LanSchool

Overview

Use LanSchool as a tool for classroom management to restrict and monitor student activity in computer labs. 

•    Limit student access to websites/software
•    Monitor and Control student screens
•    Send Polls to student screens
•    Communicate with individual or all students

Start LanSchool

1. LanSchool should be open and minimized when you walk into an SVSU computer lab.
2. To open the console which allows you to view and control student computers, click the LanSchool icon in your taskbar.

Teacher Console - Dashboard

1. Click the arrow next to View All – this will allow you to choose between viewing details about all the student computers in your class, or seeing a thumbnail of their screen.  Select the size of thumbnail you would like the student view to be. 
2. The Console Dashboard has the most common tools listed on the menu bar.
   
   

Commonly Used Tools

Share Teacher Screen

The Instructor Station’s monitor can always be projected from the projector on the ceiling.  However, if you want to display the instructor’s monitor on all student monitors, there are two options. 

1. Select one or more student computer thumbnails. If none are selected, the screen will be shown to all computers.
2. Click the drop-down arrow to the right of the Show button.
3. Select the Full Screen or Windowed option.
   
   
   1. Image Quality - Ability to select from a performance slider bar for
      speed vs. image quality.
   2. Turbo Mode – can increase performance depending on available
      bandwidth.
   3. Auto-minimize this window - Automatically minimize the Show
      Screen Settings window.
   4. Draw on Screen - Allows the Teacher to draw on their screen with a red pen. Select the Stop Drawing button to change the mouse
      cursor from a red pen back to normal (arrow)
   5. Stop - Select this button to stop sharing the Teacher's screen with students
       

Student Polling

1. Select one or more student computers from the Teacher Console. If none are selected, the question will be sent to ALL students.
2. Click the Vote button on the toolbar.
3. Type the question and answer the way you want them displayed to students.
4. Select either True/False or Multiple Choice to determine the options available to students.
5. Click the Send to push the question to the student computers.
6. The teacher can click the Details to view and export a .CSV file of each student's specific answer.

Push a Website or Launch an Application

1. Select one or more student computers from the Teacher Console. If none are selected, the command will be sent to ALL students.
2. Click the Run button on the toolbar.
3. Enter the Run command you would like to send to student computers.

Send Students a Message

1. Select one or more student computers. If none are selected, the message will be sent to all computers.
2. Click the Message button from the toolbar.
3. Type a message and click Send to display that message to students.
4. Selecting the Force Student to Read this Message checkbox will make the message pop up above all other windows.

Blank Screens

1. Select one or more student computer thumbnails.
   If none are selected, all screens will be blanked.
2. Click the Blank Screen button in the toolbar.

Customizing the Blank Screen Message

1. Select the drop-down arrow to the right of the Blank Screen button.
2. Select the Configure Blank Screen... option.
3. In the Screen Blanking section, edit the text to be displayed.
4. Optionally, you can select an image to be displayed instead of a text-based message.

Limit Web Access

1. Click on the drop-down arrow to the right of the Limit Web button in the toolbar.
2. Select Configure Web Limiting...
3. Select the Web Limiting tab.
4. Select either Block All, Allowed Web Sites, or Blocked Web Sites, and add website addresses to those lists.

FYI: Web Limiting does NOT work with Firefox.

Limit Apps

1. Select the drop-down arrow to the right of the Limit Apps button in the toolbar.
2. Select the Configure Application Limiting... option.
3. Add the program EXE (Windows) or Application names (macOS) to either the Allowed Applications list or the Blocked Applications list.

To view and quickly add applications to the Allow or Block List, right-click on the student thumbnail and select View Student's Running Programs.

Control Shutdown

1. Select which student devices you wish to shut down.
2. Select Administer>>Shutdown Student.
    
3. A warning box will appear. Select ‘Yes’ if you wish to continue shutting down the student devices.

Control Student Mouse and Keyboard

1. Select a student computer thumbnail in the Teacher Console.
2. Click the Control button on the toolbar.
   1. Image Quality - Ability to select from a performance slider bar for speed vs. image quality.
   2. Turbo Mode – Increase performance depending on available bandwidth. 
   3. Auto-minimize this window - Once selected, the Remote-Control Settings window will auto-minimize each time remote control is started. To reopen the window, while remote controlling a student device, click on the LanSchool Classic icon in the taskbar or dock and select the Remote-Control Settings window.
   4. To stop remote controlling the computer, click the Stop button.

Selecting multiple computers will allow you to remote control multiple computers at the same time

Take a Screenshot of Student Screens

1. Select a student computer from the LanSchool Teacher Console.
2. Click the Snapshot button from the toolbar.
3. Choose a location on your computer to save the image file.

The file name will be formatted as [Login Name] ( [Machine Name] ) ( [Date] _ [Time] ).jpg

Files

Send Files to students or collect files from students.  The default location for files to be sent to and collected from is C:\LanSchool Files – You can have student set up a temporary folder in a different location on the computer, but NOTE that the folder will be removed when the computer is restarted due to Deep Freeze.  Also, any files that are stored in the LanSchool folder will be deleted when the computer is restarted.  If you need files to remain accessible, save them to the M-drive.

LanSchool Support Resources

• LanSchool Support User Portal 
• LanSchool Classic Teacher Guide 
• LanSchool Quick Start Guide 
• LanSchool User Help