Connect to Students via Room mode

NetSupport School provides a quick and easy method to connect to the machines in a given room. An intuitive startup wizard enables you to assign PCs to a particular room and quickly deploy the Student software to those machines. At the start of a lesson, the teacher simply indicates which of the pre-defined rooms they want to connect to. 'Roaming' Students also have the option of connecting to a designated room.

The Room settings can also be configured at the Student in the NetSupport School Student Configurator.  

Connecting using the Class wizard

  1. In the Class wizard, select New.

  2. Click Room Mode.

  3. Enter the name of the new room.

  4. To make this class the default connection method, select Make this the active connection method.

  5. Click OK.

  6. The new class appears in the Class wizard.

    Note: You can connect to multiple rooms by highlighting the required rooms (click Ctrl and select the required rooms) and clicking Select.

  7. The Tutor will browse for and connect to all Students found and display their icons in the Tutor Console.

Configuring rooms using the Tutor Configurator

  1. Click Options in the Tutor Console and select Network Settings from the drop-down menu.

  2. Select Student Selection.

  3. Click the Connect to Students in Room(s) option and enter the required room.

  4. To choose from a list of rooms in the Class wizard, click Select from list of rooms. Enter the required room names, separating each value with a comma.

  5. To allow students to join your room, click Acknowledge Roaming Students.

  6. Click Prompt at startup if you want the Tutor to be able to specify an ad-hoc room to connect to in the Class wizard.

  7. Click OK.

  8. Click Yes to re-initialise the Tutor Configurator.

  9. The Class wizard appears, showing the room(s) you have set. Select the required room, click Select and click OK.

    Note: You can connect to multiple rooms by highlighting the required rooms (click Ctrl and select the required rooms) and clicking Select.

  10. The Tutor will connect to all Students found and display their icons in the Tutor Console.

Note: A warning icon will be displayed next to Students that have been unable to connect. Mouse over this icon to see the reason for the failed connection.

Students manually connecting to a room

Roaming Students can be configured to either manually enter the room or choose from a list of available rooms from the Student icon in the system tray. If the Student icon is hidden in the system tray, the Student can still manually enter the room by running the setroom.exe. This file is located in the Program folder on the Student machine.

Note: For a roaming Student to be able to connect to a room, you must ensure that the Acknowledge Roaming Students option is selected in the Tutor Configurator. In the Student Configurator, one of the following mobile options must be selected: This is a mobile computer and may be in one of the following rooms or This is a mobile computer and its room will be entered manually. For Students to be able to browse all available rooms, select Display all available rooms.

  1. Select the NetSupport School Student icon in the system tray and choose {Commands}{Enter/Leave Room} from the Student drop-down menu.

    Or

    Right-click the Student icon and choose Enter/Leave Room.

  2. The Enter/Leave Room dialog will appear and, depending on the option set in the Student Configurator, the Student can enter the required room name, choose a room from a drop-down list, or see all available rooms.

  3. Click OK or Enter Room.

  4. The Student will connect to the selected room and appear in the Tutor Console.

Note: For information on how to use Room mode when connecting to Students in a BYOD environment, please visit our Knowledge Base and refer to product article Using NetSupport School in a BYOD environment.

See also:

Finding and connecting to Students

Connect to Students using Browse mode

Connect to Students using PC mode

Connect to Students using User mode

NetSupport School Deploy - Room mode