.
Import/Export—Once you’ve built a set of web shortcuts, export
them to a USB drive, then import them at the beginning of each
class session (if Deep Freeze is enabled on the computer).
Preview—shows/hides the Preview Pane.
Live View—shows a selected student's computer activity in near real-time.
You will not be able to control their mouse and keyboard, but you can lock the
student's keyboard and mouse.
Remote Control—You can take control of a student computer in order to
demonstrate a procedure, or to start or close a program for that student.
Vision connects to the student computer and opens the Remote Control window,
which displays the student's screen. The student does not have access to the mouse
or keyboard while you have remote control of the computer, unless you grant the
student access.
•Thumbnails/Perspective/Details
•Classroom Monitor
•Label Type
•Sort by Label/Lock Layout
•Full Screen/Zoom/100%
•Shortcut bar
•Chat
•Snapshot
Thumbnails/Perspective/Details
Thumbnails
Perspective
Shows a scrolling view of all computers in the classroom. The
classroom monitor views are larger in size than the thumbnail
view. Like a security cam, the views switch every few seconds,
and you can control the speed of the scroll.
Display either the workstation IDs or the students’ login names
under the thumbnails.
Sort by Label—sort thumbnails alphabetically.
Lock Layout—prevent changes to the thumbnail layout.
Full Screen—makes window occupy the full space of the display.
Zoom—Change the size of the thumbnails (I like 150%).
100%—Restores thumbnails to original size.
Shortcut Bar—Shows or hides the shortcut bar on the right side
of the display. Notice the familiar icons.
Chat—Initiate a chat with students.
Snapshot—Options for taking snapshots and opening/saving/
printing them.
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Cut / Copy / Paste
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*Full screen snapshot
*Windowed snapshot
*Area defined by marqueeing
Import / Export
Acquire from Camera or Scanner
•Connect/Disconnect from Classroom
•Join
•Dismiss
•Request Name
•Lock/Unlock
•Shutdown/Wakeup/Restart/Log-off
Connect/Disconnect (teacher’s computer) from Classroom
Join—add a computer to the classroom
Dismiss—remove a computer from the classroom
Request Name—requests students to give their names. This is
not necessary in our lab, as when the students log in, they give
their name, and this is available under View (panel): Label Type.
Edit Details—enables teacher to add a comment to the
student’s thumbnail.
By default, students do not have access to changing general
Control Panel settings on their own computers.
Unlock—to allow students to change their Control Panel settings.
Lock—to re-lock Control Panel settings so that they can’t be changed.
Shut Down—shuts down selected computers. This is useful at end of the day
or when your class no longer needs to use computers.
Wake Up—student computers are woken up by a network message.
Restart—turns off selected student computers and then they’re automatically
turned back on. This can, for example, be useful when you have installed new
software or changed computer settings.
Log Off—closes down all programs running on the classroom computers and
logs off the students who are currently logged on. Computers then display the
Windows logon screen and are available for new users to log on.
The File Panel is the least used. IT has already set up the classroom for you.
Getting Started
http://www.netop.com/landing/edu/tutorials-getting-started.htm
Beyond the Basics
http://www.netop.com/landing/edu/tutorials-beyond-the-basics.htm
Tech Support
http://www.netop.com/landing/edu/tutorials-technical-support.htm
Documents
http://www.netop.com/support/technical-support/netop-vision7.htm#c16926
Classroom Management Community Forum
http://eduforum.netop.com/
Elio L. Arteaga, MFA
Assistant Professor, College of Media Arts & Technology
DeVry University, Miramar Campus
[email protected]
954-499-9644
Now go out there and get control of those rowdy kids!