Bulwark Technologies, value added distributor for NetSupport Products in Middle East, have conducted sales and technical training on NetSupport Manager - the remote desktop management solution and NetSupport School - Classroom Training Software. This is being arranged as a part of our continued efforts in building up technically strong channel partners for delivering the solutions effectively to the end users with proper support for NetSupport products.

The training session was conducted by Mr. Varkeychan Davis, Sr. Technical Consultant at Bulwark's training facility in Dubai Silicon Oasis.

“In recent months, we have experienced an increase in requests from end users and our channel partners in the region for remote desktop management solution. This is a part of centrally managing the systems in the branches and remote offices for various helpdesk functions supporting users. The educational and training institutions in the region are implementing lat....

The flexibility offered by ‘virtual’ learning environments is proving very popular across the United States education system, none more so than at the Phoenix Academy, where students are able to supplement their traditional classroom lessons with additional computer based training.

As Academy Director, Dr Walter Wolff explains; “Many of our students are attempting to make-up classes while others are taking additional lessons so they can graduate early from high school. Phoenix offers flexible scheduling to include classes both during the day and in the evening.”

While students enjoy the independence that this type of learning provides, the challenge for schools is how best to monitor the use of the technology, ensuring students are focused on the topic in hand and not using the equipment for more ‘personal’ matters! Equally, teachers still need the ability to engage and interact with the students when appropriate.
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One of New Zealand’s foremost educational institutions, Christchurch High School for Girls, has installed NetSupport School in its ICT labs.

The market-leading Classroom Management solution has helped facilitate a much more focused approach to computer led lessons with teachers able to call upon a wide range of PC monitoring and real-time presentation tools. Although software of this nature can sometimes arouse suspicions among students, especially those who would prefer to have a little more freedom to surf, Christchurch High have been able to offset these concerns by extolling the virtues of the product as a collaborative tool that has many features designed to aid topic understanding.

NetSupport School encourages group working, with the Teacher able to delegate certain tools to selected students or “Group Leaders”. Within their Group, these Leaders can show their screen to selected students, conduct a group chat and/or collaborate on c....

The International Society for Technology in Education (ISTE®) is the premier membership association for educators and education leaders engaged in improving teaching and learning through the effective use of technology.

The Colorado Convention Center in Denver has just hosted ISTE's annual conference and expo (formerly NECC) and the event once again provided the ideal forum for NetSupport to update visitors on some of the exciting developments that have taken place in recent months.

NetSupport have been working hard not only on their own product enhancements but have also been instrumental in helping their industry partners introduce new technologies into classrooms around the world.

Shared-resource, thin client and desktop virtualization solutions were among the many emerging platforms in evidence at ISTE and over the past year NetSupport have been busy optimizing their market-leading Classroom Management software solution to support these....