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ELANCO SD

LanSchool User Guide


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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 andmanage class lists and the basic features of LanSchool.

Installation:To install LanSchool complete the following steps

1. After you logon to your computerclick on the Microsoft button at

the lower left hand side of your

desktop.

2. In the Search Box type SoftwareCenter.

3. Select the Software Centerapplication.

4. After the Software Center opens(this could take up to 1 min) select

LanSchool.

5. Click the Install button at thelower 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 (Lowerright hand side of screen) click

on the small up arrow to see all

Icons.

2. Click on the LanScool Icon.

3. In the LanSchool applicationclick on Administer

4. In the Administer drop downselect Preferences

5. In the Preferences pane click onthe Network tab if it is not

already selected

6. Change the Channel Numberto 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 andgo tointranet.elanco.org

2. Click Student Lists

3. Select your school and thenclick 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 arrownext to Save and select

Save As

9. In the File Name field typein the name of the class.

IE. English PD1

10.Click Save11.Repeat Steps 3-10 for all of

your classes


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12.Brows to the location thatyou saved the class files. (by

default they are saved in the

downloads folder)

13.Open the first class file

14.Select and delete the firstline of the file.

USERNAME

15.Save and close the file

16.Repeat steps 12-15 for all ofthe 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 thetoolbar

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 theDownloads folder

6. Select the one of yourclasses

All of the students in

your class should now

be in the left hand

column.

7. Click Save

8. Browse to the folder youwould 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 theManage Class Lists

screen

12.Repeat steps 2-11 foreach 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 toolbar2. 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 tothe location you saved your

classes at in the Importing your

classes section of this guide.

4. Select a class5. Click Open

6. Your Class will load and looksimilar to this

Dismiss a Class:

1. Click Class List on the toolbar2. 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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