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Insight
 
Insight Key Features
Insight Console
  • Easily access the console through the system tray menu
  • Manage students in a list view or by thumbnails
  • Access features through menus, icons or a right click
  • Manage all or just the selected students
  • Move between computer labs while keeping student lists organized (not available in Home Edition)
  • Monitor and compare student attendance (not available in Home Edition)
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    Teachers Can Share With Students
  • Show the teacher screen on student monitors
  • Full Screen mode makes the teacher’s screen take over the entire student screen and lock-out the student’s mouse and keyboard
  • Windowed mode makes the teacher’s screen appear in a resizeable window on the student’s machine
  • Draw on the screen to highlight important details
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    Students Can Share With Other Students
  • Allow a student to share their screen with the rest of the class
  • The student is in control until the teacher stops the broadcast
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    Control Student Workstations
  • Help a student by taking control of their computer
  • Optionally disable the student’s keyboard and mouse during a remote control session
  • Grab student attention by blanking their screen and locking out their keyboard and mouse
  • While blanking their screen, display a custom message
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    Communicate With Students
  • Send a text message to all or selected students
  • Students can ask a question directly through Insight
  • Teachers can initiate a text-based chat session with a student
  • Transfer files to and from student computers or their network drive
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    Power Features
  • Easily shutdown, logoff, or restart student computers
  • Power on computers remotely using Wake-on-LAN technology
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    Thumbnail Monitoring
  • View up to 256 hi-color thumbnails at the same time
  • Hovering over the thumbnail will cause the size to quickly increase
  • Active applications and last visited website appear as thumbnail icons
  • Best fit option automatically selects the optimum thumbnail size
  • Thumbnails can be arranged to match the shape of the classroom
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    Web Limiting & Monitoring
  • Block either all Internet activity including browsers, e-mail, instant messaging, or just certain websites
  • Save and load web limiting websites for different classes
  • View a student’s Internet browsing history for that day
  • Monitor workstation keystrokes (except at the login prompt)
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    Application & Device Connectivity Control
  • Allow only the applications that the students need
  • Block certain applications from running
  • Save and load application limiting lists for different classes
  • Limit student access to printers and USB thumb drives
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    Student Voting
  • Ask the students Yes/No and multiple choice questions
  • View the number of students that voted & the real-time results
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    Security & Anti-Tampering Controls
  • All activity within Insight is logged to a status window
  • Unauthorized use can quickly be identified 
  • Insight does not allow a student to mischievously “unload” the software or disrupt class by unplugging the network cable
  • Stealth mode allows Insight to run on workstations without user awareness (not available in Home Edition)
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    View & Snapshot Running Applications
  • Teachers can view all running applications on a student’s computer and add those applications to the allowed or blocked application lists
  • Take a snapshot of the student’s current computer screen
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    One to One (not available in Home Edition)
  • Teachers can move between different computer labs while keeping student lists organized and updated in real-time 
  • Students can switch to other teacher channels without restarting
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