Mac

NetSupport School for macOS

Features include: 

Manage 

• Ask students to register at the start of each lesson – the teacher can request standard and custom information from each student at the start of a lesson.
• Lock or blank students’ screens to gain attention.
• Lock/unlock students’ Mice and Keyboards – by default, a graphic will appear on the student workstation, informing them that their mouse and keyboard is locked.
• Hand out and automatically collect files with each student’s details appended.
• Transfer documents and resources to all or selected students in a single action. It is also possible to copy files and directories between two students.
• Power Management – power on or off, or reboot classroom computers.
• Flexible range of options for connecting to the required student machines: assign machines to a designated room; or, dependent on the naming convention used for your machines, a fixed list of machines or match by partial machine name.

Instruct and Demonstrate

• Show the Tutor’s desktop to all or selected students to help emphasise key learning points.
• Open a chat session that all or selected students can join, enter their comments and share with the rest of the class.
• Send an attention-grabbing message or instruction to all / selected students. The message will be displayed in a dialog on the student screens and will remain until the user closes the dialog or the specified time limit expires.
• Remote control the student’s screen to instruct or remedy activity. Plus, using ‘share’ and ‘watch’ mode, the tutor and/or student can enter keystrokes and mouse movements.
• Screen Capture a students screen, saving the image in a file for later review along with the machine and student details.

Monitor

• Monitor the entire class or individual students via crystal clear thumbnails of each connected students’ screen, providing a quick and easy method for monitoring student activity in a single view. An icon is displayed on each student thumbnail indicating which website/application the student is currently using.
• Zoom in for an optimised high-definition view.
• Monitor the applications that are being used by connected Students.
• Monitor and restrict internet use.

Assess

• Send an instant survey or request for feedback to all/selected students to help gauge if the students have understood the content covered during the lesson. The teacher sends a question together with a selection of pre-defined responses, and when the students respond, the results are displayed in real time in percentages and as a bar chart. The surveys can be saved and re-used again.

Technical benefits

• Locate machines across any number of TCP/IP subnets.
• Accelerate Browse option available when searching for a large number of machines.
• Low Bandwidth Mode available for network environments where low data usage is a priority. Ideal for optimizing wireless network performance.
• Optimize network performance by increasing or decreasing the thumbnail refresh rate.
• The Support Tool provides school technicians access to all the system data to help diagnose and fix any problems.

System requirements

Mac: Processor: Intel Only | Operating System: Mac OS X 10.10 through to 11. 64bit Support.
(Administrator password required to complete this installation.)