LANSchool Instructions

LANSchool is a software program installed in the Computer Writing Classroom (CWC Room BC 101) designed to give teachers full control of all the computers in the room.

With LanSchool installed on each computer, you have the ability to:

• Broadcast teacher’s screen to all students' monitors.
  
  • each student can see exactly what the teacher is doing.
  • teacher takes control of all computers providing less distraction for students during instruction.
• Broadcast to selected students only.
  
  • allows others to carry on with their own work.
• Broadcastb a student's screen to all other students' monitors.
• Take control of a student's computer.
  
  • allows teacher to make changes for the student (or Close down computer)
• Blank all student's monitors.  
• encourages full attention of the students
• Block students access to the Internet
• Students only access the internet when the Teacher allows it.
• See a thumbnail view of a number of computer monitors at once.
• Monitor all the students or individual students as they work on their computer.
• monitor the sites students have entered.
• Check on Internet history of each computer.
  

Instructions:

Using Lan School to view a students computer screen on the instructor’s station:

Right click on the LS icon at the bottom right corner of the instructor’s screen

Click on “View Student” and a list of computers will pop up on your screen

Click on the name of the computer that you wish to view.

To broadcast another student’s paper to all of the computers in the room:

Right click on the LS icon at the bottom right corner of the instructor’s screen

Click on “View Student” and a list of computers will pop up on your screen

Click on the remote control icon at the right top corner of the LS dialogue box

Click on “Rebroadcast Student”

To broadcast the instructor’s screen to all of the computers in the room:

Right click on the LS icon at the bottom right corner of the instructor’s screen

Click on start broadcast

To blank the screens on all of the computers in the room:

Right click on the LS icon at the bottom right corner of the instructor’s screen

Click on “Blank Students”

To restore the screens on all of the computers in the room:

Right click on the LS icon at the bottom right corner of the instructor’s screen

Click on “Restore Students”