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K-12 schools, technology administrators, teachers, school counselors, school nurses, and parents.
Those kind of features are very interesting nice to have in a classroom to make it more smarter.
The user interface is little boring, some advance options are missing.
LanSchool is amazing it comes with some great features that make students and teachers get more interactive and live in the learning-teaching environment.
It can be difficult to set up and remembering what channel to broadcast on.
If you have a windows machine and need the ability to monitor what your students are doing this is the best.
LanSchool is still not compatible with Windows 8. Our district is making the move, since Windows 8 has been out so long, but then we will have no monitoring.
I love the ability to control the computer screens of those in my class and direct their learning and attention to what we are learning about.
For the block websites option, it only works some of the times. Also, the software looks dated from the 90s.
GoGuardian helps teachers ensure that students are using computers appropriately and staying on task. I love that you can see what students are doing, as well as what other tabs they have open.
Gogaurdian is the worst thing in the world for me and other kids my age.
I love that the company interacts with their customers to help build a better product and experience.
The whole peace of software is really bad and should be banned from schools.
Their customer support and outreach has been phenemenal. Not only does the GoGuardian team respond to my emails and requests, but they are happy to reach out for feedback and ideas for improvement.
I dislike the fact that there are too many work-arounds to where students can by-pass the GoGuardian protections. There are numerous videos on YouTube that show how to get around their software.
I like the ability to check students when they are working online. I especially like to monitor students when they are typing essays.
They can choose to monitor or restrict Chromebooks. We use GoGuardian Admin to monitor Smart Alerts and track lost Chromebooks.
Karee: Hi, my name is Karee. I'm a STEM teacher. And I give LanSchool a four out of five rating. For more reviews like this, click below. At my school, we used LanSchool to be able to run programs for our student computers and prepare before they arrived at school. So we were able to open up applications that we knew that they would be needing to use. And then, also, if we wanted students to stop working, it was a great classroom management tool. We could blank their screens, we could show our screens. So it was really great for technology management and preparation. What I loved most about LanSchool is that I was able to pause student computers. So if I needed to get their attention, I could write a message and send it to them, and then it would freeze their screens, which was super nice. I also really like there's just a lot of time saving. So instead of having to have students always log in and navigate to where they have to go to the right page, I could just literally send that page to all of my students or whatever they needed to be working on. So it just was a huge time saver when you have a little bit of time for class. One of the only things I did not like about LanSchool is, obviously, students could move things on the desktop around. And so if we ever wanted to use keyboard shortcuts, or if we wanted to open things on different computers, if students moved something on the computer, it wouldn't work. So if not all desktops were the exact same were files were located in things, we'd often run into bugs.
Alexis Z.: Hi, my name is Alexis, and I am an English II teacher. My company size is between 5,000 to 10,000 people, and my rating for GoGuardian is five out of five stars. I came to learn about GoGuardian through my current school district. When I joined, they were utilizing this program. I had never heard of it before, but they provided us a training, and I noticed many features that were very appealing to me that I could use in the classroom. There are many features of GoGuardian that stand out to me to be absolutely fantastic. First, when students are working on a Chromebook, I can easily monitor what they are doing. I'm also able to address off-task behaviors in the moment by chatting through students through GoGuardian's chat system. Also, I find that when students are working on essays, utilizing GoGuardian and its chat system makes it very efficient and easy for me to check all the students' work very quickly and provide efficient feedback. For example, when I am looking through GoGuardian on my Chromebook, I can check each student's work as they are working in the moment, and then I can send them feedback right away. This allows me to check many students in a shorter amount of time than it would be if I was to go student by student. I also like how I am given a report about all of the websites that students access after I close my GoGuardian session. Getting started with GoGuardian was extremely easy. Once I logged in, I could see all of my classes, and all of my rosters were already available to me. All I had to do was start the session, which was very self-explanatory and easy to do. One bit of advice I would give to someone who is looking at getting started with GoGuardian is to utilize it for all of its great features, but to also keep in mind that there are certain workarounds for students that allow students to put a screen up and seem like they are working, but they're actually not. They're playing a game. So I would advise that you watch each student diligently as on the computer as they are working, and make sure that they are working on the page they're supposed to be working on. If you don't see any movement, then you might want to go check on that student.
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