Software for Networked Classrooms

Feature-rich NetOp School puts teachers, professors and corporate trainers center stage in networked classrooms, labs, wireless carts or Internet-based virtual classrooms. This newest generation of lab and classroom management software facilitates true collaboration with your class while ensuring that you are in full control of classroom technology at all times.

The Award-Winning NetOp School enables a teacher, or instructor, to increase student time-on-task by being able to monitor their PC activity while they work. Teachers can also enhance classroom  interactivity with NetOp by broadcasting live demo screens to participants; mark up the featured screen to highlight a lesson; create monitored chat rooms or allow students to send you  private questions via an instant message button located on student PC. NetOp School provides many other useful tools to help instructors multi-task their efforts including the ability to send coursework and files to all student PCs, remote control students for one-on-one instruction, shut down or restart PCs, broadcast and control multimedia files and view your classroom in several different ways.

BENEFITS THAT WILL CHANGE THE WAY YOU TEACH

• Increase Student Time-on-Task by having the ability to quickly and easily watch exactly what they are doing on their PCs. Just knowing you have that ability will keep them working and on task. Plus you can call them to attention with a single button and freeze your students’ keyboards and mice during lectures and demos.
• Increase classroom interactivity by providing demos or instruction to one, several or all students at once; students can also send you a private message or question. Plus you can show one student's screen to everyone else to teach by example or hand over control of the demo to any student.
• Easily Multi-Task your efforts by doing much more with your students, computers and coursework - all from your desk.
• Easy to install and use - even for non-computer experts.
• Your network administrator will love this software. No server installation necessary. Low network usage. No changes to your PC drivers. And no need to reboot your PC after installation.
• Broadcast and demo multi-media 'movies' to students, such as Flash, AVI or MPEG files.
• No darkening of the room is necessary as with overhead, or video-projector sessions - and NetOp is much less expensive than those systems.
• Based on the award-winning, proven technology of NetOp Remote Control. Used on millions of PCs throughout the world
• Software only, no extra hardware installation necessary, less complicated to use - and you can be up and using the free evaluation the same day you download it.
• Supports XP (including SP1) and all your Windows PCs.

NETOP SCHOOL

Teacher Module - Superior Classroom Management
• Classroom View – create a virtual seating plan using your own classroom-layout. 
• Mosaic View – view all students’ screens as thumbnails. Click on one or more students to start a session. Sort the thumbnails alphabetically in ascending or descending order. 
• 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.  
• Student Group View – prepare and manage groups for your classes in a tree-view of students. Send messages to available students and invite them to join the class.
• Remote Installation of pre-configured Student modules (Windows XP/2000/NT) from your desk. 
• Broadcast Video - Broadcast MPEG, AVI, QuickTime or Flash 'movies' and animations to your class.

Interact and Collaborate

• Give Demos – Broadcast the teacher’s or any students’ screen to the whole class. Broadcast both Windows and DOS screens.
• Monitor Students – View the screens one at a time to follow progress of work. 
• Text Chat – Create a monitored online discussion forum in written form. Save Chat dialogs. 
• Audio Chat – Host an online discussion forum for the whole class using the multi-media sound systems of the computers.
• Auto-Join – Automatically include students in ongoing activities if joining the class late.
• Run Programs – Launch documents and programs on student’s computers using a predefined list. 
• Attention Button – Lock screen, keyboard and mouse of student’s computers with a single command using a text, a bitmap or a Web page.
• Execute Command – Logoff, shutdown or restart all computers with a single command. 
• Distribute Files – Distribute files, tests or coursework to groups of students using specific directories of your own choice on the student’s PCs or to network directories.
• Collect Files – Collect files from groups of students from specific directories of your own choice. 
• Remote Control – Take over a student’s computer to assist in difficulties sharing keyboard and mouse. 
• File Manager – Powerful split-screen file manager, copy, move, clone, synchronize files. 
• Marker Mode – Annotate students’ screens during demo or remote control session much like a sports commentator.

Classroom Connectivity - Connect to students in your class, across campus or across the state.

• 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” (who may not be in the Classroom) visible for all Teachers.
• Easy Change of Class – Pick from a local dropdown list or from a central list of all classes. 
• Connection Service – Teachers can list their classes on a public server to provide easy connection to virtual classrooms on a LAN, WAN or over the Internet.
• Multicast Support – ability to automatically use multicast communication under TCP/IP if available.

Security

• Teacher Login – NetOp can handle different user profiles and optional validation of passwords via Windows Security Management. 
• Customizable Tool-bar and Menus – Administrators can 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 unauthorised access to predefined settings.
• Maintenance Password, Student – Protect the Student settings by a password to prevent unauthorized access to predefined settings and prevent the user from ending the session.
• Limit Access to Student PCs – Authorized students can limit a teacher’s access to their PC to prevent unauthorised use. For example this would be useful in a corporate environment where supervisors need to attend training but require local PC security.

Student Module

• Auto Join Class – Automatically connect student 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 send a message to students to invite them into their class.
• Naming Options – Use a Windows login name or prompt students for login name.
• Request Help – Students can send the instructor a private request help instant message.
• Stealth Mode - Hide the Student module from the students.
• Maintenance Password – Protect the settings of the Teacher and Student modules by a password to prevent unauthorized access to predefined settings.
• Re-initialize Student – Change student settings remotely and re-initialise their PCs with immediate effect.

• Available in combined Teacher/Student packages or as stand-alone Teacher or Student Packs for maximum flexibility. 
• Classroom packages are available at prices starting at $639 (1 Teacher, 5 Students). For a customized price quote please contact us. 

NetOp School Supports Terminal Server
NetOp School for Windows NT 4.0 Terminal Server Edition (TSE) is in essence identical to the standard NetOp School modules under Windows, as far as feature set and performance. The main difference is a specific Terminal Server Protocol (TSP) to handle the communication between the sessions running on the Terminal Server to make Teacher and Student modules act like they are running on PCs on a network. 

NetOp School supports Windows NT 4.0/2000 Terminal Server Environments (TSE). This has been implemented by adding a Danware developed Terminal Server communication profile to NetOp modules installed on a Terminal Server. This communication profile is applied only for communication between sessions on a Terminal Server. The features and performance are in essence identical to running NetOp School in a network.

Single Server Solution
In a single server environment with terminals connected directly to the server, the Teacher and TSE Student modules communicate directly using the NetOp Terminal Server Protocol (TSP). The Teacher module runs from the console.

Teacher PC on a Network - or Server Farm Solution
In a mixed environment using terminals, PCs and one or more servers on a network - the NetOp Gateway is necessary to connect Teacher and TSE Student modules using the NetOp Terminal Server Protocol (TSP). The Teacher module will be run from a PC. Student PCs on the network in the given environment can also participate in the Classroom.