Impero
Classroom Management

Utilising Impero on a daily basis can help reduce IT Costs and at the same time, improve productivity and concentration in your classroom by:
- Removing distractions such as flash games and other non-educational resources
- Giving you a comprehensive set of tools to better manage IT Resources
- Providing instructional tools to facilitate classroom management and teaching
- Reducing inappropriate behavior
- Lowering printing costs by reducing wasted paper and toner/ink
- Lowering electricity costs by powering off computers automatically as per schedule
You do not have to constantly monitor your students, Impero will let you know when a someone is straying off task and record the violation. You can even close Impero and it will continue to do its job then report to you when you next log in.
Key Features:
All features can be turned on or off for different teachers, from a central management interface. Impero is a network-wide solution allowing you to manage the whole network, not just 1 classroom.
As a company, we have always listened to your recommendations, and being able to incorporate these ideas into Impero in a matter of days has enabled us to always stay well ahead of any competition.
Instruction / Ease of Use
- Broadcast tutor screen to all or selected students
- Broadcast student screen to others
- Assign tasks for students to complete
- User friendly interface with Quick Access Toolbar
- Access a teacher console from any computer in the network
- Ask questions or give out an electronic exam, Impero will even mark the answers
- Run Files and Websites
Monitoring
- Log all student computer activity to a central database
- Monitor and record an unlimited number of student screens in real-time
- As always, you can monitor 1 or more students from any number of teacher consoles at the same time
- View current and previously opened windows, websites, applications, printed documents and deleted files
- Detect written keywords or sentences with screenshot or video evidence
- View evidence of attempts to access banned windows, websites and applications
- Impero will instantly alert you of violations such as students accessing banned websites - notification when a student is off task
- Perform a number of operations such as logoff or send email upon violation detection
Management
- Blank some or all computer screens, locking mouse and keyboard
- Restrict users to an 'allow-only' list of websites
- Block access to any website, application, folder, hardware device or file
- Schedule any number of actions such as un-blocking flash games during lunchtime
- Change a student network password
- Enable/Disable student accounts
- Immediate, delayed or scheduled power-on/off of computers network or classroom wide
- Create simple or complex grouping structures based on various criteria, eg. computer name
- Send & Collect files from students
- Send instant rich-text messages (add website urls and images)
- Automated shutdown/logoff when computer is idle
- Remote Login / logoff
- Disable duplicate student logons & stop password sharing
- Disable Internet, Printing, USB Flash Drives or Mute Volume with 1 click
- Assign costs to your printers and restrict who can print by giving students credit to print with
Network Administration
- Remote Command Prompt to an unlimited number of computers
- Remote Task & Services Manager
- Remote Event Viewer
- Remote Log on
- Find files on remote computers
- MiMiC Scripting - send keyboard commands to remote pcs
- Deploy Software in MSI or EXE format
- Full Hardware / Software Inventory
- Advanced Blocking / Policy System with Website, MIME, Application or Window filtering + Centralised Internet Firewall
- Lightning Fast Remote Control
- Active Directory & LDAP Integration
- Execute remote processes or websites at elevated privilege
- Automated shutdown/logoff when computer is idle
- Immediate, delayed or scheduled power-on/off of computers network or classroom wide
- Print Management / Cost Control
- Notification low disk drive space and many other alerts network wide
- Software Licence enforcement and logging
Security
- Easily configure who can access an Impero Console using computer name, username, AD/LDAP security groups or IP Address
- Each Impero process is encrypted and protected
- The communication between clients and server uses 256bit AES encryption
- All important files stored on the Impero Server are encrypted
- Impero automatically updates itself using the Internet if any vulnerability is discovered
- Impero will not fail to operate if the network cable is unplugged or if the PC is restarted
- The services continue to run in safe mode and only administrators can uninstall the product
- We offer 1st class support (offices open from 9am to 9pm) and regular product updates.
- You only have to register Impero once on the Internet, not multiple times per Teacher Console like competitors
- If you can think of a feature that is missing from Impero, tell us and we will endeavour to program the feature into Impero within 2 weeks

