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Lenovo LanSchool

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What is Lenovo LanSchool?

Lenovo offers LanSchool, a classroom management platform supporting collaboration, monitoring student activity, chat, teacher broadcasting / screen-sharing, and other features.

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Keep Students on Track with Live Thumbnails of their Screens.

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Dennis WoodwardView profile
Director of Technology in Information Technology at Montverde Academy (201-500 employees employees)

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

LanSchool is a must in any computer lab situation. The teacher is able to view and/or remote control student workstations to support or redirect as needed.

Pros

  • Ability to view a thumbnail in real time of each workstation's screen,
  • Ability to connect and take control of workstation.
  • Ability to transfer files to workstations without need to "download" from outside sites.

Cons

  • The thumbnails are small so working on a larger screen is a must.
  • It would be helpful to be able to integrate telephony to be able to speak directly to the user.
  • It would be useful to be able to deploy software from teacher machines to workstations.

Return on Investment

  • Speed in accessing workstations.
  • Security of knowing all students are where they are supposed to be.
  • Price is great.

Alternatives Considered

VNC Connect

LanSchool in All Schools

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Christopher PowerView profile
Virtual Enterprise Coordinator/Educator at NYC Department of Education / Francis Lewis High School (201-500 employees employees)

Pros

  • Lenovo LanSchool has a very easy to use and easy to learn interface. With software, the hardest thing to do is to teach new teachers or veteran teachers how to use technology in their classrooms. Being able to easily teach teachers to use this software is one of the best aspects of the [Lenovo LanSchool].
  • Something that LanSchool does well is to monitor student actions. On the screens, you can see all the linked computers of all students. This feature lets you see every student on one screen. The alternative is walking around the classroom or scrolling through pages of student screens, with LanSchool you can guarantee that you are seeing all screens at once.
  • Overall classroom management is a key feature on the platform. You can share files, freeze student screens, blank out student screens and share another screen to the entire class. There are far more options in terms of engaging the students than a conventional method of asking students to pay attention. Installing LanSchool is a huge asset for teachers to engage and update their lessons.
  • A cool element I seldom use is the speaking software, being able to speak through their computer screens is great to give direction or get attention quickly.

Cons

  • Room for improvement would be that the software sometimes has glitches. There are times that when you unfreeze a student machine it does not unfreeze, the student is required to restart their machine.
  • If the wifi is poor, it is difficult to track the students because there is a lag in what it shows on your screen. I wonder if using Bluetooth could speed up that process from computer to teacher computer stations.
  • Things that I would love to see that I have not seen are the ability to send emails to students. We can send messages directly to the computers, but being able to email directly from the software would avoid the need to leave the platform and go to other websites such as a Gmail. This would streamline communication.

Return on Investment

  • A positive impact on the school is how it is changing school culture. This trains students to be more active and engaged. As a school, it forces all students to be more focused and more aware that teachers can see their actions and use them to track their progress.
  • A strong ROI is that it also provides key feedback to use in parent-teacher meetings. You can track what students are doing and identify how often they are on or off task in a specific lesson. Teachers can screenshot students that are off task and share it with parents to help support future student engagement. As a school, it supports the need for teachers to be on top of student activity.
  • There is no financial ROI from the software, as education is a service industry, but the students definitely receive a better education as a result. When students receive a better education, we can increase students' scores, graduation rates, and college scholarships.

Alternatives Considered

Apple Remote Desktop

Other Software Used

PowerSchool Special Education, Blackboard Collaborate, Blackboard Learn, CampusNexus Student

School works better with LanSchool

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Dianna WolfView profile
Computer Application and Computer Science Teaher at Bowling Green Independent Schools (201-500 employees employees)

Pros

  • Monitoring computers to see what users need assistance with or seeing what they are doing to determine what you need to do to support the users.
  • Allowing control of the computer in order to show the user how to do a task they were having difficulties with.
  • Sharing the screen of another user to demonstrate what to do or showcasing their work.
  • Allows for restarting multiple computers at once.
  • Allows communication in a messaging format within the program

Cons

  • Messaging could be improved for notification when messages are sent.
  • When multiple users use the same computer, sometimes LanSchool needs to be restarted to show changes in usernames.
  • You can save layouts, but I would like more options for how to arrange the layout you see the computers on your screen.

Return on Investment

  • Students were more focused knowing I could see all computers at once.
  • My time was used more efficiently with having access to helping many people without having to go from computer to computer.
  • Students took pride in what they did knowing it could be shared during class to others.

Other Software Used

Google Classroom, Edmodo, Google Drive

Great for classroom technology integration and classroom management!

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Karee SmithView profile
STEM Instructor, Higher Education Coordinator, Curriculum Development, & Documentation Lead at STARBASE Minnesota (1-10 employees employees)

Pros

  • Ease of use
  • Multiple functions
  • classroom management

Cons

  • Sometimes when "blanking" screens, it interrupts or freezes our student's computers, making them have to start over.
  • I wish that we could "delete" things from the drop-down "run" menu. Instead, they have to just wait until they eventually get bumped off after not using for a while. I also wish we could have this be the same on all of our classroom computers.
  • Would be great if it was easier to retrieve files from student computers. Great function, but it is really tedious and complicated to do so.

Return on Investment

  • Helps us serve thousands of students each year
  • Has helped us improve classroom management
  • Saves us time with technology set up (e.g. being able to do all from Lanschool, not having to set up each individual computer every day)

LanSchool. A must-have for a computer lab!

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Verified User
Director in Information Technology (1001-5000 employees employees)

Pros

  • Screen broadcasting.
  • Whitelisting/blacklisting applications.
  • Use it to connect to multiple computers, log in, and install software instead of going around one by one.
  • Screen locking.

Cons

  • Updating of application connecting directly (if licensed) instead of forcing me to go to website, sign in to download. This is not teacher oriented.

Return on Investment

  • It is cheaper than online proctoring when we are doing the face to face exams with less pushback from the students.