What's new

NetSupport School 15.12.0005

Added the ability for the NetSupport School Name and Connectivity Server to operate as a secondary backup server.

Resolved an occasional WinHTTP crash found in the NetSupport School Student.
Resolved an issue with four-window split-screen mode in the Opera web browser.
Fixed an issue with the Opera web browser restrictions of AI and sidebar panes.
Fixed an issue with Opera sidebar apps not closing when they should.
The Copilot tab in Edge now closes when using Block All mode.
Updated ADMX templates to include Name and Connectivity Server changes for primary and secondary servers.
Resolved an issue where the licence information was duplicated in the Tutor Console when ending a class and starting a new class without closing the Tutor Console.
Resolved an issue where it was possible to bypass YouTube video restrictions by embedding videos in Word.
Various security updates.

Included a Microsoft-signed version of the NetSupport School Keyboard Filter driver.
Fixes an issue where the Out-of-Box Experience (OOBE) could fail and cause a restart on Acer devices.
Resolved an issue with internet restrictions relating to Mozilla Firefox 150.0.3.
Added Korean online documentation.
Updated software libraries.
Applied security updates.

The Chrome Student has been updated to comply with Manifest v3 standards. As a result of the architectural changes necessary for Manifest v3, the minimum supported version of ChromeOS is now 99.

Online documentation is now used in the Spanish, Japanese and Brazilian Portuguese versions of NetSupport School.
User identity can now be obtained from a Registry key instead of the currently logged-in Windows user.

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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 Console that an update is available.

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.

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.

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

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.

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

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.

Any late joiners can join a 'Show' that is already in progress - preventing lost teaching time in getting that student up to speed.

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.

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

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.

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

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

Data in the NetSupport Connectivity Server Console can now be exported to a .csv file to aid further analysis.
A filter bar allows you to search for Students in the NetSupport Connectivity Server Console.
The Gateway service will now automatically recover if there is an abnormal shutdown.
The NetSupport Connectivity Server Console window can now also be resized to make it easier to view.
The NetSupport Connectivity Server Console now displays the description of the Gateway key in use.