New Netop School version 6.2

Introducing support for the Netop TeachPad
We have integrated our popular Netop TeachPad into Netop School with the release of Netop School 6.2. The TeachPad is the unique hardware device that puts the essential features of Netop School classroom management at your fingertips. You can supervise students, demonstrate lessons, control web surfing and blank computer screens with the touch of a button. This one-of-a-kind tool gives teachers push-button control over classroom computers and makes it easy for any educator to teach effectively with technology.
Learn more about the Netop TeachPad

Also in Netop School version 6.2 lots of add ons and improvements:

• Support for 32 and 64-bit Windows 7 and 64-bit Windows Server 2008 R2.
• The Windows full logon name of students is now visible in all Teacher views.
• The icons representing Students workstations no longer move from their spots in the Teacher pane during continues student log on and off.
• Many improvements based upon user input

Other important features of NetOp School are:

• Teach - Share any screen with the class distribute and collect work. With NetOp School you can instruct each student individually, yet simultaneously. By broadcasting your screen to the rest of the class, each student effectively receives a front row seat and first-hand instruction. And you don't have to worry about students paying attention to your broadcast. NetOp School allows you to lock student keyboards and mice during presentations.
  

• Manage - Manage your classroom and follow students as they work. It is important for teachers to follow students progress as they work. However, wandering around the class can be both distracting and intimidating. With NetOp School you can monitor all students at once or individually from your own desk, and take over a students computer easily to provide discreet assistance.
  

• Control - Prevent students from accessing websites or using specific applications. With NetOp School you don't have to worry about students accessing inappropriate websites or playing games instead of working. You can apply policies to allow or deny specific programs and web addresses. Policies can be applied and changed on the fly to match a teaching situation.
  

• Distribute - Distribute and collect documents from students. Offline tests and assignments can be distributed and collected from all student computers at the touch of a button. And students can place homework in esignated folders for easy collection - far simpler than receiving floppy disks or emails from each student.
  

• Test - Create and perform regular tests 10 different question types. Use NetOp School's powerful Test Center to appraise students online. Rapidly prepare exams using the module's Wizard. Once ready, distribute a test to all students simultaneously at the touch of a button. Finally, correct and score tests automatically for convenience and speed. You can even generate electronic reports on each student's performance, enabling immediate individual feedback.
  

• Communicate - Visual contact with your remote students. NetOp School now has video streaming capabilities to enable teachers and students to see each other during audio or chat sessions. Now, with the use of a webcam, networked classroom attendees can engage in video conferencing for remote training and distance learning implementations. Additionally, teachers now have the ability to take snapshots of their student's screens for later discussion or for reprimanding students for the improper use of their computers.
  

• Class Management - The Netop School Class Server (PDF, 210 kb) handles communication between the Teacher and Student modules and the database. Teachers and Students using NetOp School on larger educational networks will most likely participate in many classes during the day. They may use portable computers and move around, connecting from different parts of the network (e.g. wireless access points) thus frequently changing ip-addresses. The NetOp School Class Management product automates these connections between NetOp School Teacher and Student modules based on information in a central database about classes, students, teachers and date and time.
  

• 1-2-3 Wizards - Easy to Install, Learn and Use To provide easier navigation and usability, NetOp School now offers 1-2-3 Set-up Wizards that simplify some of the application飼s more advanced features. Each wizard provides simple instructions for walking users through the necessary steps for configuring Teacher and Student modules, File Distribution and Collection, and the creation of tests.

Beside all that NetOp School has a bumps of other nice features. For instance the possibility to assign workgroups. Within a workgroup a monitor may be assigned to a specific student who can temporarily receive teacher functionality. Offcourse the teacher can still monitor that workgroup. Other features are annotating the students screen, showing a students screen to other students, the simultaneous launching of a program on all student computers, remote student rebooting and clipboard transfer. The teacher can ask for the attention of all students by showing a message and locking their keyboards and students can request the teacher for assistance.
It is easy to assign students to new classes and teachers can make their classes available using a public server. The teacher module can have different functionality and access rights for each teacher, using e.g. Windows Security Management for validation. NetOp School has extended security features, such as encrypted communication, IP-level security and central storage of student configuration data.

NetOp School different language trial versions and documentation can be dowloaded from www.netop.com