Knowledgebase
A test created and saved in a location that the Students don't have
access to will briefly display the test but as soon as Students try to
enter any data or change the test the test will close.
This is a Windows/Network rights issue. Copy or move th...
The following features are not avalable in Insight when the student application is configured on a Thin Client system or workstations running as nComputing hosts:
Send "Ctrl-Alt-Del"
View Keystroke history
Print limiting (the one you have logged as an is...
If a student single clicks on the system tray icon, a pop up will
appear which reads, "Click here if you have a question for the
Teacher". If the student clicks on that message a chat dialog will
appear that the student may enter their question into, t...
Yes. This feature is normally disabled to prevent an accidental
change to the channel number. Even though the option is grayed out, it
still displays the Teacher Channel configured for the workstation. You
can change or add more channels by using a uti...
Yes you can, in the thumbnail view, this option shows an icon in the
upper right hand corner that represents the Web site the student
visited last.
Yes, the console can display a selected student’s screen on the teacher’s machine in a full screen mode. The teacher cannot control the machine, only observe and cannot view multiple student’s screens when the one screen is enlarged.
The only way to uninstall Insight is by re-running the install
package as an administrator. Provided that the students do not have
access to the installer package and/or do not have administrative
rights on the local machine they will not be able to un...
Yes, the install can be scripted to run silently from a login script.
The command-line parameters are listed in the installation
documentation.
The Insight student software can also be installed with the included
_.MSI_ file. This will not work f...
Faronics Insight versions 7.5 and higher support dual monitor
configurations on both the Teacher and Student workstations.
Both Student workstations and Teacher Console are compatible with Mac
OS X.
The Teacher Console requires an Intel-based Mac.
Yes. If your switches support Multicast or Subnet Directed Broadcasts,
then Insight can be configured to take advantage of these protocols.
Multicast can be configured through the configure menu item.
As Insight is designed it will not function effecitvely across the internet without some form of VPN or site to site link that connects the workstations together into a single network.
While Insight can communicate to networks outside of the teacher conso...
Faronics products are designed to be deployed using their own native
tools. We do provide a set of options that can push an install to
workstations using 3rd party tools. Any tool that can run commands
remotely on a workstation is capable of deploying ...
Insight has 16000 possible channels from which to choose, which means
that an organization can have as many as 16000 different classrooms
using Insight at any given time on the same network.
\N\NOVERVIEW\N\N While Insight defaults to IP-Broadcast
(255.255.255.255) when sending data from a "Teacher" machine to
multiple "Student" machines, it can easily be reconfigured to use
IP-Multicast. The primary benefit of IP-Multicast is twofold: the dat...
Overview
This document will detail the process required to install Insight in a Terminal Services or thin client environment.
Terminal Services Explanation
A terminal services / thin client enviroment is one where a series of lower powered mac...
Yes. Choosing channel 0 as the teacher channel allows the
administrator or teacher to monitor workstations assigned to all
Insight channels.
PowerPoint 2010 uses DirectDraw to display full screen slide shows, Insight currently cannot capture and display applications using DirectDraw. This issue can be resolved either by showing the slide show in a window or by disalbing Hardware Accelleration...
Windows Multipoint Server does not provide a unique identifier for
each station that it communicates with, as such the classroom layout
feature of Faronics Insight does not work with Windows Multipoint
Server.
Faronics Insight makes use of a number of static and dynamic ports;
* Static Ports - 796, 1053
* Dynamic Ports - 41952 to 65535
Both the static ports and dynamic ports will need to be open to
accept traffic from workstations running the Teacher...
It is very rare that a student uses an authorized console, unless
you've given them access to the console program. However if you
suspect that someone has the Teacher Console, there is a utility
located in the Utilities folder on the CD called security...
One of Insight's strengths is the efficient screen capture and
transfer methods. If the whole teacher's screen is changing Insight
only uses around 60K/sec. This is less than 1% of a 100 MB network.
Because we use a broadcast packet, the bandwidth c...
In high load situations, Insight uses about 4% of the processor and
near 6 MB of memory on the client.
250 computers. If you have more than 250 computers, you can assign the
rest of the computers to a different channel using another console
which will listen on that same new channel.
Faronics supports the use of Insight on systems running nComputing
hardware with the following versions of the vSpace client software on
an officially supported operating system:
L-SERIES HARDWARE
X-SERIES HARDWARE
U-SERIES M-SERIES
V...
In some editions of the Insight users guide the instructions for
setting up the AD Secure mode incorrectly state two different possible
names for the Insight Teachers domain user group. The correct name for
the domain user group is:
"Insight Teacher...
* Verify that there are no personal firewalls blocking the Insight
port. Insight configures the Microsoft Firewall that ships with
Windows XP SP2, but will not configure 3rd party firewalls.
* Check to see if you have two or more Network Interface Card...
No, the evaluation version will allow you to test Insight with one
channel. Once you purchase the software, you can change or add more
channels by using a free utility called _EnableChannelSelect.exe_ that
is available in the Utilities folder included ...
Yes. The default option is IP-Broadcast which uses broadcast packets
when the teacher needs to contact all student machines. Broadcast
packets do not cross subnets or VLANs. If the teacher needs to cross a
subnet or VLAN, using IP-Multicast or IP-Direc...