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About Insight
Computers in schools have the power to enhance the classroom experience for both students and
teachers. But the benefits can easily be lost to distractive elements such as games, instant messaging, and
web surfing. Best suited for K–12 classroom environments, Faronics Insight is the ultimate classroom
technology management system that empowers teachers with the ability to share their screen with
students, control student access to applications and Web sites, and monitor classroom screens to ensure
students are on task. Students enjoy the ability to interact with the teacher directly through Insight’s
chat, voting, and remote assistance capabilities.
With Insight installed on each computer in a classroom, a teacher has the ability to:
Reduce Student Distractions
A teacher can reduce student distractions by Blanking Screens, Limiting Applications, or Limiting Web
Browsing on student computers. is helps direct student attention from their computer to the teacher
and keeps students on task.
Demonstrate Skills
With the Show Teacher feature, students can observe the teacher’s computer right from their own
monitor. is is ideal for presentations and showing students how to use computer applications.
Keep Students on Task
e Monitor feature allows the teacher to view all or any students screens as well as glance at the
current application and Web sites that the students are running.
Encourage Classroom Participation and Collaboration
Voting is the ability to assess the student’s understanding of the classroom material by asking questions
that the students answer anonymously.
Help Individual Students
Students can silently Request Help from the teacher. A small question mark appears by their login name
which indicates they need help. At that point the teacher can Chat with the student or Remotely Control
their machine to help them with their question.
System Components
Insight is comprised of three main parts. e Insight console which is installed on the teacher computer,
contains all the features and commands used to control and monitor student computers.
e Insight task bar menu is the abbreviated version of the Insight console which contains the most
commonly used commands. It is opened by right-clicking on the Insight taskbar icon.
e student computer is where students follow the teacher or complete assigned activities.
e Insight Home Edition works with a maximum of three student workstations and does not have the
option to specify the channel during installation. With the Insight Home Edition, you can only operate
on the default channel and you do not have the option to change the channel aer installation.
Understanding how Insight works
Insight works by enabling a teacher to control all student computers within a computer-based classroom.
It uses teacher channels to ensure that all the computers in that classroom see the same computer
screen. Insight has 16,000 teacher channels from which to choose. erefore, an organization can have
as many as 16,000 different classrooms using Insight at any given time. e most logical way to set
up Insight is for each classroom or room to have its own teacher channel, as well as just one teacher
computer. is setup enables all of the computers in the same classroom to interact with each other and
one teacher to control the entire room.
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