Your platform for knowledge, teamwork and presentation

CommTeaching

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Your platform for knowledge, teamwork and presentation.

Integrate the computer into your lessons...
CommTeaching makes computer-based training a success and protects your computers from unwanted access and manipulations. Besides enormous teamwork-supporting functions, the software offers you a wide range of e-learning functionality and features for computer-aided presentation. All functions are integrated properly into a so-called room view which allows you to control all the computers you want to administer centrally from your master desk. All functions can be accessed with your mouse. Therefore working withCommTeaching is easy and doesn’t require extra knowledge.

One platform for everything!
CommTeaching offers you an e-learning platform that allows you to impart knowledge to your students directly and easily. Create your content with the software or import it from MicrosoftWord or from the internet. Afterwards, your students can access the content and work on it at their individual speed. But: What happens when problems occur during the learning process? For this case, CommTeaching has an integrated problem center. Here, students can insert items with a short description of their problem or concern. Hereafter, other students and the teacher or trainer can view the items, reply and assist solving the student’s problem. Since the items are archived, it’s possible to take advantage of the problem center on the next occurrence of a similar problem by browsing through the center database. Finally, when the learning session is over, you have the chance to review the students’ learning behavior and - far more important - evaluate your success as a teacher!

Teamwork made easy
Working in groups becomes increasingly important. That’s why CommTeaching contains important team-supporting functionalities. Share folders within teams in order to exchange files, folders and important information. Let the learners communicate via chat. Furthermore, it is possible to centrally start an application to enable the students to work with the same program simultaneously. CommTeaching provides you with a high-secure internet sharing component. A few mouse clicks let you specify whether the students should access the whole internet, only a subset of internet sites or whether web access should be blocked completely. Additionally, you can filter ads and X-rated pages.

Effective cinema
Present your learning material with the computer instead of using overhead projectors and blackboards. From now on, all users and learners sit in the first row. You have their full attention. Not only computer-related stuff, also classical material like photos, scanned material, PowerPoint- presentations - briefly everything a computer monitor can display - can be projected onto the students’ desktops. Simultaneously to your presentation, the students can - if you allow them to - reflect your demonstration and make notes or work beside the presentation window. Not only you, but also the students, are able to make presentations from their individual desk.
CommTeaching’s presentation and support component can equally be used to directly assist a student having problems with the handling of her or his computer.You have the opportunity to virtually accompany the students’ work, to directly step in and to take control of the workstations as soon as problems occur.

Most important: Security...
For an undisturbed course of your lessons and to contribute to a pleasant working atmosphere, it is necessary to protect the systems from unwanted access and undesirable changes. Define which restrictions to apply for each student individually or group-wise. Define which programs are to be started; which entries should be visible in the students’ start menus and which internet areas the students have access to. Besides, you can lock floppy and CD/DVD drives and deny access to special folders and shares.

Computer and student management
Due to the integrated group management, you can easily assign individual rights to each student. Create groups and assign members to them. Thus, you do not have to remember on which desk the respective students work but only their name! It doesn’t matter, on which computer your students work, the computer at which they have logged on, their profile is applied.

Features

E-learning platform

• E-learning editor
  Create pages and subordinate books, units and pages. Insert texts, pictures, interactive video material, flash movies, quizzes, crossword puzzles or mathematical tasks. Import your existing material from the internet and standard office applications such as Word or Excel. No need of HTML knowledge, easy to use. Smoothly exchange your e-learning material with other teachers and trainers via import/export.
• E-Learning stats
  See, which content was the most effective, understandable and popular one. View feedback result. Watch, how often certain units have been repeated. Information is presented graphically and can be sent directly to your printer. The graphical evaluation offers direct comparisons between single students and their group.
• Problem center
  Students insert their problem descriptions into the center functioning like an Internet forum. You and your students now have the opportunity to view the items and directly reply to them. Because of the archive database the software builds up automatically, solutions to future problems can prevented easily since at the occurrence of a similar problem, the students can browse the existing entries to find a solution to their problem.
• E-learning disc
  Hand out a copy of the e-learning disc to each student to facilitate home preparation of e-learning content and homework.Additionally, learners can study your material at home and develop further ideas.

Teamwork support

• Folder sharing
  Allow students and teams to access several folders such as the team folder or the class folder. Subsequently, the folders are connected to a virtual drive easily accessible throughout all applications and the explorer. This allows your students to work on files together and to exchange data.
• Internet sharing
  An ordinary computer is sufficiently and you are able to securely share the internet among your students. Define which pages are to be accessed and which not. Block pages with word and file extension filters.
• Chat
  Chat with your students and let your students communicate via chat. The chat rooms provide optional password protection and offer a chat log in order to enable you viewing sessions after the event. It’s possible to chat in different rooms simultaneously.
• Application launcher
  Start any application listed in the start menu of any computer centrally. Perfect for teamwork: Now, all team members can work with the same application.
• Exam writer
  Let your students write exams safely! Copying between the computers or via floppy is not possible and not required: Your students simply have to put their files on a list located in CommTeaching and after they submitted their results, the files are transferred directly to your computer. Set up a timer for automated result delivery.

Presentation, accompaniment, support

• Presentation
  Show PowerPoint- presentations or any other documents and programs from your desk. All students can see synchronously, what you present.
• Accompaniment
  Monitor your students’ activity and give them hints to increase productivity.
• Support
  Support your students directly by remote controlling their desks when problems occur. Lock the students’ keyboards and mice in order to prevent interruption. The perfect feature for problem solving and remote maintenance.
• Student presentation
  Allow your students to present results, homework and important information to the audience.

System protection

• Rights management
  You can easily adjust the following rights for each student individually or for custom groups or for all members of the course:
  - Program rights: Deny or allow access to programs. Protect the computers from games and viruses.
  - System rights: Specify particular options, whether for example the computer can be shut down or whether the students should be allowed to change settings and much more. This feature enables you to lock down computers so that unwanted manipulation by the user is impossible.
  - Internet access rights: Determine which pages can be accessed. Block pages with a word filter. Deny access to downloads or advertisements.
  - Start menu adjustment: Specify the list of accessible programs in the students’ start menus without permanently removing the applications to be hidden.
  - Folfer access rights: Decide which folders should be accessible and which shouldn’t.
  - Physical hardware: Lock floppy and DVD/CD drives. DVD and CD drives cannot even be opened.
• Computer lock
  Lock computers so that the users cannot interact with their workstation. Despite the lock, you are still able to control the computers remotely.
• Computer switch-off via click
  Shut down the computers, reboot or hibernate them centrally.

Management

• Graphical room management
  CommTeaching’s main interface is the so-called room view. Register the computers here and bring them into a realistic order. That way, you will always quickly identify the computers. Computers are displayed as small monitors with necessary information on top of their screen.
• Command bar
  This component allows you to easily access all features the software provides you. After you’ve dragged a command icon onto a computer, the associated action is performed instantly.
• Group management
  Manage groups and their members. Your students get their individual profiles and are able to log on at the computer they want! You will always be able to access the students’ computers directly through the group management function.

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