Teaching tool for computerized classroom instruction

NetOp School helps you manage your networked classroom more effectively. Whether used in traditional computerized classrooms, computer labs or corporate training facilities; NetOp School offers teachers and instructors powerful tools for computerized classroom instruction.

Teacher module

Classroom management
Details View – view students as a list for a quick view of who’s present. Double-click to initiate a remote control session.
Classroom View – create a virtual seating plan using your own classroom-layout. Backgrounds can be saved individually for each class. Double-click to initiate a remote control session.
Thumbnail View – view all students’ screens as thumbnails. Double-click to initiate a remote control session. Sort the thumbnails alphabetically in ascending or descending order.
Lesson Plan View – create and manage dynamic lesson plans. All NetOp School teaching actions can be pre-configured and easily executed at a click during your computer lessons.
Recordings View – create and manage recordings of the Teacher’s screen or recordings of Students’ screens.
Class Setup View – prepare and manage groups for your classes in a tree-view of students. From this view you can send a message to students listed as available and invite them to join the class.
Floating Desktop Toolbar – handle all teaching operations directly from your desktop with the dockable toolbar.
Customize toolbars – show or hide text for buttons. Re-arrange buttons. Hide buttons.
Remote installation of Student modules (Win 2003/XP/2000/NT4).

Collaboration
Demonstrate – show the teacher’s or any student’s screen to the whole class. Broadcast multi-media content - video and sound - from a shared drive or from a Web address (URL) and zoom 50% to full-screen. Broadcast selected screen-area only. Broadcast recordings of Teacher’s or of Students’ screens. Demo of full screen DOS on Teacher. Students can request microphone, help and keyboard during demo.
Demonstrate specific monitor – support for multi-monitor environments. Broadcast a specific monitor only selected from the list of currently installed monitors.
Auto join demo, monitor, chat, and attention – automatically include students in ongoing activities if joining the class late.
Attention – lock screen, keyboard and mouse of student’s computers with a single command using a text, a bitmap or a Web page.
Monitor students – view the screens one at a time to follow progress of work.
Remote control – take over a student’s computer sharing keyboard and mouse to assist in difficulties.
Chat – online discussion forum in written form. Start several Chats and save Chat content.
Audio chat – online discussion forum for the whole class using the sound system of the computer.
Send message – send a message to selected users in rich text format (RTF) containing e.g. links to web sites.
Work groups – create independent work groups and transfer full Teacher module functionality to appointed assistant teachers. The main teacher retains control over the separate groups.
Run program – launch documents and programs on student’s computers using a predefined list.
Commands – logoff, shutdown or restart all computers with a single command.
Distribute files distribute files to groups of students to specific directories of your own choice.
Collect files – collect files from groups of students from specific directories of your own choice.
File Manager – powerful split-screen file manager, copy, move, clone, and synchronize files.
Application Control – allow or deny the use of certain applications on students’ computers.
Internet connection Control – allow or deny access to certain web sites and URL’s from students’ computers.
Record screen activity – make recordings of activity on the Teacher’s screen. Add microphone sound and distribute to Students for local replay or demonstrate pre-recorded instructions. Record also Students’ screens during a monitor or remote control session.
Marker Utility – annotate students’ screens during demo or remote control using figures, text or a magnifying tool.
Pass the chalk – hand over control of an ongoing demo to any student for full collaboration on common documents. Students can also request control of a document.

Classroom connectivity
Easy creation of new classes – create new or copy from a list of existing classes.
Easy handling of groups - pick students from a list of ”Available Students” (not in a Classroom) visible for all Teachers.
Easy change of class – pick from a local dropdown list or from a central list of all classes.
Select class at start-up – prompt for selection of a class when the Teacher module is launched.
Select default Policy at start-up – decide which of your pre-defined Policies shall be applied on Students when connecting to the class.
Wake on LAN – right-click option under Student Group View. Possible to send out a Wake-message for one or a group of student computers.
Connection service – teachers can list their classes on a public server to provide easy connection to virtual classrooms on a network.
Multicast support – ability to automatically use multicast communication under TCP/IP if available.

Security
Teacher login – handling of different user profiles and optional validation of password via Windows Security Management.
Customisable tool-bar and menus – decide which functionality is allowed in the Teacher module by hiding buttons and menu points. It is possible to have global settings or individual settings for each teacher.
Maintenance password, Teacher – protect settings with a password to prevent unauthorized access to predefined settings.
Maintenance password, Student – protect the settings by a password to prevent unauthorized access to predefined settings.
Protect Student PCs – students can limit a teacher’s access to their PC to prevent unauthorized use.
Connection password (optional) – protect the Student module from being connected to a class announced by an un-authorized Teacher module (e.g. a Trial version) by applying a password on the Student module. The connecting Teacher module must have a matching password to enable connection.

Student module

Auto join class – automatically connect student’s computers to a specific class when loading the student module.
Browse for classes – lets a student look for classes listed locally or on a public server.
List as available – lets students be visible for teachers on the network without being connected to a specific class. Teachers can message students to invite them into their class.
Naming options – use Windows login name or prompt students for login name.
Request help – students can request help by sending a help message online.
Messages – receive and save messages from the teacher.
Recordings – replay locally the recordings that were previously distributed from the teacher.
Stealth mode – run the student module invisible and protected.
Re-initialise student – change student settings remotely and re-initialize their PCs with immediate effect.

Misc.
Language versions – available on a multi-lingual CD which includes English, German, French, Spanish, Danish, Italian, Dutch, Japanese, Chinese and Arabic versions of the program.
Operating system support – Win 2003, XP, 2000, NT, ME, 98, 95 and Windows Terminal Server 2000, NT4.
Protocol support – TCP/IP, IPX, NetBIOS
Windows Installer and Install Shield – choose between two popular installation methods.
Keyboard translation – different keyboard layouts supported (e.g. different languages).
Dial-up networking – TCP/IP dial-up connection is available for easy Internet access.
Web-update – both modules can be automatically updated from the web.

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