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Features:
Teaching with Vision:
Dashboard, Vision’s new dashboard provides teachers with a complete thumbnail view of every student computer in the classroom while offering intuitive and flexible controls from a clean, uncluttered window that is easy to customize.
Floating Toolbar, Access Vision features from a simple floating toolbar on the teacher’s computer that slides out of the way when not in use. This feature allows one click access to Vision’s most important functions and is customizable.
Screen Sharing, Vision’s Demo feature allows the teacher to share his or her desktop with an individual student, a group, or the entire class. Students can easily follow the demonstration regardless of where they are sitting in the classroom. The advanced screen sharing technology built into Vision provides real time viewing of the teacher’s computer and eliminates annoying gaps in the presentation that can plague other screen sharing applications.
Virtual Teacher, share a student’s computer desktop with the rest of the class. Students can demonstrate or present from their computer to the entire class and the teacher. The teacher designates which students are presenting and when the ‘Virtual Teacher’ starts and stops their presentation.
Remote Control with Drag and Drop, teachers can drag and drop files from their computers and place a copy anywhere on the student’s computer while using the Remote Control feature.
File Distribution and Collection, Distribute files, tests, forms or assignments to student computers and collect files from their computers automatically.
Broadcast Multimedia Files, Broadcast MPEG, AVI, QuickTime or Flash movies and animations to student computers during a demo session.
Audio, Vision’s audio feature allows the addition of sound to computer based teaching. The teacher can communicate directly to one or more students during a demo session using a microphone or have a two way conversation during a remote control session. Demos incorporating multimedia files can transmit audio to students.
Supervising With Vision:
Supervision, keep an eye on student computer activity by observing an individual student screen or all student screens from the teacher’s computer. Mentor student progress to help individuals and improve classroom time on task. Vision’s supervision feature shows teachers a real time snapshot of all the computers in their classroom.
Monitor Web Browsing, watch over web browsing in the classroom to enforce your school’s acceptable use policy and help students stay safe on the web by encouraging responsible behavior.
Chat and Student Questions, Create chat sessions between teacher and students or student groups to facilitate class discussions or allow students to ask the teacher a private question during quiet class time.
Instant Surveys, Receive feedback from students and gauge their comprehension by sending out multiple choice and True/False questions. Questions are answered anonymously and results automatically appear in a pie chart.
Controlling The Classroom with Vision:
Blank Screen, blank student screens during class to focus student attention to the front of the room or control access to classroom computers. The blanked screen can be replaced with a text message, bitmap image or a web page.
Remote Control, take control of a student’s computer in order to provide one on one mentoring or to troubleshoot a problem.
Lock the Keyboard and Mouse, lock student keyboards and mice during class to prevent web surfing, instant messaging and chat during presentations and lessons.
Start Applications and Web Pages, start applications remotely on all student computers or send out the same web page to every student in class to ensure that all students are in the same place at the same time.
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