By: Ray Jess Ext: 4466

LanSchool is a clean, simple and easy to use tool to manage our classrooms.

 Press “Ctrl+Alt+L” at the same time or  If it is not in the system tray, click on the “Start” button, locate “Lanschool Teacher” from the program choices, left-click on it. It will then appear in the system tray at the bottom of the screen  If it is in the system tray at the bottom of the screen just “left-click” on it.

 From the LanSchool console’ the viewing choices are :  Thumbnail  Detail  Most teachers use the classroom view and thumbnails to manage their classroom.

 You can select a single student by clicking on them or the whole class by using Ctrl+A.  To control the action of the class or a student, you can use the drop-down menu, the icon bar or “right-click” on the student.

 Click on “View All”, select small or medium view, then select “Classroom Layout”.  Log into all of your computers, use word and set the font to 200, press enter then type the computer number (do that for all of the computers you use).  You can then see each of the computers on your teacher computer and drag them into the order you chose.

 Click on the student you wish to remote control, then click on the “control” button on the icon menu or just “right-click” on the student after selecting them.  By default, they no longer have control of their mouse or keyboard.  This is handy if you want to direct them somewhere or forcibly get them back on task.

 If you only want to view the student, double- click on the student.  To end the controlling or view of the student, just click on the “Control” button.  You can use the “Blank Screen” option when you want the classes attention just by clicking on the icon.

 You can send a message to any student by clicking on the student and then the message icon.  Messages can pop-up on the lower right side of the screen or force them to read the message in the center of the screen.  Students can also send messages to teachers.  They click on the LanSchool icon to ask a question.  The teacher can respond to it by right-clicking on the question mark on their screen.

 Select “Chat” and answer the question.  This can be done without disturbing the rest of the class.  To terminate the chat, just click on “close”

 You have the power to log a student or class off, restart their machine or shut them down completely.  Select a student or the whole class in the thumbnail view and either use the “Shut-Down” icon in the upper right-hand corner of your screen or use the “Administrator” drop-down menu.  Select any of the four features offered.

 There are two options to show the teacher screen  Full view-the students do not have control of their computer (preferable for demonstration)  If you want to use a pencil to highlight something, right-click on the Lanschool icon in the system stray, to close it just click on the red-x because it is a layer.  Windowed-the students keep control of their keyboard and mouse  To stop showing teacher screen, right-click on the Lanschool icon in the system tray.

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