Classroom technology at its best!
SANAKO has been a leader in classroom technology for over 40 years and offers progressive software tools allowing educators to present a more interactive enriching educational experience. Study 500 supports teacher-led classroom interaction for the effective teaching of ANY subject, while its classroom management features ensure that teaching is most efficient.
SANAKO Study 500 improves teaching performance by helping teachers:
- prepare classroom materials
- present materials in an innovative and engaging way
- manage and control the classroom
- focus student attention
- verify student understanding of classroom materials
Study 500 combines the use of multimedia and the internet with a suite of essential classroom management tools and is flexible, fullyscalable, and doesn’t require any expensive upfront investment in hardware and was one of the first educational packages to be Microsoft Vista certified.
SANAKO Study 500 is easy to use, easy to install, has a very simple user interface, and offers onshore support. Study 500 is priced very competitively with dynamic flexible licensing (licensing is done on a per seat not per student basis).
Some of the many features included in Study 500 include:
Talk
- Sanako has a long history in the language lab environment and elements of this history are seen in the many enhanced communication features such as talk
- Teachers can speak individually to a student, or to a group of students, or to the entire class through headsets making private conversations easy
- It is also easy for the teacher to address a group of students without interrupting the entire class with the Talk feature
- A favorite feature of Special Ed teachers!
Live Feedback
- Teachers can quickly get a pulse on how the students feel they are following along with the classroom materials with the live feedback feature
- The best part is no additional hardware is required for live feedback or voting, it is all done from the student and teacher pc!
Voting
- The teacher can quickly poll the class by entering a question and sending it out to the class
- Feedback is instantly received on teacher pc
- Graph is shown with the percentage of students responding correctly/incorrectly.
PC Control
- Gives the teacher full control over any or all student pc’s
- The teacher can lock student work station(s)
- Teacher can launch programs to student(s)
- Teacher controls the enabling/disabling of the internet
- Teacher can switch student computer(s) on or off
Screen Control
- Provides teacher with options as to how to monitor student screens
- Thumbnail or autoscan views
- Allows the teacher to share their own desktop or select a student screen to share to others
- Marker tool available for teacher to highlight items and further engage student
Integration to Microsoft OneNote
- Integration to Microsoft OneNote, a digital notebook integrated to Microsoft Office, that provides students one place to gather their notes and information, powerful search capabilities to find what they are looking for quickly, and easytouse shared notebooks so that they can manage information overload and work together more effectively.
- Teacher can take classroom notes in Microsoft OneNote and send them off to the students by simply clicking the integrated ‘Send’ button
- Instantly all students in the class have what the teacher wants them to study and students no longer have any excuses for not studying!
- The teacher can also quickly and easily send off any problem or worksheet they want a student or group of students to work on with the send button as well.
Web browser
- Teacher can open a web browser to the students
- Many options for teacher control
- Students can openly surf the internet or the teacher can easily place restrictions on where the students can and cannot go
- List of restricted or open sites easily saved and pulled up for new class
- Teachers can also have younger students follow along with the teacher and watch where the teacher goes
White board
- A great collaboration tool
- Works especially well in a project based setting
- An image can be placed on the board and, for example, students can work together on a math problem, on a graph, or on a map of the world.
Messages
- Allows students to privately communicate back and forth with the teacher
- The teacher can choose to communicate privately with an individual student, with a group of students, or to the entire class.
Chat
- The teacher is able to monitor and control what is going on in chat sessions
- At anytime the teacher is in charge of chat and is able to save, print, or completely close down sessions
File Functions
- Teachers are able to prepare files in advance and easily set them up for different groups
- Students can sit down and immediately begin working on the appropriate classroom materials
Add On Modules Available
- Admin module allowing system and network administrators to support teachers by monitoring and managing student activity in Study sessions throughout a network.
- Examination Module helping teachers quickly and easily create examinations (with 13 different possible question types) and test students.
- Study Video Live Module allowing teachers to stream video from a variety of analog sources directly to students, easily and conveniently
- Study Blackboard Module providing teachers with instant access to Blackboard LMS by creating a “portal” in the study software
- Content Authoring Module giving teachers power and flexibility by helping them to quickly and easily create original learning material that combines text, audio, video and images.
System Requirements
Microsoft Windows 2000, XP,Vista
1 GHz Processor
256 MB Memory
15'''Monitor
AC97 compatible sound card (*)
Network Adapter
*Please contact your local distributor for a list of suitable sound cards.
Study 500 from SANAKO
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