Classwand 1.2.3

Classwand is designed to provide support for a new concept in audience engagement. As a communicator, teacher, and educator harness new tools to magically perform amazing actions on their desktops.

NOTE: To buy Classwand via the App Store an Apple account is required.

Here are some key features of "Classwand":

· Observe - Observe the screens of your audience. With one click, watch all of their desktops in real-time. Pick one to view in full screen or take direct control. Imagine being in an auditorium of one hundred students and not have to climb up to view their screen. It’s as if you were sitting next to him or her.
· Project - Project your desktop for everyone to watch you. Show the entire class what one of your students is doing, by projecting that student's computer on to the class. Talk about motivation! No projector required!
· Distribute - Distribute files to your students and open them, without complicated share drives or email blitzing. Take a PDF, keynote presentation, or virtually any file which you added to you lesson and it will instantly open on all computers. Students can make edits, or take an exam or questionnaire. Then, you collect them. Go completely green with no more photocopies!
· Collect - Distribute files to your students and open them, without complicated share drives or email blitzing. Take a PDF, keynote presentation, or virtually any file which you added to you lesson and it will instantly open on all computers. Students can make edits, or take an exam or questionnaire. Then, you collect them. Go completely green with no more photocopies!
· Collect with one click, and they are automatically filed into their portfolio.
· Plan and prepare - Prepare your instruction by adding a variety of files including movies, audio, iWork Keynote, Pages, PDFs, web sites and more. Organize and prepare your lesson in advance with the lesson planning view.
· Create a Roster - Create a roster out of network computers, and add them to the class. They are then grouped together so you can open up movies or other documents on all of their machines at once with one click.
· Real-Time Portfolios - Each student has a portfolio with copies of their collected work. You can view and mark them up, and instantly return them back. You can even showcase one person’s work by distributing it to everyone in the room!
· Create engaging lessons, by importing media and easily organizing them.
· Then, like magic send your materials to your audience and see it open on all of the machines, whether one computer or 100.
· Grade - materials can be edited in class, or done overnight as homework. Then when you're ready collect them instantly and file them to be graded.
· Teaching view - bring up all of the materials and decide if you want to record your voice with your screen activities, distribute and collect materials, and interact with students.
· Observe your students while they work, or if they get stumped, take control wirelessly and show them how itʼs done!
· Project student - want to show how wonderfully one of your students is doing? Show the rest of the audience by project that student's screen onto the audience.

What's New in This Release: [ read full changelog ]

Enhancements include:
· Detect all available computers automatically now using Bonjou
· Quick Drop Quickly drop in your class recording to distribute to your students, graded student work to send back, or any other file from the finder for quick distribution.
· New UI elements gives more flexibility to layout including new thumbnail only view, thumbnail collapse view, and pure table expand.
· Student iSight photos are now now beside collected documents in the portfolio, as well as beside each computer when teaching.
· One click projection and slideshow

Fixes include:
· Delete key deletes element from any table in any view.
· Clearer labels for lesson and class dropdowns.