Mac Classroom Management Software

Keeping a digital classroom on track.

In any classroom, it can be hard to tell when students are learning and when they’re lost. That’s especially true in a classroom full of computers. Students may be looking at the screen, but are they looking at the right material? Are they falling behind?
Automator

Apple Remote Desktop lets a teacher or lab manager observe, guide, and control each student’s activity — right from their own computer. They can keep individual students on task or walk them through complex problems. They can use text chatting to interact with a single student or a project team without disrupting what everyone else is doing. They can choose any student’s screen and share it with the whole room. Or they can simply drag and drop assignments and handouts to any or all of the computers in class.

Teacher’s Helpers, a free set of Automator workflows, do even more to leverage the power of Apple Remote Desktop in the classroom. They let teachers easily trigger all kinds of actions on their students’ computers, from launching an application to opening a web page to locking screens.