ELANCO SD LanSchool User Guide

LanSchool Teacher Guide

Table of Contents:
Introduction: ................................................................................................................................................. 3 Installation: ................................................................................................................................................... 3 Setup: ............................................................................................................................................................ 3 Classroom Lists:............................................................................................................................................. 5 Exporting your students:........................................................................................................................... 5 Importing Your Students ........................................................................................................................... 9 Using Class Lists: ......................................................................................................................................... 11 Load a Class: ............................................................................................................................................ 11 Dismiss a Class: ....................................................................................................................................... 12 Using LanSchool: ......................................................................................................................................... 13 The Toolbar: ............................................................................................................................................ 13

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Introduction:
This user guide goes over how to install and setup LanSchool. It will also show you how to create and manage class lists and the basic features of LanSchool.

Installation:
To install LanSchool complete the following steps

1. After you logon to your computer click on the Microsoft button at the lower left hand side of your desktop. 2. In the Search Box type Software Center. 3. Select the Software Center application.

4. After the Software Center opens (this could take up to 1 min) select LanSchool. 5. Click the Install button at the lower right hand side of the screen.

Setup:
In order to use LanSchool you will need to change some settings. Follow the steps below to setup LanSchool

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1. In the notification area (Lower right hand side of screen) click on the small up arrow to see all Icons.

2. Click on the LanScool Icon.

3. In the LanSchool application click on Administer

4. In the Administer drop down select Preferences

5. In the Preferences pane click on the Network tab if it is not already selected 6. Change the Channel Number to your copier/long distance pin. 7. Click OK

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Classroom Lists:
Creating Classroom Lists will allow you to easily manage each of your classes. Creating the Classroom Lists is broken up into two main steps, Exporting and Importing.

Exporting your students:

To export your students from the intranet complete the following steps for each of your classes. 1. Open Internet Explorer and go to intranet.elanco.org

2. Click Student Lists

3. Select your school and then click Show Classes

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4. Select your 1st class

5. Select USERNAME

6. Click the Add button

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7. Click the Export button

You will get a popup at the bottom of the screen 8. Click the small down arrow next to Save and select Save As

9. In the File Name field type in the name of the class. IE. English PD1 10. Click Save 11. Repeat Steps 3-10 for all of your classes

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12. Brows to the location that you saved the class files. (by default they are saved in the downloads folder) 13. Open the first class file

14. Select and delete the first line of the file. USERNAME

15. Save and close the file

16. Repeat steps 12-15 for all of the files you created.

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Importing Your Students
Now that you have exported your students from the intranet you now need to import them into LanSchool. Please follow the steps below.

1. Open LanSchool

2. Click Class List on the toolbar

3. Click Manage Class List

4. Click Import Students

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5. A window will open, browse to the location of your exported student files. (By default this should be the Downloads folder

6. Select the one of your classes

All of the students in your class should now be in the left hand column. 7. Click Save

8. Browse to the folder you would like to save the files to. It is recommended that you create a folder named LanSchool in your documents folder for these files. 9. Name the file. IE. English PD 1 10. Click Save

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11. Click Close to exit the Manage Class Lists screen

12. Repeat steps 2-11 for each of your classes.

Using Class Lists:

Class Lists are used to easily bring students into your class. The steps below will show you how to Load and Dismiss a class. You will need to Load your current class at the beginning of the period and then Dismiss it at the end.

You must Dismiss your class at the end of each period

If you do not, it can cause conflicts if other teachers try to bring them into their class.

Load a Class:

1. Click Class List on the toolbar 2. Click Load Class List If you have previously loaded this class it will be displayed at the bottom of this window. Simply click the class and it will load.

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3. A window will open, browse to the location you saved your classes at in the Importing your classes section of this guide. 4. Select a class 5. Click Open

6. Your Class will load and look similar to this

Dismiss a Class:

1. Click Class List on the toolbar 2. Click Dismiss Current Class

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Using LanSchool:
This section will go over the toolbar and general operation of LanSchool

The Toolbar:

This is the LanSchool toolbar. Below is a brief overview of what each button does.

Shows your screen on all selected student computers.

Shows the selected students screen on your screen and all selected student computers.

Sends a question to all selected student computers, then tallies the results.

You can use this button to create and send out tests that will display on all selected student computers. This will run a command on all selected student computers. Warning This can cause issue depending on the command sent to the computers

This will take control of all selected students computers.

This toggles the view between thumbnail and list.

This will take a picture of the selected students screen.

This sends a message to all of the selected students.

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This will blank all of the selected student computer screens, and display a message from you. This disables the internet on all selected student computers.

This disables all applications on all selected student computers.

This mutes the speakers on all selected student computers

This will close all programs on all selected student computers. Warning Using this can cause loss of student work; it will not ask to save any work.

This allows you to manage, load, and dismiss classes and class lists.

This will push files out to a specific folder on each selected student computer.

This will shutdown all selected student computers. Warning Using this can cause loss of student work; it will not ask to save any work This will open the internet on all selected student computers and browse to the same website that you are on. This will randomly choose a student computer

This will refresh the view of the computers

This will save the current computers to a new class list.

This is a shortcut to the preferences window

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