Insight. Cross-platform for both clients and control machines.
http://www.faronics.com/html/insight.asp
I don't remember exactly what I paid, but I think is was about $700/teacher
workstation (with an unlimited number of clients that can connect to the
teacher).
Christopher
Christopher Butler
Director of Information Services
St. John's Preparatory School
http://www.stjohnsprep.org
On Mon, Feb 1, 2010 at 5:51 PM, Steve Taffee <staffee@castilleja.org> wrote:
> I am looking for software that can be used by a teacher to observe all of
> the laptops in her classroom in a thumbnail view. ARD does this on the Mac,
> but in our case we need a teacher's system (normally a Mac), to be able to
> see the screen of any Mac, Windows, or Linux computer in her classroom.
>
> At this point, observe only is okay. But if the software could also lock
> screens, keyboards, and so on that would be a nice plus.
>
> Open source is preferred.
>
> There seems to be dozens of possibilities out there, as detailed in this
> site on Wikipedia:
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison_of_remote_desktop_software
>
> Cost of full-blown systems seem to be very high for something that may not
> be needed as teachers become comfortable with students using laptops in
> their classrooms, and students learn better habbitudes about appropriate
> use. Nevertheless, I want to be able to present teachers who want such a
> system with the option.
>
> VNC is a good standard, but it seems like implementations of it vary so
> widely by platform.
>
> Thoughts?
>
> s
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