NetSupport School Support for Google Chrome OS

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1 NetSupport School Support for Google Chrome OS Recognised as the number one choice for IT educators worldwide, NetSupport School delivers the tools you need to help maximise the effectiveness of computer-led teaching. Recognising the ever changing landscape within the modern IT classroom, NetSupport extended its traditional Windows-only support in 2011 to include support for Mac and Linux computers. For 2012, you can now also utilise the power of NetSupport School within a Google Chrome OS environment. For use in any existing NetSupport-managed classroom, the NetSupport School Student app can be installed on each student machine running the Google Chrome OS. From the Teacher s desktop they can then connect to each (or all) system(s) instantly, enabling real-time monitoring, interaction and control of each student. For a Teacher to be able to monitor and interact with students that are using a Google Chromebook, a free NetSupport Connectivity Server application is provided for installation on any Windows PC. Then, using the regular NetSupport School Tutor, they are able to browse and locate all Chromebooks running the NetSupport School Student app, wherever they are on campus.

2 Key Features supported when using Google Chromebooks are: View a crystal clear thumbnail of each (and every) student machine within a single view Send an instant survey or request for feedback to each student and display results in real-time Send an attention-grabbing message or instruction to each student machine Automatically block access to any unauthorised websites Limit student use to only approved websites Block / suspend all Internet access Launch a website on one or all Student Chromebooks Close a website on one or all Student Chromebooks Block FTP Access on each device See details of the website that the students are currently viewing Ask students to register their details at the start of each lesson 3 modes are provided for grouping students by room to allow for management of mobile students NetSupport School now offers unparalleled flexibility. Within a single classroom, students can utilise a mixture of Windows, Mac, Linux and Chrome OS devices. All of these can be managed in real-time from a central Tutor console and, where needed, extra mobility can be added by utilising the free NetSupport Teacher s Assistant app available for ipad, iphone, ipod Touch, Android tablets and Android Smart phones. Only NetSupport School offers this level of platform support and interoperability.

3 Just a few of our loyal NetSupport School customers...

4 Real world feedback on NetSupport School... After trialling 3 products we chose NetSupport because its overall feature set was much more advanced and relevant for teaching and learning. Any Classroom Management product worth its salt allows you to view and take control of student screens but the ICT landscape has evolved and NetSupport has proved that it has too. It has a much larger range of features beyond the basics that are much more useful in today's modern learning environments. Winchester High School for Boys NetSupport School is easy enough for anybody to use...the teachers love it. All of our experiences have been positive. Once NetSupport is set up, it requires very little attention. As a technician, if I reimage a computer I do it remotely. NetSupport School allows considerable flexibility in setting up a computer lab, making it quick and easy for the tech group. At times, I have performed deployments from my office without visiting the classroom. San Angelo Independent School District The best software purchase we've ever made for our computer lab? NetSupport School! With the purchase of NetSupport School, Zurich International School has achieved radical changes in their computer lab. The difference before and after the installation of NetSupport School has been simply enormous. The teachers can now dedicate more time to teaching and less time policing the students. Zurich International School A number of products were tested but NetSupport School provided the best fit in terms of the class management functionality it provided as well as being the only product that was fully compatible with our NComputing virtual desktop environment. NetSupport School has greatly improved the interaction between instructors and students. This has proved to be particularly useful in the computer science department where instructors frequently need to troubleshoot problems that students encounter in their programming and other projects. With NetSupport School's range of collaboration tools, the entire class can participate in this process. University of St Thomas East Hampstead Park Community School has been using NetSupport for some time now, primarily using the functionality of remotely monitoring students and 'helping them' stay on track when distracted! We had then branched out into designing and using the Testing Console in order to re-stream an entire year group in Science. With the new version and the ability to integrate audio into the control and interaction abilities, we have seen the potential to have ad hoc language labs using our existing ICT infrastructure with nothing more than an appropriate headset. The product and support are both excellent and mean my support department can function effectively covering 6 ICT suites with just one technician sat at his desk - priceless! East Hampstead Park Community School Implementing NetSupport School in our building had helped us tremendously. We are now able to log web/print usage, lock computers when we need for security and student focus, provide IT support from a central location, and save time while students are on the net by giving them links to the websites we want them to go to. Students are now able to spend more time working productively. La Fayette Intermediate School In addition to the obvious educational value of the software, which allows immediate and constant interaction between the students and their teacher, the technology support group in also appreciative of the 'technician mode' which allows monitoring of strategic campus assets for inappropriate use and security challenges. As a K-12 institution, some students find the district computer network as a challenge to 'beat the system' as per Ferris Bueller. Our computer labs and libraries are often the spot of highest inappropriate activity. The NetSupport Technician console is a tool to hugely reduce the probability of inappropriate use. Big Brother is watching. Oxford Area School District Just to let you know, we got a Grade1 for safeguarding during our Ofsted inspection. They were particularly impressed with our e-safety policies and procedures etc - of which NetSupport School plays a pivotal role. Warrington Collegiate

5 NetSupport School has proved to be an excellent purchase. We utilize the product in two ways; while teaching, it allows the Instructor to focus the students on what is being taught by limiting their own computer access. Secondly, NetSupport School allows the Computer Lab Technicians to restrict the websites and applications the students use in the open labs to reduce the number of viruses and spyware infections as well as assisting in sending messages and enforcing the Open Lab guidelines. The Customer Service from NetSupport has also been fantastic. Whether by phone or the staff are courteous and very helpful, resolving any questions we have in a timely fashion. Prince George s College NetSupport School has not only allowed us to regain our students focus on assignments instead of the distractions of the internet, but it has also succeeded in areas that many overlook, such as printing. We were wasting a lot of paper due to papers being printed to the wrong printers, students printing more than one copy by accident, etc. With NetSupport School, we are able to approve or deny print jobs before they get sent to the printer. We also evaluated other classroom solutions, however, NetSupport School in our opinion, was way ahead of the rest. We have been using the software for a few months now and we love everything it has to offer. Howe Military School NSS has been added to the computers in the lab and the result is dramatic. I can now control 'where' the students go on the internet, the use of computers in general and the information flow to/from the students. FANTASTIC! TR Robinson High School We use it in our Digital Studios. Our Digital Media and Animation program demands software that can keep up with our high resolution graphics, video and animation. We chose NetSupport School because it handled these issues better than any of the other solutions available. Alfred State College After using a whole range of pupil management software I was seriously disillusioned with claims companies made about their software. We needed something that was easy to use for everyone, not just qualified IT personnel. As an MCSA there are not many programs that make me look twice. But from the first time I saw NetSupport School working it made me look again, after an hour of seeing what it could do and how EASY it is to use, not only for myself but for the teachers too, I knew I had to have this program (our headteacher never sees me this excited about software). We found NetSupport School could provide us with a long term solution while keeping the price very competitive. I would highly recommend this product to anyone in the market for a quality classroom management solution. Aveland School Installing NetSupport School in our classrooms has been a great help to both our IT staff and our instructors. It was a simple quick installation and was easy to configure. United States Airforce I use your product every day!!!! I also work under contract for Oracle. I am a cadre leader for 30 teachers...and while in LA a month or so ago with them, they were using NetSupport during their training sessions. Although they had a NEWER version than mine in the training lab, I was still able to dazzle those teachers with your product. Lecanto High School We have been using NetSupport School at Finchley Catholic High School for two years and remain extremely pleased with it. It gives us the ability to handle large ICT rooms effectively. The demonstration mode runs very smoothly and is, for us, preferable to demonstrating ICT skills on a whiteboard. All of the tools have been very carefully designed with classrooms in mind: blanking screens, disabling internet access and exhibiting one student's work to the rest of the class are just some of the very handy features. Our technicians have been able to install and manage it easily and we've found the official technical support very helpful, as well as our dedicated account manager, although we have hardly had to make use of them given how stable the package is. I really would not want to go back to teaching ICT without NetSupport School; crass as it may sound, it has definitely become our 'killer app' for teaching ICT. Finchley Catholic High School