On Fri, 4 Jun 2004, ian wrote:
It would not be too hard to use VNC to implement a system for teacher to take control of any workstation from anywhere on the network and to "look in" on any student without them knowing. Unfortunately to develop this in an easy to use format which will work with both OSs will cost about £15k and this is the problem. We can't develop things from no resources when there is no guarantee that it will pay for itself.
We have been playing with VNCon recently, and it works fairly well. Lets you have 4,9,16 or 32 (iirc) thumbnails of computers visible on screen, and then to view full screen you just click in the thumbnail. We have had this running on the projector PC so that the students can see that they are being watched. http://vncon.chronetal.co.uk/ It's not 100% perfect, but it's very usable. We've only used it to monitor the windows clients, not yet tried it for our linux clients as there's no need for us (yet...) Steve