Classroom management and monitoring software to free your class from distractions.

1. InSight 101
Monica Dvorsky
Network Enterprise
Engineer
monica_dvorsky@sccoe.org
Martin Cisneros
Academic Technology
Specialist
mcisneros@sccoe.org

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Digital Trends & Flow
For The Common Core Educator

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ARE
YOU
READY?

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Take a closer look @ Tech

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Recommended Student Technology Skills for The Common Core

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Agenda • Insight Default Controls
• Screen Sharing
• Voting
• Run Apps or websites
• Choose Monitoring Views
• Control of Stud Computer
• Blank Screen
• Limit Web & Apps
• Limit Print & Drives
• Chat & Messages
• Send Files
• Co-Browse Internet
• Shutdown, Log Off & Restart

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Launch
Insight
&
Quick
Tools
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•Left click here
for full teacher
console
•Right click for
quick tools
menu

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Launch
Insight
&
Quick
Tools
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•Right click for
quick tools
menu

19. • Right-click your mouse on
the Owl to access the
Teacher Menu .
• The Teacher Menu
displays the most
common teacher actions.
• Note: Most actions can
be toggled on/off from
this menu.
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Insight
Teacher
Menu
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Teacher
Channels
-­‐
Preferences
Menu
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• Hovering your mouse over the Owl icon displays the Insight
Teacher Channel information on teacher or student
computers.
• Teacher and student computers must be set to the same
channel for sharing, viewing, and controlling computers.
• Teacher Channel numbering conventions are a
combination of your school code and classroom number.
• This graphic show the results of hovering over the Owl icon
to display the channel(s) that the teacher is connected to
channels classroom 1575 and carts 1501, 1502, and 1503.
• Osborne School code is 15.
• Tom will distribute a page of classroom channels.

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Changing
Teacher
Channels
-­‐
Preferences
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• To set and/or change the
teacher channel of the
computers you want to view,
select “Administer” from the
main menu and then choose
“Preferences…”
• You need to specify which
channel or channels you wish
to view.

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Changing
Teacher
Channels
-­‐
Preferences
Insight
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• To change the teacher channel of the
computers you want to view, select
“Administer” from the main menu and
then choose “Preferences…”
• IP-Directed Broadcast must be
selected with the 204.88.134.248
subnet entry. This connects to the
Insight Server
• In the “Preferences” window, click the
“Use Single Channel” button to enter
the channel number you wish to view.
• Or click “Use Multiple Channels”
button and separate multiple
channels by commas.

23. • Right-click your mouse on
the Owl to access the
Teacher Menu .
• The Teacher Menu
displays the most
common teacher actions.
• Note: Most actions can
be toggled on/off from
this menu.
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Insight
Teacher
Menu
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Insight
Teacher
Menu
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• Show Teacher’s Screen
• This menu action displays
your screen on all student
monitors.
• Note that the Owl icon shows
a screen behind the Owl.
• Right-click on the Owl and
select “Stop Showing
Teacher’s Screen” to exit this
mode.

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Insight
Teacher
Menu
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• Blank All Screens
• This menu action locks all the lab
computers and displays the
message “Eyes to the front of the
classroom please…”
• The keyboard and mouse
functions are also disabled.
• Note that the Owl icon changes
to a padlock in this mode.
• Right-click on the Padlock and
choose “Unblank All Screens” to
exit.

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Insight
Teacher
Menu
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• Limit Web
• When selected, this menu action denies
Internet access to all student computers.
• There is no change to the Owl on the
teacher machine when “Web Limiting” is
enabled.
• However, the Owl icon on the student
computers is changed to a globe with a
minus symbol.
• Right-click on the globe to “Stop Web
Limiting.”
• Insight displays a notification on student
computers that the teacher has restricted
Web Browsing.

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Insight
Teacher
Menu
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• The “Insight Console” gives the
teacher access and
administrative control access to
all of the powerful tools available
monitor classroom computers.
• Choose Insight Console from the
popup menu (or just click on the
Own icon in the system tray) to
launch the Insight Console
window.

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Console
&
Menu
Bar
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• The main insight Console window displays a
toolbar that allows you to customize your
viewing environment options.
• The teacher can perform all operations from this
screen including, Blank Screens, Limit Web, etc.

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Details
Views
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• Select “Details” from the dropdown “View”
menu to display a list of all computers
viewable on your teacher channel.
• From the “Details” view, click on the
column name (login name, student name,
or machine name) in the title bar to sort by
that column.
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• TIP: Sorting by the “Machine Name”
column will display the computers in
numerical order.

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Control
Student
Machines
Insight
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• One of the most powerful features of Insight is
the ability to control a single, several, or all
student computers at once.
• Click on the thumbnail icon of any computer/
s that you wish to control.
• The selected machine appears outlined in
red.
• Choose the “Control” icon to assume control
of a student machine.
• The keyboard and mouse will not be available
to the student.
• The student’s screen will appear in your
monitor screen.
• Press the “Control” icon again to toggle off.

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Thumbnail
View
all
Monitors
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• A thumbnail image of all student
screens appears on the teacher
monitor for viewing.
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• Clicking on the “View All” button on
the toolbar will toggle the view
between “Details” and “Thumbnail.
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• There are additional actions
available from the main toolbar if
you click on the arrows at the edge
of the toolbar.
BEST
for
showing
on
projector

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Thumbnail
View
all
Monitors
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• It is very useful for a teacher to be
able to monitor what all students
are doing on their computers at any
given time.
• Once you have your computers in
the order you like to view them
select “View” from the main menu.
• Next, choose “Thumbnails” and
then select “Classroom Layout.”
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• A thumbnail image of all student
screens appears on the teacher
monitor for viewing.

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Show
Teacher
Screen

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Show
Student
Screen
to
Class

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Voting

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Run
Apps
or
Websites

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Taking
Snapshot
of
Student
Screen

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Sending
Student
Messages

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Blanking
Student
Screen

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Limit
Websites
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• One of the most useful actions is the
ability to restrict web browsing to specific
sites.
• Click the Limit Web button and then
choose Configure Web Limiting. This will
launch the configuration window
• Type in the sites that you wish to make
available to students and all other sites
will be blocked.
• Also you can type sites you specifically
wish to block and all others (that are not
restricted by our filters) are available.

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Limit
Apps

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Limit
Apps

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Limit
Print

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Limit
Drives

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Mute

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Sending
Student
Files

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Co-­‐Browsing
the
Internet

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Shut
Down,
Log
Off,
&
Restarting

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Until
Next
Time!
March
26!

52. InSight 101
Monica Dvorsky
Network Enterprise
Engineer
monica_dvorsky@sccoe.org
Martin Cisneros
Academic Technology
Specialist
mcisneros@sccoe.org