Silencing Students Computers

The Silence Computer window allows blocking and unblocking the computer of a student in class. When the computer is blocked, the student is not able to use his mouse, keyboard and video.

Fields and Commands

Connected Students

Student Name

This field displays the connected student's name.

This field is read-only and cannot be modified.

Login

This field displays the connected student's login.

This field is read-only and cannot be modified.

Status

This field displays the students status, referent to the use of the silence computer function:

Computer is in Silence: when the student's computer is blocked, the Status field will display an image, as illustrated above, that indicates through a right arrow, that the silence function is being executed.

Computer is not in Silence: when the student's computer is not blocked, the Status field will display an image, as illustrated above, that indicates through a square, that the silence function is stopped.

Select All

This field selects all connected students in the list. If you check this field again, all students selection will be removed.

Start Silence Student

This button starts blocking the selected students computers. When the computer is silenced, its mouse, keyboard and video are blocked. This function is only enabled after at least one student is selected in the list.

You can send a text message to be displayed in the student's monitor that will have his computer blocked. To do this, enter a message in the Message to Display field before starting the silence computer function. If a message is not displayed, the student's computer screen will be blanked.

While the student's computer is blocked, he will not be able to exit the class.

Stop Silence Student

This button stops the blocking of the selected students computers. This function is only enabled after the Start Silence Student command is used. The student will then be able to use his mouse, keyboard and video, and if he wants, he can exit the class.

Message to Display

Enter a message to be displayed in the student's computer screen when the Start Silence Student function is used.

Help

This button displays the Help window where you can navigate through the v-Class Teacher help topics.

Close

This button closes the Silence Computer window and returns to the Main window.