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Aug 10, 2012
Amy Yoast

CrossTec Classroom Management Platform Adds iOS, Android Support

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CrossTec Classroom Management Platform Adds iOS, Android Support

Teachers can now conduct and guard tyro computers from their iOS and Android mobile inclination or machines using Google Chrome OS and Windows 8, interjection to a new recover of CrossTec’s classroom government program SchoolVue Version 11.

SchoolVue 11 facilities new collection including a “game show” character doubt and answer module. The new procedure enables teachers to select students depending on “their Speed to Answer, Team, Randomly, or allot their scores formed on scold responses,” according to a matter expelled this week by a company.

The updated program also includes softened support for computer-based standardised testing. With a software’s Quick Launch Desktop Controls, teachers can open a Web site or focus on any student’s computer, during a same time.

Other facilities extended in Version 11 include: tie methods, user interface, organisation learning, replay files, tyro toolbar, Active Directory integration, Student Journal, and Tech Console. The program record placement underline now uses UDP for one-to-many transfers.

CrossTec will plead a new facilities in Version 11 in a giveaway webcast on Aug 28. Additional information and a free 30-day evaluation are accessible during a company’s Web site.

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Kanoe Namahoe is online editor for 1105 Media’s Education Group. She can be reached during knamahoe@1105media.com.

Aug 6, 2012
Amy Yoast

CrossTec Classroom Management Platform Adds iOS Android Support

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CrossTec Classroom Management Platform Adds iOS Android Support

Teachers can now conduct and guard tyro computers from their iOS and Android mobile inclination or machines using Google Chrome OS and Windows 8, interjection to a new recover of CrossTec’s classroom government program SchoolVue Version 11.

SchoolVue 11 facilities new collection including a “game show” character doubt and answer module. The new procedure enables teachers to select students depending on “their Speed to Answer, Team, Randomly, or allot their scores formed on scold responses,” according to a matter expelled this week by a company.

The updated program also includes softened support for computer-based standardised testing. With a software’s Quick Launch Desktop Controls, teachers can open a Web site or focus on any student’s computer, during a same time.

Other facilities extended in Version 11 include: tie methods, user interface, organisation learning, replay files, tyro toolbar, Active Directory integration, Student Journal, and Tech Console. The program record placement underline now uses UDP for one-to-many transfers.

CrossTec will plead a new facilities in Version 11 in a giveaway webcast on Aug 28. Additional information and a free 30-day evaluation are accessible during a company’s Web site.

About a Author


Kanoe Namahoe is online editor for 1105 Media’s Education Group. She can be reached during knamahoe@1105media.com.

Aug 2, 2012
Amy Yoast

CrossTec Corporation Releases New SchoolVue Classroom Management … – Virtual

CrossTec provides business with a totally rested chronicle of their best in category Classroom Management Software. CrossTec SchoolVue Version 11 adds harmony with Apple’s iOS mobile height and a Google Android mobile height giving teachers a ability to control and guard tyro computers while divided from their table from their iPad, iPhone, Android phone, or Android tablet. SchoolVue Version 11 also adds harmony with Google Chrome OS and Windows 8. The new pattern includes a sleeker looking user interface and extended collection to offer additional modernized interactive methods of training in digital accessible classrooms.

Boca Raton, FL and Grand Rapids, MI (PRWEB) Aug 01, 2012

CrossTec Corporation announces currently a recover of CrossTec SchoolVue Version 11, a finish modernise of their best in category Classroom Management Software. Version 11 adds harmony with Apple’s iOS mobile height and a Google Android mobile height giving teachers a ability to control and guard tyro computers while divided from their table from their iPad, iPhone, Android phone, or Android tablet. SchoolVue Version 11 also adds harmony with Google Chrome OS and Windows 8. The new pattern includes a sleeker looking user interface and extended collection to offer additional modernized interactive methods of training in digital accessible classrooms.

“We have been operative closely with a business to accumulate feedback and SchoolVue 11 delivers a additional features, functionality, and support they were looking for. SchoolVue 11 is a best resolution for educators looking to streamline record and raise training in their classroom,” pronounced Jeff Richards, VP of CrossTec Corporation.

Among some of a new training collection combined in SchoolVue Version 11 is a “game show” character Questions and Answers Module. This new underline helps boost partnership and adds a bit of liking to organisation lessons or projects. Using this “game show” character focus we can name students formed on their Speed to Answer, Team, Randomly, or allot their scores formed on scold responses.

SchoolVue Version 11 also has extended support for schools who control their standardised contrast by a computer. The Quick Launch Desktop Controls concede teachers to now open a website or focus on each tyro mechanism simultaneously, saving time and worsening and shortening setup time for mechanism formed standardised testing.

CrossTec has taken an already high behaving focus and done it even faster. From ubiquitous usability, to record transfers – classroom monitoring and government has never been better.

What’s New in SchoolVue Version 11:

  •     Enhanced Connection Methods
  •     Enhanced User Interface
  •     Question and Answer Module
  •     Quick Launch Desktop Controls
  •     Enhanced Group Learning
  •     Enhanced Replay Files
  •     Enhanced File Distribution, now utilizing UDP for one-to-many transfers.
  •     Enhanced Student Toolbar
  •     Enhanced Active Directory Integration – New ADMX template files are available.
  •     Enhanced Student Journal
  •     iOS and Android Tutor Assistant
  •     Google Chromebook and Windows 8 Support
  •     Enhanced Tech Console

CrossTec Corporation will be hosting a nominal webinar on Aug 28 to go over a new facilities that chronicle 11 has to offer and also a advantages that organizations can continue by leveraging SchoolVue. To register for a webinar greatfully go to a Registration Page.

Free 30-day evaluations of CrossTec SchoolVue Version 11 can be downloaded from a Evaluations Page, or call (800) 675-0729 to pronounce with an comment manager.

Jul 25, 2012
Amy Yoast

New NetSupport School 11 instruction and government program set to accommodate a …


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MARKHAM, ON, Jul 24, 2012 /CNW/ – Education program specialist
NetSupport is gratified to announce a evident accessibility of
NetSupport School chronicle 11 – a latest expansion of its
market-leading classroom government solution.

Version 11 adds to a product’s peerless operation of PC monitoring,
present comment and partnership collection with over 200 new and
updated facilities – all wrapped in a totally rested interface that
ensures teachers have present entrance to all pivotal features.

New in chronicle 11

Highlights in chronicle 11 embody a new and singular tyro and peer
comment module, a resources of new facilities for technicians, a new
inscription chronicle for teachers, total height support for Windows 8 and
Google Chrome OS and softened record send and video performance.

Built around stream training practices for a continual comment of
learning, a new Question and Answer procedure is an sparkling serve to
NetSupport School’s operation of comment and partnership tools. With
existent facilities such as a tradition Test Designer and present Student
Surveys already giving teachers a ability to electronically assess
tyro attainment, a new procedure is serve explanation that NetSupport has
taken note of stream classroom challenges.

The procedure allows teachers to verbally ask questions to a whole class,
sign tyro answers and understanding, deliver new questioning
styles to a doctrine (such as basketball questioning) and rise peer
comment opportunities, as good as lane rewards opposite both the
particular and, where appropriate, teams.

Supporting New Technologies

Schools are increasingly embracing new PC technologies and in recent
years NetSupport has introduced support for environments including
thin/zero customer computing, depot server, practical desktops and
common apparatus computing.

The Google Chromebook is a latest cost-effective, easy-to-manage
computing resolution set to put record into a hands of more
students and, from chronicle 11, NetSupport School provides support for
a Chrome OS.

NetSupport also hasn’t abandoned a impact that hand-held record is
now carrying in a complicated training environment.

When interconnected with an existent NetSupport School Windows desktop Tutor,
NetSupport’s new Tutor Assistant app (compatible with both Apple iOS
and Android tablets as good as, uniquely, iOS and Android smartphones
and accessible as a giveaway download from a Apple iTunes store and Google
Play) increases a teacher’s mobility around a classroom, enabling
them to keep pivotal control and monitoring of all tyro workstations.
It also allows training assistants to improved support a purpose of the
clergyman in monitoring tyro progress.

Enhanced and Improved

School technicians and network managers can demeanour brazen to a major
modernise of NetSupport School’s Tech Console – delivering a series of
additional complement and process government collection including a ability to
request a new set of school-wide internet, application, printer and USB
restrictions that are operational 24 hours a day, a new security
monitoring underline highlighting any computers that have potential
vulnerabilities formed on pre-defined criteria, as good as additional
technician collection such as remote registry editing, a remote command
prompt and extended register capabilities.

The already-unique Digital Student Journal choice has been further
extended to assist in doctrine recording and urge a sustenance of
calm for students outward of a classroom. Teachers and students
can now continue adding calm to an existent ‘master’ biography in
successive lessons. Teachers can supplement chapters to a journal, create
bookmarks and even synchronise blank calm in their biography with a
tyro who has missed a lesson.

The Record and Replay underline is another area of existent functionality
to bear a makeover. The underline provides a ideal apparatus for
building a library of accessible demonstrations, possibly prisoner in class
or pre-recorded for destiny doctrine use. Version 11 introduces a Video
Editor; permitting Replay Files to be embellished and edited before being
exported to common video formats.

The singular Student Toolbar in NetSupport School has also been enhanced,
providing present entrance to doctrine objectives and approaching outcomes,
additional options for silently requesting assistance from a Teacher or
Assistant, discerning entrance to USB resources as good as swell tracking
of any electronically delivered coursework.

And if you’re looking for a resolution that optimises a smoothness of
files between machines, you’ll really be gratified with the
opening improvements that have been introduced into chronicle 11.
File and video send opening is now 10x faster and uses adult to
50% reduction network bandwidth than any allied resolution available.

Commenting on a new version, NetSupport’s Managing Director, Al
Kingsley, said: “The IT landscape of a complicated propagandize continues to
change and classroom government program vendors need to safeguard their
solutions sojourn relevant. New computing platforms not usually provide
moving training environments for students but, some-more than ever,
teachers have a event to lift training practices by the
use of technology.

“NetSupport School 11 is an sparkling step brazen on a highway to
ensuring a resolution continues to accommodate stream challenges. The product
has undergone a finish visible refresh, many existent facilities have
been extended and a new and singular total functionality is certain to
interest to a preparation community.

“The Question and Answer procedure adds to a set of collaborative tools
and serve aids a teacher’s ability to now consider student
understanding. And with mobile record high on a agenda, a Tutor
Assistant app for tablets and mobile phones is set to renovate a way
teachers correlate with students within a ICT suite.

“We’ve also been discerning to acknowledge a impact Google Chrome is likely
to have opposite preparation along with a tentative recover of Windows 8
and this, total with a product’s endless underline set, ensures
NetSupport School 11 is really fit for purpose in a 21st century classroom.”

While NetSupport School continues to lift a bar for Windows-based
classroom management, NetSupport has also recognized a presentation of
a multi-platform classroom. NetSupport Assist, launched in Spring
2011 and recently named Network Computing Magazine’s 2012 New Product
of a Year, delivers a focused set of classroom government collection for
Mac® and Linux environments. The serve of Assist to a company’s
preparation portfolio saw NetSupport turn a initial classroom
government program businessman to offer concordant solutions across
Windows, Mac® and Linux environments, providing finish coherence for mixed
height classrooms.

Visit www.netsupportschool.com for an in-depth overview of a new facilities and to download a free
40-PC hearing copy.

About NetSupport

Headquartered in a UK, NetSupport has been delivering market-leading
remote control and desktop government program solutions to corporate
and preparation business given 1989. In late 2011, a association reached
a miracle of a 10 millionth looseness sale.

Its flagship products are a rarely successful NetSupport Manager
remote control and PC government focus and NetSupport School, the
market-leading classroom government and training program resolution for
Windows®.

NetSupport’s elaborating product operation also includes: NetSupport DNA,
delivering modernized craving item management; web-based
ITIL-compliant occurrence government resolution NetSupport ServiceDesk;
NetSupport Notify, a mass presentation and desktop alerting apparatus and
NetSupport Protect, a confidence apparatus designed to strengthen a calm and
pattern of desktop PCs. The latest serve to a operation is
NetSupport Assist, a classroom monitoring resolution for Mac® and Linux environments.

NetSupport solutions and their derivatives are sole worldwide and enjoy
market-leading standing in many countries. NetSupport is recognized as
one of a fastest- flourishing record companies in a EU and was
recently awarded Education ICT Exporter of a Year during a BETT Awards,
became winners during a Network Computing awards in 2012 for a fourth
uninterrupted year, and was a finalist during a 2012 Education Resources
Awards. NetSupport is a member of BESA.

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Jul 21, 2012
Kelly Westbrook

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Jul 19, 2012
Linda Rudell

Teaching partner from Woodlands Primary School, Ellesmere Port, receives …



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Jul 13, 2012
Tim Reeves

Innovations in ICT teaching: a Guardian roundtable debate

Last August, Eric Schmidt, a executive authority of Google, lighted discuss among educators, industrialists and policy-makers when he suggested that he was “flabbergasted to learn that, today, mechanism scholarship isn’t even taught as customary in UK schools”. He went on: “Your IT curriculum focuses on training how to use software, though gives no discernment into how it’s made. That is usually throwing divided your good computing heritage.”

The greeting to his discuss suggested that Schmidt was observant what many were already thinking. In February, a Next Gen report, created by record attention heavyweights Ian Livingstone and Alex Hope, had argued that a British video gaming and visible effects attention was losing a edge, in partial since a ICT curriculum in schools was focused on bureau skills rather than programming skills. The Royal Society’s report, Shut Down or Restart?, published in Jan this year, described a training of computing in schools as “highly unsatisfactory”.

In January, spurred on by Schmidt’s speech, a Guardian launched a digital preparation discuss in partnership with Google to urge a training of ICT. The preparation secretary, Michael Gove, meanwhile, announced that a stream ICT curriculum, that he described as “demotivating and dull”, would be transposed by a “flexible curriculum in mechanism scholarship and programming”, a calm of that is to be announced in September.

Some of a pivotal issues in improving a training of ICT in schools were discussed during a new discuss on digital preparation hosted by a Guardian in organization with Google. The discuss was hold underneath a Chatham House rule, that allows comments to be reported though attribution, to enthuse an open discussion.

ICT curriculum

The roundtable listened that a stream ICT curriculum in schools, formed on training office-based software, was not equipping children with a skills they, or industry, need. “Children know how to devour record though not how to emanate it,” one writer said. As a effect children have mislaid seductiveness in study computing: a series of mechanism scholarship graduates has been descending for several years, and a nation now has a necessity of technological innovators. “Against all odds, we’ve managed to put them off record for life,” pronounced one participant, suggesting that a concentration on training pupils regulating elementary program over a duration of years had “squeezed a artistic juices out of them”.

Yet participants concluded that children were eager about a thought of training some-more in-depth ICT skills. They should be given a event to find out either they would be matched to a career in coding. “Every child should be given a possibility to learn that they have a aptitude,” pronounced one contributor. Israel was cited as one instance where a training of mechanism programming had been introduced in schools over a past 12 years and was now a universe personality in technical innovation.

Digital preparation covers a spectrum of skills, from a ability to use elementary applications during one finish to a ability to write mechanism programs during a other. Other mid-level skills, such as regulating HTML to emanate websites, tumble in between. The roundtable concluded that all children should have a event to learn to use digital technology. “Digital preparation contingency take a place alongside reading, essay and numeracy as a unequivocally profitable member of ubiquitous mercantile success,” pronounced one contributor. Coding indispensable to be taught in schools, not usually since a record attention indispensable glorious coders, though since it was useful in a whole operation of jobs. “It’s going to assistance everybody, even people who don’t turn mechanism scientists,” pronounced one contributor.

However, it was felt that many children were still unknowingly of a pursuit opportunities accessible in ICT or a fact that people who worked in technology-only occupations warranted a third some-more than those operative in non-technology occupations. Businesses should be speedy to yield improved routes into ICT careers by providing apprenticeships, pronounced one attention participant.

There was also a miss of recognition of opportunities in ICT, that was exacerbated by a snobbishness pervading a preparation system, participants were told. Subjects such as maths and production were some-more rarely valued than mechanism scholarship and engineering, a writer said, and middle-class relatives wanted their children to turn lawyers and accountants, not mechanism programmers.

The nation indispensable to residence a problem of a digital divide, participants agreed. Despite an beginning by a final supervision to supply low-income homes with broadband and PCs, it was remarkable that many children from poorer families still didn’t have entrance to computers during home, hampering their ability to turn efficient users.

Participants concluded that if schools wanted to welcome digital literacy, they indispensable to take a reduction discreet opinion towards ICT. Many children were eager and assured smartphone users, it was said, and schools that anathema mobile phones missed out on a event to use them as training collection in a classroom. Some teachers found it tough to cope with students being some-more during palliate with record than they were. “We have to make teachers feel gentle with a fact that some of their pupils will know some-more about these technologies than they do. It doesn’t meant they know some-more training about regulating these technologies,” pronounced one contributor. An attention member voiced regard that a vigour of fasten tables done schools demure to examination and innovate.

Contributors argued that some schools were doing an glorious pursuit of creation ICT sparkling within a constraints of a curriculum. In others, however, a miss of competent teachers could infer a supervision plea when it comes to implementing a new curriculum. The indicate was done that in delegate schools many of a existent conspirator of ICT teachers started out training business studies – they had small or no coding imagination and might be demure to learn a new curriculum.

The doubt of digital reserve was also lifted and concurred to be a critical emanate for schools, generally primaries, and quite around a need for severe controls to strengthen children on a internet. Technological controls, such as firewalls that shorten entrance to certain sites, need to be complemented with educating children about a dangers from a really immature age. “The internet is like any city – it has a sewers, though we learn a kids not to lift a manholes adult and dive into a sewers,” pronounced one attention contributor.

Participants praised a work of a Computing during School (CAS) operative group, a weed roots organization that is ancillary teachers by providing them with good peculiarity curriculum materials, training and a event to accommodate like-minded colleagues. One instance from a resources of giveaway internet resources accessible for teachers, a roundtable heard, was Scratch, a visible programming denunciation that teachers can learn in a matter of hours and can be used to learn children how to emanate animations and games.

Using a comparatively elementary collection of HTML and CSS, primary propagandize teachers can enthuse pupils to emanate websites, pronounced one contributor. “I’d like to see a denunciation of a web as a bedrock of programming in primary schools,” they said. Another member eager about a seminar run by Decoded, that teaches people essential coding skills that capacitate them to emanate a web-based focus in a day.

However, regard was voiced about a miss of earthy resources. One writer pronounced that their propagandize had invested in laptops for each child 6 years ago, and that nonetheless a laptops were good used, there was no income to reinstate them. It was also felt that income spent on ICT had not always been targeted effectively. The final supervision spent vast sums on equipping schools with ICT hardware since of a prevalent faith that ICT was “transformational”, though not all schools had been means to make good use of it, one member said.

It was suggested that schools would have to demeanour elsewhere for support. Parents were an glorious untapped resource, and one member pronounced that their propagandize had benefited from fasten a Microsoft IT Academy programme which, for an annual fee, supposing schools with training resources and veteran growth for staff.

Some attention participants felt that businesses could do most some-more to support schools – for example, by enlivening their possess staff to assistance out in a classroom or run after-school mechanism clubs. Google had already announced plans, a roundtable heard, to support a Teach First gift by appropriation a training of 100 scholarship and mechanism scholarship teachers over a subsequent 3 years who would work with children in bad areas.

The roundtable concluded that by creation digital preparation a elemental partial of a preparation system, not usually will schools be equipping children with critical collection for a complicated workplace, they will be laying a belligerent for a subsequent era of mechanism scientists and innovators. “We don’t all need to be mechanism scientists,” pronounced one participant, “but we need to give everybody a opportunity, and a good ones will follow through.”

At a table

• Phillip Inman (chair), economics correspondent, The Guardian

• Rosemary Luckin, highbrow of learner-centred design, The London Knowledge Lab

• Peter Barron, executive of outmost relations, Europe, Middle East, Africa, Google

• Dr Peter Dickman, engineering manager, Google

• Matthew Harrison, director, education, Royal Academy of Engineering

• Dr Jane Overbury, principal, Christ a King sixth-form college

• Ian Livingstone, co-founder, Games Workshop, Fighting Fantasy, White Dwarf, Eidos Interactive

• Dr Albin Wallace, executive executive of investigate and development, a Education Fellowship

• Neil McArthur, creation director, TalkTalk

• Alasdair Blackwell, director, Decoded

• Lucy Heller, handling director, Ark Schools

• Sam White, headteacher, William Ellis School

• Alan Mycroft, highbrow of computing, University of Cambridge; trustee, Raspberry Pi Foundation

• Chris Mairs, arch scientist, Metaswitch Networks

• Vanessa Ogden, headteacher, Mulberry propagandize for girls

• Alan Mills, director, Schools Funding Network

• David Sands, headteacher, Norbury Manor high propagandize for girls


Roundtable news consecrated and tranquil by a Guardian. Discussion hosted to a brief concluded with Google. Paid for by Google. Contact Sunita Gordon 020 3353 2447 for information on roundtables or revisit guardian.co.uk/sponsored-content

Jul 10, 2012
Kelly Westbrook

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Jul 9, 2012
Kelly Westbrook

One in 25 schoolchildren gets extra support

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Jun 16, 2012
Amy Yoast

Confronting a genuine problem in nation’s schools

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