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This app is for use with classroom.cloud, the easy breezy, low-cost, cloud-based classroom management, teaching and safeguarding platform for schools.
classroom.cloud delivers a set of stress-free, simple yet effective cloud-based teaching, online safety/safeguarding and technician tools that help deliver engaging and meaningful learning experiences for students in a safe online environment – no matter the location of you and your students!
Once your school has registered online with classroom.cloud, the app can be easily deployed by the IT team to student iPads (iOS 11 and above), enabling teachers to connect instantly and securely to the devices from the cloud-based Teacher console at the start of a lesson.
When connected to the Teacher Console, the app offers (within a Browser Window) a range of tools, allowing real-time interaction between student and teacher.
And, if classroom.cloud's Safeguarding tools are enabled, the app offers students who feel vulnerable instant access to a range of validated online support resources and the ability to submit their concerns to a nominated member of staff.
Teacher Tools:
• Choice of flexible connection methods – connect to a pre-defined group of student devices or on the fly using a Class Code.
• Teachers can easily monitor students’ internet use via crystal-clear thumbnails. You can even zoom in using Watch/View Mode to take a closer look at activity on a single student device, grabbing a real-time screenshot of the student's screen at the same time, if required.
• Broadcast the teacher’s screen (an open browser page, Window or the desktop) and audio to connected student devices to help show/talk them through explanations and lesson activities.
• Lock students’ screens in a single click to gain attention.
• Present students with the lesson objectives and their expected learning outcomes.
• Want to change the default student/device names at the start of a lesson? No problem! The teacher can ask students to register for the lesson with their preferred name.
• Chat, send a message, and support your students via help requests – without their peers knowing.
• Get a feel for students’ understanding of the topic you have just taught them by sending out a quick survey for them to respond to.
• See details of the websites that students are currently viewing to check they are focused on the task at hand.
• Restrict internet use by employing ‘approved’ and ‘restricted’ website lists during the lesson.
• Save yourself a heap of time by launching a website on the students’ devices.
• Recognise good work or behaviour by assigning Rewards to students during the lesson.
• During a Q&A style session, randomly select students to answer.
Technician Tools:
• Retrieve a real-time view of the hardware and software installed on each student device.
• Monitor internet usage.
• Send instant notifications to student iPads.
Safeguarding:
The Safeguarding tool helps you protect students from being exposed to inappropriate online content. It alerts Safeguarding staff when students type or search for any terms that match with those in the classroom.cloud keyword database – providing safeguarding and internet safety indicators for self-harm, bullying, sexual and criminal exploitation, and much more.
The component also offers students who feel vulnerable the option to 'report concerns' direct to the safeguarding team and gives instant access to a list of relevant online resources should they want to seek external help with a particular problem or concern.
Staff can also manage the pre-populated lists in the classroom.cloud web portal and add any additional keywords and online resources they feel are appropriate.
The innovation behind classroom.cloud comes from NetSupport, the trusted developer of effective classroom management tools for schools for more than 30 years.