Classroom Cloud | Forestals Professional

Classroom Instruction tools

Super easy to set up and use, classroom.cloud provides cloud-based classroom instruction tools to support classroom and remote learners – making it the perfect solution for delivering blended learning in any environment. It’s range of real-time instruction, assessment, collaboration and monitoring tools allow for learning to occur synchronously or asynchronously – making it easy for teachers and students to flex according to their needs.

Easy to use

One of the biggest issues with technology adoption is how easy something is for teachers to use in the classroom. Not with classroom.cloud! It’s designed, tried, and tested with teachers, to ensure its simple-to-use interface makes delivering teaching activities easy. Want to open up a specific web page for your learners in a few simple clicks? You’ve got it! Want to see what your students are up to on an easy-to-view dashboard? It’s right here!

classroom.cloud also makes supporting students with disabilities easy too.

Cloud-based Classroom Instruction, Online Safety, and IT Management

Forget edtech fatigue… we’re all about simple yet essential, affordable tools for schools

From flexible and easy-to-use instructional tools, to online safety features to provide a safe learning environment and IT management tools to help schools centrally manage and maximize their edtech, classroom.cloud is our 3-in-1 award-winning, cloud-based solution, built on impact and evidence.

Key features

Connect to students’ devices quickly and easily by a range of methods to get started with teaching and learning straight away.
Broadcast your screen and audio to connected students to help show/talk them through explanations and lesson activities.
Interact with students in real time via chat and messaging tools, answer help requests, gain instant feedback on topic understanding with class surveys, remote control their screen, and more!
Monitor students’ screens, see what they’re typing and who they’re collaborating with - plus, view their web and application use in real time to ensure they’re on task.
Gain attention by locking students’ screens, blocking webcam use and controlling sound levels from the student’s device, for maximum focus while you explain the lesson activity.
Stay focused with ‘allowed’ and ‘restricted’ website/application lists and control USB usage to ensure students can only access relevant and appropriate material during class. Plus, reset students’ passwords without IT support.

Multi-platform support for use with a mix of devices ensures your school is future-proofed
Use with your already-established Microsoft SDS, ClassLink, Clever or Google Classroom platforms for maximum flexibility and to save time when setting up your technology-led lessons
Technician’s Tools include a hardware and software inventory, plus remote control and PowerShell – helping IT teams see at a glance how they can maximize school technology and support users. Meanwhile, the Audit Log helps schools to keep track of device activity – and the Activity Monitoring shows user activity, including logon time and web/ app usage, in a chronological view. Plus, schools can send and track AUPs, and set school-wide internet and application restrictions to block and approve websites/apps and set the times they can be accessed.
Reduce energy costs with Power Management. This feature allows schools to Power off/on, Restart or Log off class devices – either individually, a selected number, all at once or automated with schedules. Perfect for the end of the school day.
Low cost and scalable from the smallest school to the largest MAT!

Keeping your students safe online

The online safety toolkit (optional component) helps to keep your online environment protected by monitoring concerning activity, identifying students at risk, and spotting trends across multiple languages

Keyword and phrase monitoring: Powered by over 18,000 phrases in multiple languages, schools can monitor the online safety words that students are typing (even in Microsoft Teams). Triggered events can also be deleted (false-positives for example) with the action recorded as an entry in the Audit Log.
Online safety summary reports: Create and send custom (daily/weekly/monthly) phrase match and student concern reports to nominated staff. The email alert contains a link to the portal where the information will be displayed.
Updating keywords: Add your own keywords to the online safety database that are relevant to your school and community – and even share them across your district!
Keyword cloud: When a keyword or phrase is triggered, it populates a word cloud. This is a great way to spot trending topics.
Contextual intelligence-based Risk Index: The context of a triggered event is analyzed (the device used, time of day, websites visited, applications used, history of alerts) and a risk index number is generated, helping staff to determine its severity.
Online safety groups: These can be created to deliver focused monitoring of, for example, specific grades or students considered vulnerable. Specific settings can be applied to each group of student devices with alerts being sent to appropriate staff.
Student ‘Report a concern’: Students can report their concerns by sending a message in confidence to a trusted member of staff.
Online resources: Students have instant access to a range of online support resources – covering topics such as FGM, drug addiction, grooming and bullying. Staff can also manage the pre-populated list and add any additional terms they feel are appropriate.
Security: With its easy-to-use access permissions and reports that can be applied or changed as needed, schools can ensure only authorized staff have access to the most sensitive information. Images or screenshots can also be blurred to ensure maximum confidentiality.

Lead learning in any environment, maximize your edtech, and protect your students.

Teachers

The easiest classroom tool you’ll ever use, classroom.cloud lets you demonstrate, monitor, control, and collaborate with your students to deliver super-engaging, interactive lessons that will keep them immersed and on target for success.

Online safety staff

With clever use of contextual intelligence, and by working with educators, young people and leading charities, the online safety toolkit helps you identify, support and protect students at all times – no matter where they are.

Technicians

Easy to set up, configure, manage and use, classroom.cloud virtually takes care of itself! Integrating directly with your existing infrastructure, you can deploy in minutes and manage teacher and student devices centrally – saving you a bunch of time.