September 2007 — News
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Monitor & Control: Kentucky Teacher Keeps Students Focused with Classroom Suite
Romero was familiar with the product from a previous teaching position, and although he said he's seen other classroom monitoring products on the market, the extensive feature list in NetSupport School sold him, including the ability to allow or block students from accessing specific computer programs or Internet sites by computer, by classroom or group, or for the entire school.
Another powerful feature: a testing module that allows him to design a test, then present it on all student screens at once, to be taken individually. NetSupport can tailor the test to each student by scrambling questions, making cheating more difficult.
Through NetSupport, Romero maintains a list of his own and other classrooms at Franklin on his screen, showing him which site every computer is currently visiting. "When you see one that doesn't make sense, you can click on it. A right click [then] immediately blocks access," Romero explained.
When students have questions, he can queue them up individually in NetSupport from his desk, then visit each student's desktop remotely and address their questions. "It gives me a direct line to each student," Romero said. "I don't know what I'd do without it."
A free 40-user 30-day evaluation copy of NetSupport School 9 is available for download from the company's website.
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About the author: Linda L. Briggs is a freelance writer based in San Diego, CA.
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