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Description: LanSchool v7.5 classroom management software is an award winning software program designed to help teachers teach more effectively in a computer-based classroom.

(Please note that this application will only function in a LanSchool managed classroom environment. For more information please go to www.lanschool.com)

The LanSchool Teacher's Assistant is LanSchool's teacher console for the iPad, iPhone, and iPod touch. When paired with a LanSchool Teacher console running on either Mac or Windows, the Teacher's Assistant will have the following benefits for teachers, professors or corporate trainers.

Reduce Student Distractions
Teachers can reduce student distractions by Blanking Screens, Limiting Applications and Limiting Web Browsing on student computers. This helps direct student attention from their computer to the teacher.

Monitor Students
Ideal for monitoring student activity within a classroom setting, the Thumbnail feature allows you to view all screens as well as see the current application and website that the students are running. Teachers can send messages to all or individual students.

Assess Student Understanding
Students can be quickly polled during a lecture with true/false or multiple choice questions.

Help Individual Students
Students can silently Request Help from the teacher. A small question mark appears on the thumbnail with the student question, which indicates they need help.

LanSchool Teacher's Assistant Features:

Discover Student Computers
The Teacher's Assistant will automatically discover student computers on the Teacher's Console channel.

Thumbnails
The Teacher's Assistant will display resizable high color thumbnails of the student computers.

Blank Screens
The blank screens messages can be modified and selected from the Teacher's Assistant.

Voting
True/False, Multiple Choice or Verbal questions can be sent to the students. Student results are tabulated and shown in real-time to the Teacher's Assistant.


Send Message
Customized messages can be sent to one, multiple or all students. Select the students or use the implied all by selecting no students and touch the Send Message icon. Input a message or select and existing message and touch the Send button.

App Limiting
When the Teacher's Assistant pairs with the Teacher Console, the current app limiting settings are downloaded to the Teacher's Assistant. To limit apps on the selected students, touch the app limiting icon. An app limiting icon will be displayed on the thumbnail. To stop app limiting touch the app limiting icon again.

Web Limiting
When the Teacher's Assistant pairs with the Teacher Console, the current web limiting settings are downloaded to the Teacher's Assistant. To limit the web on the selected students, touch the web limiting icon. A web limiting icon will be displayed on the thumbnail. To stop web limiting touch the web limiting icon again.

Details View
To view the details about a student such as their battery information, last used application and last visited website, tap a thumbnail twice.

Student Question
Students can raise their hands electronically by clicking on the LanSchool icon on their computer and typing in a question to the teacher. That question is then displayed on the Teacher's Assistant.

The LanSchool Teacher's Assistant is a free app, but requires either LanSchool Lite v7.4 or LanSchool v7.5 to run in a classroom.

LanSchool Lite v7.5 is free to K-20 educators and is available from http://www.lanschool.com. It allows teachers to monitor a thumbnail of student computers.

LanSchool v7.5 is a full featured classroom management solution that helps teachers teach more effectively in a computer-based classroom. A trial version of LanSchool v7.5 is available at http://www.lanschool.com/demo.html.