Respecting SEND students’ personal space needs
Recognising SEND students’ needs for personal space in schools is so important.
With NetSupport School, teachers can deliver instruction, monitor, assess and interact with these students – respecting their needs while still providing the high level of supervision and support they require[i].
What’s more, students can still participate in group work this way, ensuring they feel included in their class.
Everyone can see without crowding round
For maximum visibility when you’re presenting to your class, you can share your teacher’s screen to all connected students’ devices to help demonstrate a point or show them how to do a particular task. In addition, if a student has produced a great example of work that you want to show to the rest of the class, you can display this on everyone’s screens, meaning nobody needs to move around the class to see it.
Communicate while maintaining personal space
When a student requests help, there’s no need to go over to their desk. NetSupport School’s help request tool means a student can click on the ‘Request help’ icon on their Student Information Bar and type in their question – and you can respond directly from your PC.
To further support this, you can also use the Chat and Message tools to help students with their work. You can chat with an individual or a group, adding and removing students, as necessary.
Collaborate without being too close
A full-screen interactive whiteboard is integrated directly within NetSupport School and is supported by a wealth of drawing and annotation tools for collaboration. You can show it to all students’ screens in real time, and they can interact with it directly from their own devices.
Send out and collect work automatically
You can use NetSupport School’s Send/Collect work feature to send documents to an individual or multiple students’ devices. Once you have sent out your files, real-time feedback tells you who has completed their work and who has items left to do. When all the students have finished, you can simply ‘collect’ the work back in again – it’ll have each student’s details appended, so you’ll know who did what.
A choice of assessment methods
NetSupport School’s Q&A module is a collaborative tool that engages students with a selection of questioning modes. It means you can reinforce key learning points with questions sent straight to their devices, plus, understand how well they have understood lesson concepts. Perfect for team participation from a distance.
You can also use the dedicated Testing Module to compile tests or exams with various question types (e.g. multi-choice, drag and drop, apply labels and more) that are auto-marked – and surveys also allow you to do quick polls with students in a way that respects personal space.
Student journal
NetSupport School’s Student Journal is a PDF document of key information you have covered during a lesson. You can add notes and resources you have referred to directly to every student’s journal – and each student can add notes too, making it a personalised document. It’s also a fantastic reference for any absent students.
Technicians can fix issues from afar
NetSupport School’s Technicians’ Console helps the IT team support users and manage devices across the school. When problems arise, IT technicians can perform powerful 1:1 PC Remote Control on any selected computer, capture screenshots, annotate the screen and provide direct technical assistance to any classroom teacher or student – thereby maintaining personal space for the students who need it.
Monitor progress and activity without walking around the class
A handy thumbnail mode means you have visibility over all of your students – even if they are in different rooms at any time, perhaps for group work. You can monitor their progress and see who is on task – all without walking around amongst them.
Core features…
View and control students’ screens
3 user modes for teachers
Real-time instruction tools
Lock screen/device
Testing and assessment tools
Application metering and control
Student help request and Chat
Show teacher’s screen to students
Hand out and collect work
Internet metering
and control
Gauge student wellbeing and topic understanding
Integration with OneDrive
Digital student journals
Virtual Whiteboard
Language Lab module