Faronics Insight
FARONICS INSIGHT
MINIMIZE DISTRACTIONS, ENGAGE STUDENTS, TAKE LEARNING TO THE NEXT LEVEL
Learning in the 21st century classroom has totally leveled-up. With the help of technology, lessons have become more interactive and engaging both for students and teachers. However, employing technology comes with its own challenges, especially to those who are used to the traditional way of teaching.
With Faronics Insight, managing your classroom is easier than ever. You can keep your students engaged through the broadcasting and sharing features, have one-on-one conversations without disrupting the rest of the class with the built-in chat, and plan the perfect learning pace with the testing and voting features to help you gauge student understanding.
It also has a Teacher Console which enables you to eliminate distractions from surfing the web to online gaming. You will also have the ability to rotate through student screens and project them in front of the class. Faronics Insight also has a handy Tech Console for IT Administrators, so you can provide remote support to teachers and students alike. It’s loaded with basic desktop management features to schedule tasks remotely, monitor security risks, keep PCs up to date, report on technology usage, and even control Faronics Deep Freeze if you have one installed.
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Discover how this Classroom Management Software enables teachers and students to make every discussion engaging.
Why Teach with Faronics Insight?
Enable Your IT to Manage Everything
Eliminate the headache of managing multiple labs, schools, and networks through Faronics’ Central Management function.
- Minimize lesson disruption and provide remote support to classrooms anytime, anywhere.
- Gain control to every aspect of your PCs with the FREE Tech Console which includes desktop management tools to stay on top of inventory, assets, software updates, security, and even control of Faronics Deep Freeze.
Monitor Student Activity
Use the classroom monitoring feature to see what your students are up to.
- Keep students focused by blocking certain access to certain programs, website, or even the internet when class is in session.
- Use the share student screen option to share to the class what their classmates are doing on a class project. You can also take a snapshot of their screen if you catch them using the PC inappropriately.
- Monitor running applications and internet history to ensure students are on task.
- Take control of your student’s PC. You can blank student screens, mute audio, remote into their computers, open, close, and block applications or web activity on student workstations.
- Eliminate student access to USB and CD/DVD drives with the click of a button.
Promote Student Collaboration
Communicate in new ways through audio, chat, or broadcast features.
- Deliver interactive lessons to keep students engaged and promote collaboration.
- Give students a hands-on learning experience by sharing your screen or a student’s screen to the rest of the class.
- Get a quick pulse on your students’ learning pace by using the voting tool to involve your pupils in the decision-making skills.
- Instantly launch websites on all your students’ workstations at the same time to start lessons faster.
Accelerate Student Learning
Allow students to request and receive help directly into their device.
- Provide one-on-one assistance to students without disrupting the lesson for the rest of the class.
- Interact with students directly through their computers.
- Develop cooperative classrooms where learning is achieved through collaboration and real-time communication.
Advance Through Technology without Complexity
Minimize your learning curve because Faronics Insight is designed with instructors in mind.
- Become familiar with how the software works and the features that are available within just a few minutes of using Faronics Insight.
- Eliminate the need of tedious research to understand the network bandwidth requirements which are a fraction of that required by competing products – making Insight extremely popular with IT personnel.
- Deploy an easy-to-use teaching product that won’t generate help-desk requests or slow network traffic.
Enhance Knowledge-sharing
Share screens to show your pupils how things should be done.
- Strengthen teaching effectiveness by having control over educational technology.
- Increase communication efficiency, allowing Teachers to send and collect files, send students messages, and hold classroom votes from one central console allowing to keep classrooms focused and limit the applications and websites that students can access.
Key Technical Advantages
Works with Subnets and VLANS
Insight functions across subnets and VLANs using Multicast and Directed Broadcast technology. Port 796 is the only port required.
Unbeatable Support Policy
Insight comes with free telephone and e-mail support.
Low Processor and Memory Requirements
Insight only requires about 4% of the processor and 8 MB of memory on the client.
Low Network Bandwidth
Insight requires between 5% and 20% of the bandwidth used by the competition. While showing the teacher’s screen, Insight uses around 24 KB/sec. Monitoring thumbnails requires less than 10 KB/sec. Because Insight uses a broadcast or multicast packet, the bandwidth required for controlling two computers is close to that required by 250 computers.
Reliability and Security
Insight thwarts attempts by students to disrupt the class by disabling the software. Insight students will re-join the session if the network is unplugged, the service will re-start automatically, and registry keys are protected from change. There is also a “secure” version of Insight that requires teachers to enter a password to open the console.
Need to know more? Hear it straight from the experts!
We are always ready to answer your questions and tell you more about what this solution can do for your organization – you can also schedule a FREE online or on-site demo with us!