Software that teacher can use to temporarily lock classes PC's ?

[LazyD]

Hello,

 

Working at a school that had an RM network which I've now removed (good riddence!). The only thing they miss is some software called RM Tutor which enabled all the ict suite pc's to be locked from a central pc (the teachers) while the teacher talked, and then unlocked when desired.

 

Does anyone know of any software that could do this? As always, the free'er, the better!

[GREED]

NetOp for schools> Netop: Secure remote control, classroom management & communication

[K.C.Leblanc]

AB Tutor is another. It's not free though, it's about £200 - £300 per classroom.

[Bezwick]

Italc?

iTALC

[ricki]

HI

 

Abtutor is about £160 for each management console not per room.

 

Get them to give you a price and the staff here would not be without it..

 

https://www.abtutorcontrol.com/abc/html/PurchaseOnLine.html

 

Richard

[FN-GM]

Lanschool Lite might be able to - LanSchool v7.5 | LanSchool its free

 

If not the full version will do

Edited November 3, 2010 by FN-GM

[SHimmer45]

synchronise is a good tool for pc control on a per suite basis

[bio]

We use Landesk Classroom Manager for this.

 

bio

[bart21]

+1 for ab tutor control

 

nick

[Dos_Box]

NetSupport School also does this.

[jamesreedersmith]

+1 for italc

[Paul10k]

+1 for ABTutor as well - plus it handles terminal server really well

[timbo343]

+1 for synchroneyes (or smart sync as it is now called) by Smart... SMART Sync classroom management software - SMART Technologies Teachers love it here.

[mrbios]

Impero! Impero - Features

[mac_shinobi]

Impero! Impero - Features

 

I was just about to mention impero - not free but a plethora of features and good price

[INeedAUsername]

another one for ABTutor Control

[mac_shinobi]

youtube comparison of them

 

YouTube - Impero vs Netsupport vs Netop vs LanSchool vs Vision vs Abtutor (Remote Control)

 

impero vs abtutor

 

YouTube - Impero (v3) vs AB Tutor (v6.3.3)

 

Proof is in the pudding

[speckytecky]

Another vote for Syncroneyes CNet have it on a 30 day trial from this link.

 

Be interested to see a price comparisum between the different systems?

[Simcfc73]

Browsecontrol for me. Only works after the pupils have logged on though. You also get the ability to turn the computers off in the room and block internet access.

 

We didn't pay much for it.

[zag]

use italc here, totally open source and free

 

works great

[rh91uk]

ABTutor here too!

[jsnetman]

youtube comparison of them

 

I'm not convinced at all about the integrity of those tests on youtube. Video plays alright here on ABTutor, a lot of this is configurable within each app. Could the guy of not allocated more resources to Impero or set the refresh rates different on each program. I'm not biased about any of them but I know one thing Impero downed my whole network when I pushed it out to clients, something to do with broadcast and my switches, did not go into why and how as it was just a trial.

 

Price wise ABTutor beats them all, apart from the free ones that is.

 

Also the guy kept on going on about how you have to select the network card and auto connect to PC's, this can all be done via the settings in AB.

Edited November 4, 2010 by jsnetman

[anerney]

+1 for AB Tutor Control, we have 11 licenses from them and I manage the software. Its simple to use and the teachers at our place love it.

[36Degrees]

Another AB Tutor Control here - only installed this summer in the 3 ICT suites and the teachers think it's amazing.

[3s-gtech]

That video on Youtube shows video performance on Windows 7 - AB Tutor is currently very poor on 7, even mouse movement is slow and choppy for me, where it's perfectly smooth on XP. Hopefully this will improve in time. Not fair to say you have to manually connect in AB - that's a tickbox in the options.