Lewis & Clark CC Empowered by Insight Software

Georgia Voils shares her experiences with a popular classroom management solution

“Our online education computer lab has more than 60 workstations, which makes it extremely difficult for an instructor to accommodate several types of activity at once,” says Georgia Voils, Internet Course Technician for Lewis and Clark Community College. “Now that we have Insight, I can answer the phone at my desk, check students into an examination and monitor the students in the lab—all from one location and at the same time. It’s been great!”

With an annual enrollment of more than 12,000 students, Illinois’ Lewis and Clark Community College recently started using Insight to transform their standard computer labs into collaborative learning environments. For instructors such as Georgia Voils, Insight, a classroom management software product developed by Faronics Corporation, has empowered instructors with the ability to educate, collaborate, assist and monitor students using computers in the classroom.

“Before, faculty who sent their online students in for proctored paper-and-pencil exams worried about student access to computer resources during testing. Using Insight, instructors have the ability to disable classroom Internet access down to the workstation level, so it’s no longer an issue,” Voils says. “I’ve found that once I was introduced to Insight, it didn’t take long to learn how to use it in a variety of ways. During the last round of HESI nursing entrance exams, I was sitting at the teacher’s station in an 80-computer theater classroom trying to determine from the students’ body language who was finished with each section of the test, and who was not. It occurred to me that Insight might help me, so I opened the thumbnail views of the student screens and found that I could see individual screens in enough detail to tell whether students were still answering questions, or had completed a section of the test and were sitting at the main screen, waiting to move on. I was able to save a total of 40 minutes out of a four-hour testing session for the entire group, because I could safely announce that it looked like everyone was finished with, for example, the vocabulary test and could move on to the math section. The students were all interested to learn how I could possibly know that for sure.”

Lewis and Clark Community College has also found ways to use Insight to enhance the professional development of the instructors. “Our campus users of WebCT receive monthly instruction using a classroom projector system. A couple of months ago, the projector failed during a WebCT session. I spent some time trying to get the projector running when it struck me that everyone was sitting at a computer in a lab dedicated to online education. So we fired up Insight at the instructor’s station and sent the screen to all the participants’ workstations, while excluding a student worker’s computer so that she could continue with her work.”

Educators can download a free 30-day evaluation version of Insight from www.faronics.com.

Comments

[Salon Management Software]

Good thing there's Insight, workload is much lighter than it seems.

[Moncler outlet]

You've made a good point.This is a really good read for me.

[Christian Louboutin Outlet]

These land site are need on the web, someone with a little creativity. Useful work to bring any new Internet!give thanks you let us see this content!

[Christian Louboutin Outlet]

Cheers for all your efforts that you have cast in this. very interesting information. i like with express my support of your ideas in your article, and counting forward to your side by side article.