Insight Teacher's Assistant

Faronics Insight v9.0 classroom management software is an award-winning software program designed to help teachers teach more effectively in a computer-based classroom.
(Please note that this application will only function in an Insight managed classroom environment.)
The Insight Teacher’s Assistant is Insight’s teacher console for iOS. When paired with an Insight Teacher console running on either Mac or Windows, the Teacher’s Assistant will have the following benefits for teachers, professors or corporate trainers.
Reduce Student Distractions
Teachers can reduce student distractions by Blanking Screens, Limiting Applications, and Limiting Web Browsing on student computers. This helps direct student attention from their computer to the teacher.
Monitor Students
Ideal for monitoring student activity within a classroom setting, the Thumbnail feature allows you to view all screens as well as see the current application and website that the students are running.
Assess Student Understanding
Students can be quickly polled during a lecture with true/false or multiple-choice questions.
Help Individual Students
Students can silently Request Help from the teacher. A small question mark appears on the thumbnail with the student question.
Insight Teacher’s Assistant Features:
Discover Student Computers
The Teacher’s Assistant will automatically discover student computers on the Teacher’s Console channel.
Thumbnails
The Teacher’s Assistant will display re-sizable high color thumbnails of the student computers.
Remote Control
Control Student computers from your iOS device.
Blank Screens
The blank screens messages can be modified and selected from the Teacher’s Assistant.
Voting
True/False, Multiple Choice, or Verbal questions can be sent to the students. Student results are tabulated and shown in real-time to the Teacher’s Assistant.
Send Message
Customized messages can be sent to one, multiple, or all students. Select the students or use the implied all by selecting no students and touch the Send Message icon. Input a message or select an existing message and touch the Send button.
App Limiting
When the Teacher’s Assistant pairs with the Teacher Console, the current app limiting settings are downloaded to the Teacher’s Assistant. To limit apps on the selected students, touch the app limiting icon. An app limiting icon will be displayed on the thumbnail. To stop app limiting touch the app limiting icon again.
Web Limiting
When the Teacher’s Assistant pairs with the Teacher Console, the current web limiting settings are downloaded to the Teacher’s Assistant. To limit the web on the selected students, touch the web limiting icon. A web limiting icon will be displayed on the thumbnail. To stop web limiting touch the web limiting icon again.
Details View
To view the details about a student such as their battery information, last used application, and last visited website, tap a thumbnail twice.
Student Question
Students can raise their hands electronically by clicking on the Insight icon on their computer and typing in a question to the teacher. That question is then displayed on the Teacher’s Assistant.
The Insight Teacher's Assistant for iOS is a free app but it is only functional within an Insight Classroom Management controlled classroom.
This app is designed for iPod touch, iPhone, and iPad.