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Managing the Virtual ClassroomTools to help minimize distractions and maximize learning when instruction is remote.
Table of Contents
Get Ready to Go Remote 3
Calculate Seat Time When Students Aren’t at Their Desks 4-6
Mimic Your Whiteboard When You Can’t Be In Front of The Class 7-9
Keep Students on Task When You Can’t Peek Over Their Shoulders 10-11
Enforce Internet Policies Outside of the School Building 12-14
Ensure Students are Engaged Even When They’re At Home 15-17
Never Lose Focus on Learning 18
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Get Ready to Go Remote
Learning isn’t just going to look different state-to-state in 2020-21.
It’s going to look different district-by-district — - and in some cases
school-by-school and student-by-student.
Much of the decision-making regarding “return to learn” plans will
be made at the local level. Some schools will bring students back
to the classroom. Others will keep learning remotely. And then
there are those planning a blended approach. Parents may even
choose to keep their children home no matter how their district
moves forward.
2020 has certainly taught us to adapt. So, even if you’re planning
for students to return to the classroom come fall, that doesn’t
mean they’ll still be there by winter. If COVID-19 ramps up, many
districts may be forced to close their doors again and transition
instruction online to combat the spread of the virus.
Learn how NetRef can help solve some of the challenges of remote learning with tools for managing devices, monitoring internet and app activity, and measuring student usage and engagement.
By April 3, 2020, 83% of parents reported that their child was receiving some form of online instruction.
Source: Gallup Panel, 2020
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Calculate Seat Time When Students Aren’t at Their Desks
Before the pandemic, Ms. Roan took for granted
how easy it was to take and report attendance. All
she had to do was scan the room to see who was
missing! Now that instruction has moved online,
she doesn’t know who’s logged in and learning.
How is she supposed to determine which students
are “attending” her class and show that she’s
meeting requirements for her district’s remote
learning plan? And, if she can’t take attendance,
how will her administrators submit data for school
accountability reporting?
22% of teachers said they didn’t take
attendance at all during distance learning classes last spring.
Source: Educators For Excellence
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SOLUTIONWith NetRef, Ms. Roan can set rules for how long students must be
online each day, and even which sites or apps they need to be active
on, to be counted as present.
Ms. Roan can pull up NetRef’s Engagement report to see which
students met the attendance thresholds set by the school or district.
Students with an “A” did not spend the required time online focused
on learning.
2 hours, 2 minutes
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SOLUTIONMs. Roan can view attendance by school, classroom or student according to her specified date range.
The Engagement report provides a trend line for attendance so Ms. Roan can gauge day-by-day which instructional strategies, programs and activities are working to keep students focused on learning.
A pie chart shows at-a-glance student engagement in online learning for the date range Ms. Roan chose to view.
2 hours, 2 minutes
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Mimic Your Whiteboard When You Can’t Be In Front of The Class
Now that Mr. Jimenez has transitioned his math
classroom online, he misses being able to walk
through a problem with his students before having
them solve equations on their own. And in the past,
when a student was having trouble, he’d sit down
and talk them through each step to pinpoint where
they were making mistakes. How is he supposed
to provide that kind of small group or 1:1 support
when there are miles (and screens) separating him
and his students?
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SOLUTIONUsing the screenshare feature in NetRef, Mr. Jimenez can
share a screen or an application he has up on his computer
with a student or group of students to model steps for
working through a problem.
And when he wants to work 1:1 with a student,
he can view their screen in real-time to watch
them work.
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Mr. Jimenez can even broadcast a student’s screen to
a small group or the entire class to show how they
found the solution.
SOLUTION Get Everyone On the Same Site Quickly
Have a website or page you want a student or class to visit? Rather than
send them the URL, you can use NetRef to push the site to their
devices. It will appear just as though they opened a new tab on their own.
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Keep Students on Task When You Can’t Peek Over Their Shoulders
Mrs. Hoff used to walk around the room while her
students worked on their devices just to make sure
they were using the websites and applications
they were supposed to be. Now that students are
learning from home, she wonders what other tabs
they have open while they’re on their morning
Zoom meeting. Are they playing Minecraft when
they’re supposed to be working on concept maps?
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From the NetRef teacher dashboard, Mrs. Hoff can monitor
internet and app activity for every student in every class she
teaches across the district in real time.
She has a couple of options for how to view their activity.
She can see which tabs her students have open.
SOLUTION Is Arianna More Interested in Cat Videos Than Concept Maps? When you notice that a student is distracted, use the NetRef instant message feature to send them a quick message to get back on task. You can send messages to individuals, small groups or your entire class.
Or, she can see what
they’re currently
viewing on their
screens.
Enforce Internet Policies Outside of the School Building
Mr. Fairchild has a test coming up at the end of
the week, and he might be more nervous than his
students. They’re taking it online, and he needs
to find a way to deter cheating. What’s going to
stop students from simply looking up the answers
online? How will he know if they’ve truly mastered
the material?
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NetRef gives you a number of options for allowing internet and
application use for your class, and essentially functions as an
on/off switch. Mr. Fairchild can turn the internet and apps on
for an individual student or entire class.
Or he can turn it off completely.
SOLUTIONUsing the Allowlist, Mr. Fairchild can even limit students’
access to only the specific apps, sites or subdomains he has
approved at any given time. For example, during testing
periods, Mr. Fairchild can grant students access to only the
testing website.
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Alternately, Mr. Fairchild can set a Blocklist to
keep access wide open with the exception of
sites, subdomains and apps of his choosing.
Mr. Fairchild can create these lists for each of
his classes, and they won’t affect the rest of the
school’s internet access — only the classes he’s
created custom lists for.
Not only can Mr. Fairchild set these rules at the classroom level,
he can create a permanent Blocklist for an individual student, too.
SOLUTION
Once created, he can apply the
Allowlist and Blocklist rules to
a student. Or Mr. Fairchild can set the rules
for the entire class.
Ensure Students are Engaged Even When They’re At Home
Mrs. Mori’s students are turning in their
assignments, but she’s not sure how much effort
is actually going into their work. Are they simply
looking up answers and not doing the required
reading (and learning)? Are they actually putting
in time to research their papers, or are they
relying on online encyclopedias? Participation and
engagement are so important to learning, and she
wishes there was a way to ensure they aren’t lost
during remote instruction.
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NetRef’s reporting features can tell Mrs. Mori pretty quickly how
much time students are actually spending on instruction and
schoolwork at both the individual and classroom level while
they’re working from home. And, of that time, how much of it is
spent on-task.
She can see how much time students are spending online
or on unique or blocked sites.
She also can view the time they’ve spent on task vs. off
task based on their activity on allowed sites.
SOLUTION
The reports tell her what sites the student or class is on
most, and how much time they spend on them.
On average, teachers report that only
60% of students regularly engage
in remote learning activities.
Source: Upbeat
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SOLUTIONAnd how much time they spend on allowed or blocked sites.
Mrs. Mori can even compare time spent on specific sites and
applications between students in the entire class.
Never Lose Focus on Learning
Many teachers report that participation, student engagement
and staying focused on teaching and learning were all a
challenge when instruction went remote in the spring. As a
result of school closures, students suffered greater-than-normal
learning loss that teachers will be tasked to make up when
instruction resumes this fall. Whether learning takes place in
person, online or a blend of both, NetRef’s easy-to-use device,
internet, and application activity monitoring and management
controls can help ensure that students stay engaged.
Learn more about how NetRef can support teaching and learning this school year. Contact us to talk with our team about your specific challenges and how NetRef can solve them.
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View a complete list of NetRef features for device management, network monitoring and usage reporting.
Side Effects of the Sudden Shift to Remote Instruction
Only 9% of teachers said that 91-100% of students participated daily in their
distance learning program.
86% said that student engagement was a somewhat to very serious obstacle to
the effective implementation of distance learning during the outbreak.
87% said staying focused on teaching and learning in the midst of the pandemic was a somewhat to very serious challenge.
Source: Educators For Excellence
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Classroom Management
Oversee device use for every student in real time and direct activity in a click — whether
students are in the classroom or learning from home.
• Remote attendance reporting
• Teacher and student screensharing
• Real-time usage monitoring (view by screen, tab title or URL)
• Improved teacher dashboard
o Accommodates co-teaching and rule sharing
o Includes all classes taught across a district
• Robust student and class usage reporting
o Number of sites visited and blocked
oTimespentonlineandonspecificsites
o Student usage comparisons
• Website and app pushing
• Internet and app on/off controls
• Automated rule application and custom rules by class
•Allowlisttolockdownaccesstoonlyspe
cificsitesandapps
•Blocklisttokeepinternetopenwiththee
xceptionofspecificsitesandapps
• Granular subdomain management
• Screen shots from previously visited sites and apps
• Instant messaging
• Easy class editing
o Merge classes
o Change class names
o Add/remove students
o Create ad-hoc classes
•Real-timecontentfilteringwithCipafilter
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