LanSchool is software installed on all student computers and staff computers in IT classroom. LanSchool allows you to monitor and control a students computer remotely.
Along the tool bar at the top of LanSchool, select the drop down menu under Shutdown.
Select the bottom option, Power on to turn on all machines in the classroom.
On the bottom right corner of the windows taskbar, click on the "show hidden icons" arrow.
Right click the Lanschool icon.
To show the full LanSchool, select Open Lanschool Console
To display the teacher screen to students select the show teacher button which will share your screen with all the students in the class, similar to that of Zoom Meetings.
It is possible in LanSchool to view student displays, the LanSchool console shows you a small image of each machine.
To view the screen of a specific machine, double-click on the display you wish to view. This will then enlarge the image so that the student display is much more visible.
To leave this view and return to the whole class, click on the ‘Control’ Icon represented by a remote on the toolbar at the top.
LanSchool can also be used to display a student display to other machines. To do this select the student from the room by clicking on them and pressing the ‘Show Student’ button.
LanSchool allows a teacher to ‘blank’ a student's screen, disallowing them from doing anything on the machine whilst blanked.
This is completed by selecting the computers you would like to blank and selecting the ‘Blank Screen’ option on the toolbar located at the top of the window.
To restore the student machines from a ‘blank screen’ simply press the same button.
By default, the message displayed when blanking screens is “Eyes to the front please”. This can be changed and configured by selecting the arrow next to the blank screen icon followed by the ‘Configure Blank Screen Message’.
At this point, it is possible to edit the message to the blank screen message in the text box provided, with a drop-down arrow to show the previous messages used.
To save the message, first click Apply and then OK - The process is the same to revert the configured message to “Eyes at the front please” or any other previously configured message.
Another useful feature of LanSchool would be the ability to take control of a student’s machine and control it as you would your machine.
To do this you view the student's display (as detailed above), select the arrow next to control, and select ‘Remote Control’
From this point, you will have full control of the machine and the student will have no control whatsoever and will not be able to control any aspect of the machine.
To relinquish control of the machine back to the student, simply select the same menu (Arrow next to control) and select ‘Stop Viewing or Remote Controlling’ and the student will be able to control the computer once again. Taking you back to the main LanSchool Console.
● To refresh the LanSchool Console (Interface) press F5 on the upper row of the keyboard, this will show the current state of the student machines
● To select multiple students, hold ‘Ctrl’ and click on each machine you wish to select
● To select a range of students, select the first student, hold ‘Shift’ and click on the last student you wish to select
● If you are unsure how to undo an action, first try pressing the same button that caused the action as that is likely the way to reverse it.