Description
Software for Networked Classrooms
NetOp School v5.0 puts teachers, lab instructors and corporate trainers center stage in networked classrooms or Internet-based virtual classrooms. This newest generation of classroom management software facilitates the seamless transition, from teaching to groups to interactive one-on-one instruction, and ensures that the teacher is in full control of classroom technology at all times.
With NetOp School for Windows, students located in your computer lab, across campus or anywhere in the world can log into a NetOp classroom over their network or via the new NetOp Class Server. Using NetOp School, a teacher can broadcast their screen, multimedia files, or any student's screen to other participants; record and playback screen sessions; markup or magnify a portion of the featured screen to highlight a lesson; monitor students as they work; restrict the use of applications and web sites; carry on bidirectional text or audio conversations and lectures; create, administer, monitor and automatically grade IMS compliant tests; or remote control a student PC for one-on-one instruction.
These features, along with many others found in NetOp School, provide instructors with unprecedented abilities to multi-task their activities while harnessing computer technology for improved interactivity and student learning. First introduced to U.S. educators and trainers in 1998, award-winning NetOp School has quickly become a staple of school districts seeking cost-effective software-only solutions for classroom management.
NetOp School Benefits
Increase Student Time-on-Task
NetOp School enables teachers to monitor and control every student’s computer activity from the convenience of their own PC. With NetOp, teachers know exactly what every student is working on. Using NetOp’s Thumbnail View a teacher can monitor the desktop of every student’s computer, all on one screen. To focus student attention, you can lock their keyboard and mouse during lectures or screen demonstrations; if a student needs assistance, simply take control of their computer with your own keyboard and mouse, just as if you were seated next to them, for one-on-one instruction or send them a private instant message.
Policy Control
NetOp enables teachers to allow or deny the use of selected applications and websites on student computers by creating administrative policies unique to their educational curriculum. This way, you can rest assured that your students aren’t wasting class time on games or the Internet.
Enhance Classroom Interaction
NetOp’s Broadcast feature enables a teacher to broadcast their screen or a student’s screen to one student or the entire classroom for detailed instruction and example. You can even record demonstrations for later playback, broadcast and control videos, project web cam images, create workgroups and monitored chat rooms for discussion, as well as two-way 16-bit audio chat for verbal assistance.
Construct a Variety of Tests and Surveys
NetOp’s new Test Center utility offers a very powerful tool for creating a multitude of IMS compliant tests from 10 different question types, including:
- Multiple Choice – one answer (Random or Static answering order)
- Multiple Choice – multiple answers (Random or Static answering order)
- Match Text
- Match Image
- Drop-down List
- Label Image
- Ordering
- Essay
- Q and A (auto-correct free text answers)
- Text completion dictation
Simplify Test Administration and Grading
NetOp’s new Test Center utility has a built in student response system that provides teachers & instructors with a powerful tool for producing, administering, and grading tests and surveys over a network connection. Now teachers can generate tests from a variety of IMS compliant question types, which puts the questions in an exportable XML format. Additional configurations enable teachers to set time limits on questions, get real-time reporting, administer auto-scoring for immediate test results, and even provide question resources, such as external web links and files.
Webcam Streaming
NetOp School offers web cam streaming capabilities to enable teachers and students to see one another in a distance learning scenario, or view physical examples and detailed illustrations for hands-on demonstrations. Now, with the use of a webcam, networked classroom attendees can see a real-time image of an object, demonstration or example right on their PC Screen – providing everyone with a front row seat.
Engage Your Students
With NetOp’s ‘Pass the Chalk’ feature, a teacher can pass off control of the broadcasted demonstration screen to students to enable them to collaborate on a demo session. This not only keeps their attention during discussions, but also provides an interactive learning environment where students are always engaged in the lesson at hand.
Easily Multi-Task Your Efforts
NetOp School enables teachers to take complete control of every computer in their networked classroom - load applications, reboot, log-out or turn off one or several student PCs simultaneously or distribute, launch, and control multi-media files - all from the comfort of your PC. Plus, NetOp enables you to create interactive lesson plans with links to multi-media files, URLs and demonstrations.
Easy to Install, Learn and Use
To provide easier navigation and usability, NetOp School now offers 1-2-3 Set-up Wizards that simplify some of the application’s more advanced features. Each wizard provides simple instructions for walking users through the necessary steps for configuring Teacher and Student modules, File Distribution and Collection, and the creation of tests.
Teacher Module - Tools to Keep you in Control
- Teacher Module – Tools to Keep you in Control
- Thumbnail View – View all students’ screens as thumbnails. Click on one, some or all students to start a NetOp session or activity. Sort or change the size and color depth of thumbnails to view up to 200 on a single screen.
- Activity View – Live overview of each student's use of programs and websites. The teacher can Close or Hide programs and sites on the fly. A History List logs all activity during class.
- NetOp Test Center – With NetOp’s Test Center utility teachers can generate tests from a variety of IMS compliant question types, including multiple choice, match text, match image, drop-down list, label image, ordering, essay, and even text completion dictation. Additional configurations enable teachers to set time limits on questions, get real-time reporting, administer auto-scoring for immediate test results, and even provide question resources, such as external web links and files. New - Test printing and grading options
- Application Policy Control – Allow/deny use of selected applications on student computers. Eliminate game playing, IM and more. Assign policies for each class, groups of students or even individuals.
- Web Policy Control – Allow/deny certain URLs on student PCs. For example you can deny the use of all URL's except the school's web site.
- Record & Replay – Record, or pre-record, screen sessions such as demos and lessons. Play them, including audio, for other classes or let students access them at a later date as a tutorial.
- Traveling Teacher Module – copy Teacher Module to a USB drive and be able to work on lesson plans and use your pre-configured NetOp School Teacher from any computer.
- Record Student PC Activity – Record student screens during a monitor or remote control session, including audio. Playback as an example for other classes or use for disciplinary reasons.
- Classroom View – Create a virtual seating chart using your own bitmap classroom-layout.
- Detail View – View students as a list for a quick view of who’s present and read private instant messages and questions from your students. Also shows computer/login name and which Policy has been assigned to them.
- Student Group View – Create and manage groups of students such as 'English as Second Language' for one click selection of just those students.
- Lesson Plan View – Create a list of NetOp School activities which can be easily accessed and launched. Use your NetOp Lesson Plan throughout the day or create it for a substitute.
- Remote Installation – Pre-configure and install the Student module on your networked PCs (Windows XP/2000/NT) right from your desk. Access install files from a CD or point to a network location. NetOp will prompt you for user credentials if needed. New - MSI installation package
- Web Update – All modules can be updated automatically from the web.
- Multi-Monitor Support – Broadcast only a specific monitor in a multi-monitor environment.
- Demonstrate Specific Desktop Area – Highlight and broadcast only part of your desktop.
- Broadcast Video – Broadcast MPEG, AVI, QuickTime or Flash 'movies' and animations to your class while locking their keyboards. Fully control the video using CD like controls including pause, stop, next, etc. Resize the image on student PCs.
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The Student Module provides users with a list of classes, recordings and messages from the teacher. The Student module is protected by a password so students can not end their session or change any settings.
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Student Module - Helping You Help Students
- Auto Join Class – Automatically connect student to a specific class when loading the student module.
- Tab Layout – Students can access lists of classroom participants, messages and demo recordings for local playback
- Browse for Classes – Let students look for, and join, classes listed locally or on a public server.
- List as Available – Students can be visible to all teachers on the network without being connected to a specific class. Teachers can invite students into their class.
- Naming Options – Use Windows login name or prompt students for login name.
- Request Help – Students can request help by sending a private instant message or question to the teacher. Once sent, a "Life Preserver" icon will appear on the Teacher's task bar and next to the student's name in the Detail and Classroom views and the message will appear in the Detail view.
- Stealth Mode – Run the student module so it is invisible to the student.
- Multiple Chats – Word wrap in text chat, customize font in text chat, etc. Let more students chat in different groups simultaneously. Teacher can follow or join any group.
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NetOp School enables you demo all or part of your screen to students in real-time as well as a media files, NetOp recordings, a specific monitor or a student's screen.
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Tools to Better Interact and Collaborate
- Give demo – Broadcast the teacher’s or any students’ screen to the whole class. Student keyboard and mouse will be disabled by default in full screen mode or leave the demo screen as a window, available for student reference, as they work.
- Pass the Chalk – Hand off control of the demo screen to one student at a time to help engage them.
- Remote control – Take over a student’s computer to provide one-on-one assistance. Control PCs by double clicking a student's name from the Thumbnail, Detail or Classroom Views.
- Monitor students – View student screens one-at-a-time in full screen to follow their progress.
- Hear student audio during Monitor or Remote control sessions.
- Text chat – Create monitored online discussion forums in Instant Message form. Students can participate in multiple chat sessions. Save and replay chat dialogs.
- Send messages – Send rich text messages such a clickable web links to students.
- Audio chat – With Open Discussion Audio Chat setting there is full two-way audio chat for two users. In Moderated Discussion Audio Chat more than two users speak together with Teacher as moderator. Microphone is assigned for one user at a time. Audio quality can be enhanced for better quality over better bandwidths.
- Run program – Launch programs or files on student computers.
- Attention Button – Lock screen, keyboard and mouse of student computers with a single command - display a text message, bitmap image or a Web page.
- Add Students "on-the-fly" – Right click a single student to include in an ongoing Demonstration of Attention session if they are just joining the class or were missed.
- Pass Students from your class to another NetOp School Teacher class
- Execute command – Logoff, shutdown, Wake on Lan or restart all computers with a single command.
- Distribute files – Distribute files, tests, coursework or NetOp Recordings to student desktops, to specific directories on the student PCs or to network directories.
- Collect files – Collect files from students and place them into specific folders for each student. Optionally you may also delete the collected files from the student PC.
- File Manager – Powerful split-screen file manager, copy, move, clone, synchronize files.
- Marker mode – Annotate screens during demo or remote control session much like a sports commentator. Use arrows, circles, squares, text and even a magnifying glass tool.
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NetOp lets you identify students by Windows Log-in, Full Windows Name, Computer Name or you can prompt students to type in a name at the beginning of each class. You may also identify each computer with a specific name.
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Tools for Better Classroom Connectivity
- Easy to Create and Change a Class – Pick from a local drop-down list or from a central list of all classes.
- Auto-join – Automatically include students in ongoing activities if joining the class late.
- Multiple Ways to Identify Students – NetOp School can identify Student PCs by Windows login, Computer name or a combination of the above and a domain. You can also assign a name such as 'Row 1 Computer 1' or prompt your students to type in a name each time a class starts.
- Select Class at Start-up – Prompt for selection of a class when the Teacher module is launched.
- Connection Service – Teachers can list their classes on a public server to provide easy connection to virtual classrooms on a network, multi-subnets or across the Internet.
- Wireless Support – Optimized for multiple Wireless access points
- IP Broadcast Range – For easy configuration of connections on multi-subnet networks you can use DNS (Domain Names) or IP address ranges.
- Subnet Assistant – Optimize communication across slower links in LAN/WAN and Internet environments by enabling the Teacher (in one location) to communicate with just one Student (in a group at a distant location) who will relay all packets received from the Teacher to the rest of the group
- NetOp School for Terminal Server – If your organization incorporates a Microsoft Terminal Server or Citrix environment -- NetOp School can be easily set up to provide inexpensive Thin Client web conferencing or training. For more information on using NetOp School for Terminal Server please visit www.ThinConferencing.com
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Take advantage of different user profiles and the validation of passwords via Windows Security Management.
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Keeping your NetOp Classes Secure and Stable
- Connection Password – Prevents unauthorized use of Teacher module to abuse a Student module by enabling authentication Teacher-Student connections via a general password on Student and Teacher.
- Teacher Login – Take advantage of different user profiles and the validation of passwords via Windows Security Management
- Customizable Tool-Bar and Menus – Decide which functionality is allowed in the Teacher module by hiding buttons and menu options.
- Protection – Select which options you wish to protect with the password • Teachers are prompted for password if trying to access a protected option • Teachers can freely manipulate options not protected by password
- Limit Access to Student PC – Authorized Students can limit a teacher’s access to their PC. This is ideal for a "Teach the Teacher" environment where Teachers may not want to be monitored or remote controlled.
- Support for Hard Drive Cloning – If you clone hard drive images for student PCs NetOp School will create a unique registry key identification for each Student to insure uniqueness.
- Re-initialize Student – Change Student settings remotely and re-initialize for immediate effect.
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