NetSupport School now features a powerful print management component allowing total control over printer usage within the classroom. Students can be prevented from printing, be assigned page limits per lesson or require Teacher authorisation.

The print management feature supports multiple printers within a classroom, prevents the addition, deletion or modification of existing printers and provides printing usage summaries for the class.

NetSupport School extends its application control features with the availability of Messenger Monitoring. In addition to the ability to prevent Messenger applications running within the classroom, NetSupport School also provides real-time monitoring of specific Messenger applications presenting the Teacher with a real time view of chat activity and content.

The Messenger monitoring component supports a range of messenger applications including MSN, AOL and Yahoo messengers.

New to NetSupport School is Keyboard monitoring. Designed to be used in conjunction with application control, this component provides Teachers with a real-time insight into Student activity and topic understanding. During a lesson, while all Students are working using any approved application, the Teacher can monitor the entire class and see quickly and easily their typed content and activity levels.

The keyboard monitor also provides a perfect monitoring tool when students are online in forums or search forms.

NetSupport School also features protection from external sources for the duration of a class. This includes preventing data being copied to (or from) USB devices, CD or DVD drives.

Rather than providing a crude on/off policy that prevents resources being utilised in the classroom, the NetSupport School protection allows data to still be viewed on a USB Memory Stick or CD, but prevents copying files from them.

NetSupport School also provides a new Audio device control, allowing the Teacher to disable the Audio on all student systems in a single action. Perfect in a class of 30 noisy computers.

NetSupport School now features a Student Information bar, neatly located at the top of each Student Screen. This can be set to be always visible or to auto-hide.

The information bar provides feedback to the student on the current lesson, time remaining, current websites and applications that are available, the status of messenger and keyboard monitoring and quick access to request help.

All of the features included on the information bar can be customised by the Teacher.

The Internet monitoring and control features of NetSupport School have been further enhanced providing internet control across a wide range of browsers and the inclusion of partial URL filtering. Teachers can now provide access for students to selected pages on a website, but restrict access to other pages at the same site. Version 9 also includes the ability to block FTP access as standard.

In addition the latest version of NetSupport School features a new "SafeSearch" feature, which overrides the search settings for most leading search engines and prevents inappropriate content being returned within search results.

Wireless support in NetSupport School has been extended to offer improved performance over wireless access points and the inclusion of class lists. To complement this a new class list creation tool is now provided to allow for off-line preparation of class lists.

The latest version of NetSupport School also features a Student Locator, this connectivity server allows wireless student laptops to be located across any LAN or WAN. Using this new, standard component, Students' wireless laptops can be located and connected to from any Class list no matter what their current IP address information or subnet is.