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NetOp School allows teachers to get on with the business of teaching and releases the ICT team to get on with their jobs in a modern networked school.
NetOp School is easily installed onto the teacher’s and pupils’ machines, in a single classroom or across the whole school, and allows teachers to deliver lessons, share screens, pass the chalk, grab student's attention, distribute and retrieve homework and set and mark tests.
Installation and updates can be simply managed using built-in deployment tools, or your own distribution mechanism.
NetOp School allows you to keep pupils safe on-line, stop pupils using computers inappropriately, monitor their behaviour, and much more besides. NetOp School can even be used to deliver lessons across the internet.
1 Page Guides to NetOp School
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NetOp School is a tried and proven solution for assisting teachers and ICT staff in modern schools. With 15 years' track-record of constant use in schools in the UK and the world over, here are some of NetOp Schools key benefits:
- Helps teachers make the most of computers without having to change their teaching style
- Helps keep children safe on-line and away from inappropriate material
- Helps teachers to deliver lesson content effectively
- Improves pupils’ attention and focus in lessons that use ICT equipment
- Helps teachers manage a room of computers without an in-depth understanding of computers
- Helps control the use of a school’s computers, and is renowned for being very hard to circumvent
- Helps teachers who do not have much ICT experience to control lessons in ICT classrooms
- An administrator module allows you to remotely monitor and maintain computers across the school
- Helps control the use of a school’s computers, and remotely maintain them, without further hardware investment
- Modest capital investment with a keenly priced package for support and upgrade.
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5 top tips for using a classroom management solution:
- Monitor all pupils’ screens openly on a whiteboard/projector for all to see
- Make the help button available so that pupils can discreetly ask for help without having to stand out from the crowd
- Use policies to allow access to only those websites you want pupils to use in your lesson
- Use the Attention function so that as pupils arrive for your lesson their computers are automatically locked until you want them to be used
- Use in conjunction with a widely displayed count-down timer to help keep your lesson pace up.
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NetOp School tools for ICT staff
- Monitor pupils’ machines, in class and/or simultaneously from another location
- Limit permissions to access websites and applications on a class by class basis
- A simple installation can have a single classroom up and running in 5 minutes
- Built in deployment tools automate installation across networks
- Class Server automates timetabling and student and teacher allocation to classes
- Remotely control students’ machines to give assistance and perform maintenance
- Centrally serve and administer users, lessons and other resources (includes Windows Security Management integration for user information)
- A massive variety of communications protocols are supported
- Access to Bluebeam’s and NetOp’s dedicated support staff.
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How does NetOp School help schools navigate government initiatives?
- Byron Review – “There are also steps that need to be taken in the UK and on a global platform to make the waters of new technology easer to navigate safely.” NetOp School’s policies allow teachers to give students access to sites that help learning whilst restricting those that are not suitable. As children’s awareness develops more and more of the internet can be unrestricted.
- DfES Harnessing Technology – “Teachers increasingly use ICT to… bring their lessons to life.” NetOp School aids this by providing the means to get the most from computers whilst controlling the distraction they provide.
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NetOp School is a versatile teaching software solution allowing teachers to move freely in virtual and networked classrooms.
NetOp School uses 2 main components. A teacher module, that is installed on a techer's computer and a number of student modules, that are installed on all machines that pupils use. The modules can use a variety of protocols (usually TCP/IP, thought many others are supported) to establish a connection between teachers and pupils.
NetOp School mirrors real life, by organising teachers and pupils into classes so that only those students that should be with a teacher at any given time can be seen and can see a teacher. These classes can be within the same network segment, a common arrangement where computers are fixed in particular classrooms, or virtual classrooms that can be established within a school or across the internet.
Within each class a teacher can use a variety of tools to teach, control computers, assist pupils, set tests, distribute work files and much more. The screen-shot to the right shows the management screen a teacher would see, this screen gives access to the following tools:
- Views – view students as a list, or on a classroom layout (details or thumbnails) for a quick view of who’s present and to access students
- Lesson Plans – create and manage dynamic lesson plans. All NetOp School teaching actions can be pre-configured and easily executed at a click during lessons.
- Recordings View – create and manage recordings of the Teacher’s screen or recordings of Students’ screens.
- Tests – create and manage online tests and test results.
- Activity View – follow and manage students' use of applications and website in real-time. Close, Deny or Hide elements on-the-fly. View, save or print History List of used applications and sites.
- Snapshot – grab and save screen images during a monitor or remote control session.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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 and control students – view the screens one at a time to follow progress of work. Take over a student’s computer s
- Chat – online discussion forum in written or audio/video form. Start several Chats and save Chat content.
- Send message – send a message to selected users.
- 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 programs and commands – launch documents and programs on student’s computers using a predefined list; logoff, shutdown or restart all computers with a single command.
- Manage files - distribute, collect and manage files to groups of students to specific directories of your own choice.
- 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.
Optional Modules
NetOp School can be further enhanced with the following optional modules:
- Gateway: A module offering routing services of protocols. Mainly used for flexibility in Terminal Services environments. Read more
- Name Server: Enables resolution of NetOp names even with dynamically allocated IP addresses. Facilitates communication across internet. Read more
- Class Server: Facilitates connections between Teacher and Student modules in environments where computers are moved around while changing subnets. Read more
List of Functions
The following page lists the functions available in NetOp School for those who need to check exactly what it does.
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.
Tests View – create and manage online tests and test results. Tests can also be excuted from here using drag and drop. Choose between 10 question types.
Activity View – follow and manage students' use of applications and website in real-time. Close, Deny or Hide elements on-the-fly. View, save or print History List of used applications and sites.
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.
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.
Policy notification - notify students of the contents of an applied Policy, i.e. which applications or websites are allowed or not.
Snapshot – grab and save screen images during a monitor or remote control session
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.
Remote installation – deployment and 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. Optionally transfer sound from students to listen to them.
Remote control – take over a student’s computer sharing keyboard and mouse to assist in difficulties. Optionally transfer sound from students to listen to them.
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.
Video Chat - include video stream from webcams in the Audio Chat. Show teacher or present speaker to all.
Transfer sound - listen to the sound side of the student computer, while e.g. practicing languages.
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.
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.
Move Class – transfer students to another Teacher, e.g. a colleague with special skills, anywhere on the network.
Use Class Server - automates connection based on information in a central database with all courses, participants, and even lessons.
Re-announce Class – e.g. for refreshing the Student list
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.
Student polling – optionally have the Teacher check the network connection to Students at a selected interval.
Reconnect after network connection was lost – modules reacts to getting IP address renewed when performing a reconnection to Class. This covers e.g. computers leaving Hibernation state or computers with network cable being unplugged.
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.
Multi-monitor environments - support for demonstrations, monitoring or remote control involving all screens.
Security
Teacher login – handling of different user profiles and optional validation of password via Windows Security Management.
Customizable 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.
Protection password, Teacher – protect selected or all settings with a password to prevent unauthorized access to predefined settings.
Protection password, Student – protect all 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.
Teacher customization
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.
Teacher on removable media - copy Teacher module to a USB key. Makes it possible to prepare tests at home and run them later by plugging in the USB key.
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 send a message to students to invite them into their class.
Select class – dynamically select class, either by name or by using IP-address or DNS name of the Teacher machine.
Use Class Server - automates connection based on information in a central database with all courses, participants, and even lessons.
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.
Policy notification - view contents of an applied Policy, i.e. which applications or websites are allowed or not.
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 and special characters).
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.
Publish new updates – allow Teacher and Student modules to perform Web Update from a local web server instead of using the public web server.
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-Darius Zand; Zand Consultative Services, Newbury
About NetOp School
"I have used other similar products in the past, but NetOp has proved to be far more reliable.
The pupils get so much out of it and they really are learning. It helps maintain focus and helps me keep the
class moving at a good pace."
"With the older pupils, we can use the product in different ways and can give them a little more 'flexibility', whilst still maintaining full control. The use of NetOp School is just essential is my classroom." "
-Peter Guthrie; Weavers School, Wellingborough
Why We Sell NetOp
We've worked with a number of vendors in the past, and have a great deal of experience of products in this market place. We sometimes get asked, how come you do so much work with NetOp?
The answer's quite simple actually: we really like them and we really like their products. NetOp work hard to make sure that their solutions stay at the leading edge, but then so do other vendors. What really marks NetOp out is that they care about their customers as passionately as we do. With NetOp you get the best product, excellent support and real people to talk to when you need it.
We reckon you can't ask for more than that!
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