Overview
On task instruction
Insight makes it easy for instructors to monitor user computers, blank user screens, mute audio, remote into user computers, and open, close or block applications and web activity on user workstations. Instructors no longer need to deal with classroom distractions like games, instant messaging, and web surfing when teaching a class.
Enable Collaboration
Instructors are able to share their screen with users or their supervision as well as share a user’s screen with other users. Communication efficiency is increased with the ability to send and collect files, chat with users, broadcast messages, and hold classroom votes and student testing, all over a variety of machines and operating systems.
Technical Features
- Manage and group student computers, through list or thumbnail view
- Control multi-media playback to the entire class
- Screencast from instructor to class, or student to student
- Ability to take control of students computer remotely, and co browse websites
- iPhone and iPad apps: Teacher's Assistant iPad App, Teacher's Assistant iPhone App, Insight Student iPad, Insight Student iPhone
- Send messages to students, or run class-wide polls or tests
- Control, block, launch and manage applications and website on all machines
Insight Console
- Easily access the console through the system tray menu (on Windows) or the Dock (Mac OS X)
- Manage students in a list view or by thumbnails
- Access features through a customizable menu, icons, or via right click
- Name student computers based on Windows, Novell, or Active Directory accounts
- Move between computer labs while keeping student lists organized
- Monitor and compare student attendance
- Broadcast audio from teacher console and manage audio settings
- Support for Apple Ipod, iPhone, and iPad
- Transmit a video file simultaneously to all student clients and control video playbacks for all students at the same time
- Thin Client Support (Windows 2003 Terminal Server and NComputing)
- Fat Client Support (Windows 2003 Terminal Server and NComputing)
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
- Co-browsing websites lets students follow along
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
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 screens (with optional custom message), locking out keyboards and mice, or muting the sound
- “Clear Desktop” functionality to quit open student programs
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
- Randomly select a student and notify them via the console
Power Features
- Easily shutdown, logoff, or restart student computers
- Power on computers remotely using Wake-on-LAN technology
Thumbnail Monitoring
- View up to 3,000+ hi-color thumbnails at the same time
- Active applications and last visited website appear as thumbnail icons
- Thumbnails can be arranged to match the shape of the classroom
Web Limiting & Classroom Monitoring
- Block all Internet activity including browsers, e-mail, instant messaging
- Allow (Whitelist) / Disallow (Blacklist) access to selected websites
- Save and load web limiting websites for different classes
- Display a launch page that lists allowed/disallowed websites
- View a student’s Internet browsing history
- Monitor workstation keystrokes in real-time (except at the login prompt)
- Receive keystroke alerts for banned words
- Extend visibility and monitor student actions easily with dual montiors for both teachers and students
- Restrict Private Browsing for Internet Explorer 8
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
- restrict USB and CD-ROM drive access
Testing & Voting
- Ask the students Yes/No and multiple choice questions
- Distribute tests to students that can be completed electronically
- Test questions can be displayed in a random order on student machines to prevent cheating
- Improve testing with new essay-type answers
Security & Anti-Tampering Controls
- All activity within Insight is logged to a status window
- Password protection prevents rogue console use
- Insight does not allow a student to mischievously “unload” the software or disrupt class by unplugging the network cable
- Active Directory Secure Mode allows only members within a specified Active Directory group to view or control workstation to prevent unauthorized use of the Insight console
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
One to One
- Teachers can shift from class to class while applying changes to student lists, channels, and class profiles in real-time
Screenshots
Classroom Layout
Student Monitoring
Insight Test Builder
Student Testing
Send/Collect Files
Student Voting
Application Limiting
Web Limiting
What others have said...
...Insight is designed for classroom settings to allow a teacher to monitor and/or limit the computer usage of students. We use it for the same purpose but aim it towards our public-access computers...Taylor County Public Library
... Since we have over 150 workstations running the Insight client, network traffic congestion was a concern of mine. However, once we had everything installed I did not notice any network slowdowns whatsoever...Bangor Township Schools