Imagine classroom management software that’s as easy to work with as it is relevant to what you’re teaching. A solution that combines a rich variety of classroom management features with flipped classroom and blended learning tools that improve educational results in today’s digital learning environments. Whether your students use the iPad, smart devices or PCs, Vision Pro provides unsurpassed demonstration and teaching and assessment tools that improve learning outcomes.
What can I do with it?
Stream videos on your students’ screens, fast and in sync. Teach graphics-intensive subjects like CAD. With Vision Pro, you can take any software you’re running and share it on your students’ computers in real time. You can select the websites you want your students to have access to, or just pick a few you want to keep off limits. Demo from your PC to your students’ smart devices. It makes using technology in the classroom smoother, easier and more professional. And that’s just the beginning of what web-based blended learning can do for your classroom.
New in Vision Pro: Create assessments anywhere, run quizzes during class time, or assign tests outside of the classroom – perfect for flipped learning. Provides automatic scoring and compiles results data in easy-to-use reports. Learn more
Get the most out of the technology in your classroom
Want the best? It’s like Vision… only better Vision Pro offers all the same features as Netop Vision, the classroom management software that teachers across the world depend on when using technology in the classroom. But it goes further. Three powerful enhancements make the difference:
Class-Wide Remote Login: In single sign-in environments, get all your computers logged in with a click, from your desk, so they’ll be ready as soon as students arrive
Web-Based Assessment Software: Create and administer assessments for student use in class or at home – perfect for flipped classrooms.
Manage Your PC From Your iPad: Unchain yourself from your desk and manage your classroom from your iPad with Vision Mobile
Ultimate Website Control Use block lists and site filters to restrict certain sites, while still allowing students access to the Internet
What are the benefits of Vision Pro classroom management software?
Actually, it’s the best This software sets the standard. Dynamic lesson presentation directly on student computers or tablets make teaching with technology intuitive and engaging, from high-speed screen sharing to cloud-based tools for flipped classrooms. Do you want ultimate web control and class-wide remote login? How about creating and running quizzes and tests in and out of class? It’s all here in Vision Pro.
Ideal for 1:1 and BYOD programs With demonstration, annotation, and assessment features designed for student web-enabled smart devices – iPad, Android, Chromebook, and more – Vision Pro helps your 1:1 and BYOD programs succeed.
Plus it’s really easy to learn You’re busy. We know. Even the most awesome classroom tool isn’t practical if it takes too long to learn. That’s why, when it comes to the learning curve, at Netop we aim for no curve at all. This web-based learning software has a refreshingly simple interface for using technology in the classroom, paired with a remarkably intuitive layout.
Classroom Screen Monitoring Software for a Bird’s Eye View
Supervise student work and monitor their computers, right from your screen
Keep an eye on web browsing… notice when someone needs help… catch distractions as they arise and keep students on task…
The screen-monitoring tool is the heart of classroom management software. It gives you the bird’s eye view you need to guide your students’ progress, be at their side as soon as you’re needed, and get the most from your class time.
Even if you’re walking your classroom continuously, you can’t be everywhere at once. But with screen-monitoring software, your computer displays a thumbnail image for each student’s screen. As soon as someone gets distracted or needs help, you can see it happen, right from your desk.
Advantages of Classroom Screen Monitoring Software
Keep an eye on each computer in your class
Help a confused student before they get too far in the wrong direction
Redirect someone as soon as they get distracted
See a thumbnail view of the entire class at a glance
Enlarge a student’s screen for more details; collapse it when you’re done
Scroll through screens automatically or at your own pace
In Live View mode, Vision screen-monitoring lets you follow a student’s work in real time
Classroom Screen Sharing Software Lets You Demonstrate
Share your screens and display your presentations on student computers
Introduce a new activity to the class… show a small group what to do next… pull aside someone who’s stuck and walk them through it one-on-one…
Giving your students a full-screen view of your display opens a lot of doors.
It also gives you their undivided attention. When your screen appears on your students’ computers or smart devices, they focus on the lesson, which means better comprehension and concept retention.
Showing a movie? Everyone gets a front-row seat with our classroom screen sharing software. Demonstrating something complex? Screen sharing puts the concepts front and center, making learning much more effective for your students.
A high-speed screen sharing solution
Vision classroom management software takes classroom screen sharing to a new level, leading the industry and setting the bar. With Vision, you can share any application with your students – even the most technically intensive – in real time, in sync, seamlessly.
If you’re working with high-res graphics, or demonstrating AutoCAD or streaming video from PowerDVD or Quicktime, you’ll recognize a noticeable difference in quality between Vision and other classroom management solutions.
Share your screen with any student device:
Share screens with an individual, a group or the whole class
Broadcast MPEG, AVI, Quicktime and Flash movies/ animations
Classroom screen sharing gives everyone a front-row seat
Share graphics-intensive applications in real time
Stream videos without getting out of sync
Display any application you’re running on your students’ screens
Best-in-class performance for seamless demos
Expanded sharing capabilities for student PCs:
Lock student keyboards and mice to eliminate distraction
Select full screen, close screen, or minimize display
Keep your demonstration available for student reference
How to Restrict Internet Access & Guide Students Online?
Decide which websites are available or off-limits, for any student, at any time
Block a website as soon as it becomes a distraction… allow limited web access during a test… select which resources you want your students to use…
The Internet is full of potential for the classroom; it’s also rife with distractions – which makes you wonder: how to restrict Internet access while still providing your students the powerful online tools they need?
Vision: Site Filters Let You Control Student Web Access
In Vision, to controlling student internet access is Site Filters.
The Site Filters tool lets you create a Resource List including all the websites you want your students to use, while putting the rest of the Internet off limits. For instance, it lets you show your class a particular YouTube video, without giving them free access to YouTube as a whole. Use Site Filters to limit online research, narrow your students’ focus, prevent distraction and even allow online research during tests.
Vision Pro: Ultimate Classroom Internet Access Control
Vision Pro goes further, letting you create not only Resource Lists, but Block Lists too.
Block Lists let your students use the Internet freely – just with a few exceptions. You decide which sites are inappropriate or distracting, and remove those only, while continuing to let your students tap into the creative resources of the Internet at large. Need to keep your students off Facebook while they’re doing Internet research? Create a block list, add Facebook’s URL and leave them to work without the distractions.
It’s a more expansive solution for how to restrict Internet access in your classroom and guide your students’ use of the web.
What you can do with Vision
Turn Internet access on or off for one student, a group or the whole class
Create resource lists easily, right within your browser
Modify your lists instantly, at any time
Approved websites display in student browsers automatically as soon as you update a list
Vision Pro takes you further:
Create block lists as well as resource lists
Remove distracting websites at any time, even during class
Allow free use of the Internet; make exceptions as needed
Mix and match Block and Resource lists, a fully customizable solution for how to restrict Internet access in class and manage your students’ online work
Ensure appropriate use of school computers
Tips & Tricks: Allow, filter, lock – Control Internet use in class and during lessons
The Internet is a dynamic structure that offers a lot of potential for teaching and learning, but it’s also rife with distractions. How can you restrict Internet access while still providing students with the important online resources they need? With Vision and Vision Pro, you decide which websites are accessible during class and which are not.
In our Tips & Tricks, we’ll show you step-by-step how to:
Block web access
Create and apply resource lists and (permitted web sites)
Create and apply block lists (blacklist)
Export lists for other teacher computers on a USB stick
Online Learning and Assessment System
Tools for blended learning and flipped classrooms
Learning Center is a web-based assessment tool that supports blended learning and flipped classrooms. With the Learning Center, teachers can post lesson materials online and create assessments to easily evaluate student learning. Engage student attention in the classroom with interactive polls and surveys like a student response system. Or integrate quizzes with video lessons to provide a self-paced online learning and assessment tool. Responses are scored automatically and compiled in easy-to-use reports that provide instant feedback and improve learning outcomes.
The Learning Center is available as part of an integrated solution with either Netop’s Vision Pro classroom management software or the new Vision ME iPad classroom workflow app.
Ideal for blended learning, our web-based assessment tools let you:
Share teaching materials, lessons and online content
Create class sites, post lesson materials, and link to content online for students to access anywhere. Upload a variety of files to share –images, videos, PDFs, MP3s, and more. You can also use SCORM packages, which ensure that your e-learning content can be used across multiple software products your school or district might use.
Create polls, surveys, quizzes and assessments
Use Learning Center like a student response system, stimulating learning with interactive polls and quizzes that engage your class. Results are available instantaneously for classroom discussion. No clickers required, Learning Center works on any smart device with web access.
Or use Learning Center to support independent study and in-depth assessments of student learning. There’s even an interactive video assessment capability that lets you embed questions into video lessons – perfect for flipped classrooms!
Flexible test question types
A variety of flexible question types support your curriculum:
Multiple Choice
Fill in the blank
Matching drop down
Point and click
Multiple answers
Sequence drop down
Numeric
Matching drag and drop
Sequence drag and drop
Set your own pacing options
Your assessments can be self-paced for individual work, or teacher-paced so that the whole class gets a chance to answer the question before you move on. A third option prompts students with questions at key points within video lessons.
Automatically score your assessments
The Learning Center provides automatic scoring so you can see what students have mastered, and areas where they need additional help. Export scores into csv files to enter into gradebooks.
Provide instant feedback to students
Students can receive instant feedback on each question in real time as they take the test, and review their overall score once they have taken a test or quiz. Students can also monitor their own progress over time with access to all of their online results.
Generate detailed reporting
View automatically-generated reports by student to personalize instruction, or by question to understand what part of the lesson your class needs extra help with. Much simpler and faster than grading and analyzing yourself, the reports show you the data instantly so you can adjust instruction as needed.
Language Support
Learning Center is available in eleven languages. The Learning Center user interface automatically appears in the preferred language indicated by the user’s browser settings, or may be selected when setting up your account.
Languages supported: English, Czech, Deutsch, Dutch, Finnish, French, Italian, Japanese, Russian, Spanish and Swedish.
Licensing
The Learning Center is available as part of an integrated solution with either Netop’s Vision Pro classroom management software or the new Vision ME iPad classroom workflow app.
Vision Pro customers: The Learning Center is included free with your purchase of Vision Pro for all customers with a current Netop ADV program. Please note that the number of user logins for class kits and other types of licenses is limited. Because Vision Pro Learning Center is web-based, it is ideal for school-wide licensing via campus licenses. In addition, because this is a hosted service, access is provided only as long as the customer maintains a current ADV.
Vision ME Customers: Vision ME is licensed as an annual subscription on a per user basis. Your annual Vision ME subscription includes access to the Learning Center and Vision ME for each user for one low price.
There are limits on data storage for both Vision Pro and Vision ME customers
Technical requirements
Learning Center runs on any computer or smart device with a web browser and Internet access.
The Showcase Student Screen Sharing and Demonstration Tool
Let students display their screens directly on other student computers
Let a student show off their work… allow student demonstrations… harness what they know to help their classmates understand…
With Vision’s Showcase Student tool, your students can demonstrate to the entire class, directly from their own computer. It’s an excellent way to showcase good work. It’s perfect for class presentations, too.
Student demonstrations give you a way to keep your top students interested in the lesson, even when they’re getting ahead of the others. Instead of making them wait while their classmates catch up, you can harness the opportunity to let them apply what they know, demonstrate to the class and help their peers succeed.
When you reward excellent work in this way, you give the whole class an incentive to do a great job.
What you can do with it
Give students incentive to take pride in their work
Build classroom cohesion by letting students help each other
Keep top-level students engaged through student demonstrations
Provide a streamlined way for students to conduct class presentations
You decide whose work to showcase and share
You decide when to start and stop the screen-share
Everyone Starts at the Same Time with Classroom Management Tools from Netop
Open files, load web pages and start applications for the entire class
Here’s how class used to begin:
The bell rings, and everyone takes their seat. You give your class an instruction: “Please go to the school’s website,” or, “Please open the file I sent you.” Then you wait. Some students are on task; others are talking to each other. You redirect them, and wait. Some computers are slower to load than others. The students with faster systems are starting to fidget. One student typed the web address incorrectly, and they need help. You address this with them, and wait…
Sound familiar?
Good news: With Netop’s classroom management tools, you can skip the lost time and jump straight into your lesson. Simply load the file on your computer, and with Vision’s Start Application tool, it simultaneously loads on every other screen in your class, too. Your students are all in the same place, at the same time, ready to go.
Advantages of the Start Application classroom tool
Get into your lesson faster, with fewer headaches
Eliminate lost transition time, gain class time
Ensure all your students are ready to start when you are
Start applications on student screens remotely
Send every student to the same web page in one move
Open the same file on everyone’s computer simultaneously
Remote Control Student Computers
Operate any computer, right from your desk with classroom management software
Fix a problem for someone who’s confused… jump in and demonstrate… skip the explanations, and get an assignment started…
Sometimes the fastest way to get someone on task is to take the reins for a moment.
When one of your students is facing a roadblock or doing something inappropriate, classroom Remote Control lets you take over. If someone is stuck and doesn’t know how to move forward, it lets you step in and model what you want them to do. If they’re confused by a technical difficulty, you can fix it for them quickly, so they can get back to work.
What you can do with it
Take command of any student’s computer with classroom Remote Control
Demonstrate on your student’s screen, right from your workstation
Classroom Remote Control lets you quickly redirect inappropriate behavior
Resolve technical difficulties for students simply and efficiently
Limit Student Computer Use to the Programs You Select
Restrict your students’ computer use to the applications you’ve opened for them
Limit access to files and websites during tests… focus class attention on the assignment… remove distractions on classroom computers…
Kiosk mode lets you lock your students’ computers so the applications you open for them are the only ones they can access.
Automatically launch and control computer applications
When you launch an application in Kiosk mode, it automatically launches on each computer in your class. Your students can’t exit applications in Kiosk mode. If you open more than one application at a time – for example, a website and a spreadsheet – they’re free to go back and forth between these, but they can’t close them, open something else, access the desktop or restart their computers.
Kiosk mode is a great way to focus attention if your class is getting distracted by games or other files on their computers. If you’re giving a test, it lets you decide which resources they can access while they work. And by simplifying the overall activity in the room, it makes it easier to keep everyone on task and learning.
What you can do with it
Simplify classroom activity to make it easier to monitor students
Control which resources your students can access during tests
Make sure students aren’t using off-limits files, websites or applications
Open applications for a student, a group or the whole class
Lock computers so students can’t exit the applications you open for them
Tips & Tricks: Launch and control applications on student computers
Increase efficiency and focus student attention.
Netop Vision allows you to launch applications on all student computers simultaneously. With Kiosk mode, you draw the attention of students to selected applications. Kiosk mode allows students unlimited use of the selected application, but prevents them from accessing other areas of their computer. Avoid distractions and ensure that the entire class learns together. Excellent for class work and tests.
For example, when you start Microsoft Word in Kiosk mode, students are limited to using that application. The students see only Word on their desktops. They do not have access to other applications: the start menu is not available; the taskbar at the bottom of the screen is locked; and students cannot launch Windows Explorer to search for other programs.
Blank Computer Screens, Lock Keyboards, and Demand Attention
Make your students’ computer screens instantly go blank
Get your class’s undivided attention… end a test on time… eliminate distractions during a lecture…
A blank screen is a wonderful thing.
Put briefly, it means you no longer have to compete for your students’ attention. When you blank screens in your classroom, your students’ keyboards and mice lock at the same time; websites, games and assignments disappear in one click, heads come up and eyes focus on you.
When you’re giving an in-class assignment or test, the Blank Screen tool lets you stop everyone’s work the moment time is up. It lets you pause inappropriate behavior instantly. When you’re lecturing on something new or making an announcement, it helps your class pay attention.
What you can do with it
Blank students’ screens, locking keyboards and mice at the same time
Get the attention of an individual, a group or the whole class
Stop inappropriate behavior instantly
Customize the blank screen with text or an image
Sharing Classroom Files Has Never Been Easier
Distribute files, collect tests, send quizzes and get students’ responses
Send your students a writing prompt… provide them a document to work from… automatically collect their assignments…
Passing out papers used to take a lot of time. With Vision’s Chat tool, now you can do it in a click.
Vision file sharing solutions put an end to “Take one, pass it down”
Pop quiz? Send out your questions, and automatically collect the answers back once the test is done. Handouts? Distribute them directly to your students’ computers: quick and orderly. Forms to fill out? Research documents to reference? Chat makes it easy, letting you share files between computers whenever you need to.
What you can do with it
Spend more time teaching, less time getting started
Send tests, forms and assignments to your students in a click
Share files between computers in your classroom
Collect files back automatically when students are finished
The power of your desktop…from your iPad
Your computer is a powerful tool, but it’s hard to carry it around the classroom with you, which is a problem for anyone who wants to teach with technology without running back and forth or sitting chained to their desk.
Netop Vision Mobile channels the full functionality of your desktop computer into your iPad, freeing you to walk the classroom, stand by a student’s side and be where you’re needed – while still able to use all the functions on your computer. You get the power of your desktop…in your hand.
What can I do with it?
The classroom management solution that lets you teach with technology without being chained to your desk.
Run a presentation from anywhere in the room. Maintain presence among your students, without losing access to your desktop. When class meets in the library and you need a file, you don’t have to run back to your room to get it: you can pull it up on your iPad. Better yet, when combined with Vision or Vision Pro, Vision Mobile lets you actively manage and monitor each of your students’ computers from your iPad, whether you’re at their side, at your desk or walking the room.
Advantages of Netop’s Vision Mobile iPad Classroom App
Untie yourself from your desk Stretch your legs. You don’t have to be stuck at your desk anymore to teach with your computer. Vision Mobile lets you access any resource on your desktop, from anywhere in your classroom, the moment you need it.
Robust, intuitive, familiar The Vision Mobile touch-screen lets you tap, flick, pinch open, pinch close – all the iOS gestures you’re already using. It also puts standard desktop controls at your fingertips: drag and drop, full keyboard, hot keys and right/left mouse button control. And when combined with Vision or Vision Pro, it provides full iPad classroom management functionality (not a stripped-down toolset) from the same Vision dashboard.
The best of the best in speed and security Highly reliable connectivity, with or without Internet access. Password protection, so your data stays secure. Real-time screen transfer, making commands and screen-changes instantaneous. When it comes to speed and security, Netop Vision Mobile leads the pack.
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