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Faronics Insight. What Insight Can Do. Allows Instructor to see each student’s computer screen Lock all computers at once Block or Allow Internet access selectively Block or Allow Application access selectively Chat with individuals or all students Take class polling/votes
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What Insight Can Do • Allows Instructor to see each student’s computer screen • Lock all computers at once • Block or Allow Internet access selectively • Block or Allow Application access selectively • Chat with individuals or all students • Take class polling/votes • Create, give, and score tests and quizzes • Randomly choose students for answering questions • Show a student’s screen to the rest of class • Take control of a student’s screen
What Insight Can’t Do • We do not have it keeping track of visited websites • Both sides of HSS can’t be controlled by one instructor machine
Available in: • OIT Teaching Labs: • Humanities 201 and 202 • J.D. Tickle 403 • Presidential Court 113A • Departmental Labs • English Classroom, HSS 204 • CASNR, Brehm Animal Science 234
Launching Insight Double Click the Insight Icon Enter the password for the lab.
Launching Insight Continued • Right Click the “Owl” icon on the bottom right • Select “Insight Console…”
Lock all computers at once Uses: beginning of class timed tests lectures
Chatting Select a student to chat Open the chat dialog
Class voting Create a poll question See results immediately
Allow only certain applications(this limits all others, including web browsing) • Click the (down arrow) next to “Limit Apps” • Select “Configure Application Limiting…” • Launch the program you want to ALLOW Example: launch Microsoft Word for an essay test
Allow only certain applications(this limits all other apps, including web browsing) • Select “Allow only the following applications” • Click “Add” • Choose the program you want to allow from the list • Click “Add” • Click “Apply” • Click “Ok”
Allow only certain applications(this limits all others, including web browsing) • Click the (down arrow) next to “Limit Apps” • Select “Allow List”
Can Create a test using Test Builder • Note: Works best with multiple choice or True/False • Must be using the Insight Instructor station to create the test
Recording your test results Export to Excel See Results Note: Multiple choice and True/False seem to work best. Options for essay and short answer are available.
Helpful Links: Video Tutorial: http://www.faronics.com/document-library/document/faronics-insight-tutorial/ Note: we have disabled tracking of visited websites Insight User Guide: http://www.faronics.com/document-library/document/faronics-insight-user-guide/
Helpful Links Continued: Faronics address: http://www.faronics.com/ Insight address: http://www.faronics.com/enterprise/insight/
WARNING! If you block or limit web access or application access, this might remain even after you log off and restart the instructor computer. Please remember to always undo any blocks or limits before you leave!