Faronics – Insight
Educate, Assist, Monitor, and Communicate with an Entire Class from one Central Computer
Computers have the power to enhance the learning experience for both instructors and students, but the benefits can easily be lost to distractive elements such as games, instant messaging, and web surfing. Faronics Insight is the ultimate classroom management system that empowers instructors with full control over classroom technology while keeping student activities focused.
Faronics Insight enables instructors to harness the productive aspects of computers, while minimizing distractive behavior and temptations. Faronics Insight allows instructors to educate, monitor, and communicate with an entire class from one central computer. Insight enables instructors to share their screen with students, control student access to applications and websites, and monitor classroom screens to ensure students are on task. Insight runs on Mac and Windows-based computers, and now supports Apple’s iPad, iPhone and iPod Touch.
Insight makes it easy for instructors to:
- Encourage collaboration with internet co-browsing, chatting and remote assistance capabilities
- Enrich lessons by streaming audio and video from the Insight teacher console
- Facilitate assessment by creating tests within Insight and monitoring real-time results
- Keep users on task with application and web limiting as well as the ability to blank screens and mute computers