Minimize Digital Distractions with Classroom Management Software | Faronics Insight

Insight, a Classroom management software by Faronics ensures that technology-empowered educational environments remain free from digital distractions. It provides teachers the right set of monitoring features to facilitate this.

Vancouver, Canada - June 6, 2018 /MarketersMedia/ —

Education institutes of all sizes have actively begun to incorporate technology into the educational atmosphere. Students and faculty derive the benefits of technology alike. Teachers leverage classroom technology to create more interesting lessons, like adding audio-visual components for retaining the attention of students or collaborating in real-time for better engagement. Students, on the other hand, use devices provided by schools or colleges to make notes, access research material, take tests and accomplish a plethora of other necessary activities. They are relieved of the need to carry multiple textbooks and other educational paraphernalia, as a single device can serve their purpose with ease.

However, introducing technology into the classroom creates room for a variety of digital distractions. Students can use their devices to access websites and information unrelated to the lessons being conducted. They can also play games, post on social media, chat with peers, and engage in non-educational activities of all kinds. Monitoring each device physically can prove to be very difficult and tedious since tech-savvy students are quite good at hiding such activities on their devices.

Insight, a classroom management software by Faronics brings together the complete set of features that enable educators in minimizing digital distractions in classrooms:

Effective classroom management: Teachers no longer need to resort to physically monitoring every device in the classroom. Insight allows teachers to see a thumbnail of every student’s screen in real time, on their console. This allows educators to keep track of each students activities, without having to approach their desks or rearranging their seats.

Remote access to student devices: If a teacher identifies that students are engaging in activities unrelated to their lesson on their device, they can immediately disable keyboard, monitor, and mouse access on that particular device. Essentially, they can take control of the computer, and even use it to provide one-on-one assistance to the pupil, if necessary.

Controlling Web Access: Insight allows teachers to filter students’ internet access. It can determine the websites that can be accessed, and block the rest. Inversely, they can block certain websites and provide access to everything else. By blocking the IP addresses of the most frequently visited non-educational websites (social media, gaming, and other entertainment sites), teachers can prevent distractions as well as the wastage of the institution’s network bandwidth.

Application Limiting: Insight also allows teachers to specify the applications that can be operated on student devices. They can also see a list of all active applications on student devices and can add them to the list of blocked or allowed apps per the requirement. They can also stop all the applications which are running directly by using the Clear Desktop Button.

Secure Assessment: Teachers can activate Insight’s Secure Assessment Mode to prevent cheating during the tests. It initiates a locked and protected digital environment which limits students’ access to unauthorized websites and application, blocks any incoming messages, and also restricts them from abandoning the test.

For more details about Insight, visit http://www.faronics.com/products/insight.

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