In this section, you would find out more about the various ways in which our product
directly benefits teachers in a computer-room setting.
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Screen Broadcast
In a computer-room, the traditional way of showing your screen to the class
is through the use of projectors. All the students in the room would be watching
this screen projection. What happens is that students seated further away may not
get a good view. They get easily distracted, especially when they have their own
computers right in front of them. With Teach you can broadcast your screen directly
to each and every student's computer. Everybody receives an obstructed, front-row
view of your screen.
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Webcam
At times, due to the physical layout of the computer-room, not all students
are able to see you from where they are seated. When there is no direct eye contact
between the teacher and the students, students may lose focus easily. With the webcam
feature, they will be able to view a live image of you on their computer screen
at all times.
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Monitor Student Desktops
When leaving students to do their work, you would frequently have to walk
around the computer-room to check on how each student is doing. Imagine doing this
without ever leaving your desk! Teach makes things a lot easier by allowing you
to monitor all student computers from one central location.
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Chat Forum
Encourage interaction by having student collaborations during lessons. You
can enable multiple student collaborations to take place at a time, and oversee
all discussions.
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Help Requests
Your students can get your attention easily by sending messages directly
to your computer screen. You can attend to them easily by starting instant messaging
sessions or even taking control of their computers. Students no longer have to wave
or call out to you to get your attention.
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Internet Lock
One major problem that teachers face in computer-rooms is the distraction
of the Internet. When students are allowed Internet access they may easily lose
focus and find it hard to remain on task. Teach's powerful Internet Lock feature
allows you to limit Internet access on student computers. It applies to all Internet
browsers and Internet applications such as chat clients.
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Application Lock
Software applications prove to be another major distraction in computer-based
learning. Limiting the use of other applications during lessons would keep students
more on task.
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Device Lock
Students these days are very familiar with downloading music files such as
MP3 off the Internet. They may even store the downloaded files onto thumb drives.
Prevent this by using Teach's Device Lock. This unique feature disables access to
removable storage devices such as CD-ROMs, floppy disks and thumb drives.
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Distribute Assignments
You can give out homework and assignments to all students in the class at
one go.
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Collect Completed Assignments
Once students have completed their assignments, you can easily collect back
the files to your computer. No more waiting for everyone to do this one by one!
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Launch Applications and Websites
When you want students to work on a particular application, Microsoft Word
for example, you would have to announce this to the class and wait for the students
to start up the application one by one. Teach enables you to launch the application
on all student computers at one shot! This works also for websites. You no longer
have to wait for students to type in lengthy web addresses character by character.
Simply launch the website for them and save precious minutes!
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Annotation
If you are familiar with SmartBoards, Teach offers a similar feature. You
can annotate the screen with colorful markers and shapes during Screen Broadcast.
Similarly, you can guide any student while he is working on his computer by annotating
his screen.
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