LanSchool Mobile

Teacher's Assistant for the Apple iPad/iPhone/iPod

When paired with a LanSchool Teacher console running on either Mac or Windows, the Teacher’s Assistant can perform the following features on Mac, Windows or Thin Client students:

Reduce Student Distractions

Teachers can reduce student distractions by Blanking Screens, Limiting Applications and Limiting Web Browsing on student computers. This helps direct student attention from their computer to the teacher and keeps students on task.

Monitor Students

Ideal for monitoring student activity within a classroom setting, the Thumbnail feature allows you to view all screens as well as see the current application and website that the students are running. Teachers can send messages to all or individual students.

Assess Student Understanding

Students can be quickly polled during a lecture with true/false or multiple choice questions.

Help Individual Students

Students can silently Request Help from the teacher. A small question mark appears on the thumbnail with the student question, which indicates they need help.

Remote Control Student

The Remote Control Student feature in LanSchool 7.7 allows teachers to be mobile in the classroom while still having access to remotely use the mouse and keyboard on a selected student’s machine

Remote Control Teacher

Remote Control Teacher allows teachers to use all the features of the LanSchool Teacher Console while moving about the classroom

iOS Student

LanSchool supports iPads, iPhones, and iPods as students. Due to limitations in the iOS operating systems, the functionality is limited to the following items:

Voting/Testing

Each device acts as a classroom response system testing system where students can respond to teacher questions and take tests (iPad only).

Battery Monitoring

From the teacher's console you can see the charge remaining on the device's battery.

Thumbnail

From the teacher's console you can see a thumbnail of the device when running the LanSchool Student app.

iOS LanSchool Student application is a free app available from the iTunes App Store.

Monitor web activity

LanSchool allows you to monitor, limit and track web browsing on iPads through the new integrated web browser

Screen Broadcast

The iOS Student app includes the ability to receive “Show Teacher” and “Show Student” screen broadcasts to demonstrate key concepts