What's new

NetSupport School 15.10.0003 delivers the following new and improved features to complement the extensive range of existing functionality:

Help requests

  • Students’ help requests to the Tutor can now be sorted in the time order they were raised, helping you to prioritise which student to help first.

Class timer

  • Set a class timer for your lesson and schedule specific actions at the end of the lesson. For example, at the end of the lesson, you can send a message to the students reminding them to save work. Or schedule the students' mice and keyboards to lock to stop them from using the devices when the lesson has finished.

Chat

  • When you view a student’s screen and select the Chat function, NetSupport School now brings an existing Chat with that student into the Tutor’s foreground, ensuring it’s easily available.

Show

  • You can now ‘Show’ your screen to a single student, making it easier to provide one-to-one support.

Message

  • You can now send a message to a student directly from the View window ribbon.

NetSupport School 15.10 delivers the following new and improved features to complement the extensive range of existing functionality:

Test Designer

  • Brand new user interface. Replacing the toolbar and menus with an intuitive ribbon makes completing tasks quicker without getting buried in extra unnecessary steps.

  • New-style wizard for creating questions.

  • A spell checker with configurable regions is now included, helping to ensure there are no mistakes in questions.

  • When creating questions, you can now create another question of the same type, keeping some of the same settings.

  • If a topic or subject is selected in the tree view and you create a question, this is automatically applied to the new question.

  • Once a question is created, it's automatically selected in the Questions pane tree view.

NetSupport School 15.00 delivers the following new and improved features to complement the extensive range of existing functionality:

Platform support

  • Platform support has been extended to Windows 11 and Windows Server 2022.

Brand-new user interface

  • The new user interface makes it even easier to find and use all of NetSupport School's classroom management features. Replacing the toolbar and menus with an intuitive ribbon makes completing tasks quicker without getting buried in extra unnecessary steps.

  • A search facility has been added to the Tutor and Student Configurators, allowing you to easily locate the settings you are looking for.

  • Turn off additional confirmations when performing certain tasks, such as powering off/restarting or logging out of devices.

  • The 'right-click' menu has been refreshed, making accessing features even quicker. Plus, a Delete option has been added, so you can now remove Student icons from a class.

  • If a Student is running multiple monitors, icons are now displayed on the Student thumbnail, allowing you to switch between each monitor or view the whole desktop.

  • When a new update is available for NetSupport School, you are notified in the Tutor Console and Tech ConsoleClosed A unique console specifically for technicians, providing a single view of all machines across the school. that an update is available.  

Tech Console

  • A search facility is now available, allowing you to quickly locate Students by user name, machine name, IP address, running application or website.

  • Suspend the NetSupport School Student (Client32 service) from running at a machine.

  • The Student version number is now displayed when viewing in details view.

Student stickers

  • NetSupport School allows you to send animated stickers to Students recognising Students' good behaviour. During a lesson, you can send a sticker to individual Students, which is reflected on the Student Toolbar.

Chat

  • The history for all Student chat sessions can now be stored in a .txt file.

Class wizard

  • You can now easily connect to multiple rooms in the Class wizard.

Viewing Students

  • Applications can now be quickly launched at Students while you are viewing them.

Test Designer

  • A new question type, 'highlight text', has been added, where Students have to highlight the correct section of text to answer the question.

  • Two fake (incorrect) answers can be added to the 'drag and drop' question type, so Students have to identify the correct answer before dragging it into the statement.

  • If a Student connection is lost while a test is running, the partial results are recorded and available in the class summary and individual Student reports.

  • PNG images can now be added into a test.

Sending work

  • You can now send folders/subfolders to Students when using the Send/Collect Work feature.

Blank screen while viewing

  • In addition to already being able to blank all Students' screens, you can now blank a Student's screen while viewing them - available on Windows 10 v 2004 and above.

Show

Student Toolbar

  • You can now hide an approved website from the list that appears in the Student Toolbar.

  • Messages sent to Students can now contain clickable URLs.

Power management

  • You can now quickly power off Student machines that are not logged on.

Interactive whiteboard

  • The whiteboard can now be resized to fit the student's screen, making it easier for the teacher and student to view and collaborate.

File Transfer

  • The Downloads folder now appears in the Tree view, allowing you to directly transfer files quickly and easily.

  • Folders that need to be accessed regularly can be added to a 'Favourites' folder in the Tree view.

  • NetSupport School provides a list of files that the Tutor has recently worked with (the last 20 files are displayed) and these can be sent to a Student in one click.

  • Files on the Student machine can now be seamlessly opened and edited at the Tutor.

PowerShell

  • The PowerShell window now displays any errors and differences between multiple Student sessions.

Group Policy

  • Even more Tutor Console settings are now available to configure via Group Policy.

NetSupport Connectivity Server (Gateway)