Open Souce Class Monitoring Systems

[mikeglover]

Quick question:

 

What are you using for Classroom Monitoring (ie. viewing what students are doing on computers)

We currently have RM Tutor for our CC3 machine but we have a growing number of machines that are vanilla.

Hope to use a Open Source system.

Any suggestions?

[Gerry]

I think iTALC is your best bet for open source. I've never set it up as we have AB Tutor here, but search Edugeek - I think there's probably quite a few threads about it and possibly something in the Wiki.

[mikeglover]

Cheer Gerry. iTalc seems really good at the moment. I'm currently installing it on a classroom of laptops that are not RM CC3, so yet to see how bandwidth is when viewing all the machines over wireless.

I like the way you can centralise the configs to a network share so that teacher machines access the same config file. Very easy to adminster.

So far it gets a big thumbs up from me