LanSchool classroom management software is a software program designed to help teachers teach more effectively in a computer-based classroom. Teachers can reduce student distractions by blanking screens, limiting applications and limiting web browsing on student computers. This helps direct student attention from their computer to the teacher and keeps students on task.
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The details view shows columns of information about students. By sorting on the column teachers can quickly see the computer, who's logged in, their current application, last visited websites, last question, channel number and version of the software.
LANschool does exactly what it promises. It allows the teacher to control the computers (Mac/Win) in their classroom. They can see all the screens on the teacher machine. They can remote control the student computer. They can lock the student computer. Excellent software!
I have a class room full with computers so when I teach its hard to monitor each student that what are them doing. So I came up with a solution that is using LanSchool. When we use LanSchool we can monitor what students are doing from teacher's computer. We can lock their computer to keep their attention to the main board. We can share the teacher's screen to the students' computer to clearly demonstrate something or to share a presentation. We grant or deny access to the internet from the student computers. If we need we can remotely control student computer. Students can't remove the software without credentials that are given at the installation.
LanSchool attempts to offer my school a platform for monitoring student laptops in our 1:1 environment. The pluses are that it allows teachers to view, take over, and adjust student computer screens when all is functioning properly. This is imperative in a 1:1 environment in a school.
What I've found on both the MacBook and Chromebook OSs is that students are really adept at finding ways to thwart their system. For instance, in many cases, they just need to toggle on and off their wifi connection or shut their laptop and open it for their teacher to lose access to their device. The teacher can only fix it by entirely rebooting their class. This is a real problem. It also can be slow and a big clunky in terms of features.
Hello Sarah - Thank you for your review and valuable feedback! Regarding students turning off their Wi-Fi or closing their laptops, as it turns out, we do not have any way to control the operating system (Windows, macOS & Chrome OS) via LanSchool. We have heard from many school districts that if students continue to do those things, it becomes a disciplinary issue. Regarding the performance issues that you mentioned, our Product Managers and Development Teams are constantly working to improve product performance, reliability and security. We find that only a small percentage of our customers experience issues. We encourage all customers to ensure that they are on the latest version. You can find that and more at lenovosoftware.com/support/lanschool. Please let us know if there's anything we can assist you with by contacting us at [email protected] We're here to help!
The Story as told by Hacker Dan:During Grade 12, I changed schools, and the new school that I went to had substantially better computing facilities. I thought this was a good thing, but after playing around for a bit, I noticed a little green icon in the system tray that did not seem to do anything. Looking in to this, I found out that it was a program named LanSchool ( ). What is LanSchool you ask? The name makes it sound innocent enough, maybe something to help students? Well, it may have started out that way but what it has become is basically a Trojan horse program for teachers to use to watch everything that you are doing (inducing watching your screen) as well as giving them the ability to control your computer or all computers in the lab at the same time. As usual, the school board decided to spend money on something they could get for free and got a crappier version than what they could have got for free. So I started looking in to LanSchool more and found a demo version on their site. This demo version could not interact with real versions that the school used and would not allow students to do any damage. 1st, I looked in to how it used the registry of the computers that it was on, and found that every time the teacher application sent a command to the student versions it recorded which windows user sent the command, the computer name of the computer that they were on and the time in all registries of every computer on the network. This meant that finding a full version of the software, although not hard, would end you up in a lot of trouble unless you brought your own computer to school and even then still could. So I began to look at the packets it was sending and to my shock they were UDP and not TCP and they had no encryption or coding to them at all. This means that it is extremely easy to spoof the packets. So I quickly wrote up a simple java program to test out my theory. After some time and experimentation, I decoded what most of the packets meant and was able to control the demo version of LanSchool. After looking more at the packets, I noticed that the differences between the demo version and the real version was that the demo version uses only one channel that is never used by the real version. So it was simple a matter of changing the channel byte to a real channel in the packet to get it to work with most, if not all, versions of LanSchool. Also this allowed me to make the registry logs say what ever I wanted, including blaming other students for the hack. Now being the nice guy that I am, I emailed my findings to LanSchool and suggested several ways to fix this exploit. There responses basically said that they would rather spend their time and effort enforcing the rules of the school and the law than fixing their program. They even made threats of legal action as well as suspensions that I could get were I to use this program. So next, I went to my school and actually demonstrated (with their permission) the exploit and how insecure the product was. Again, nothing happened as a result of my efforts, so a month later, I published how the system worked on compsci.ca.It is now almost 2 years later, so I have rewritten my hack so anyone, even script kiddies can use it, even with a nice GUI and everything. My hope is that by doing this, I will teach people why programming software in the same way that LanSchool has been written is bad from a security and integrity viewpoint and to encourage the school board to buy (if they must use such software) better software from companies that know what they are doing and are willing to keep with the times. BTW, LanSchools website still claims that there are no known bugs with LanSchool.Update: LanSchool fixed the security issue on May of 2007 and tried to contact Hacker Dan at this time, however due to a mix up with e-mail addresses this news was not received in till August 2008.
Hello, I am writing to let you know that you have a security flaw in your software, LanSchool v6.5. As with past versions of LanSchool, the system is not secure and uses a communication mechanism that allows for manipulation by anybody on a network whether they have the teacher version of the software installed or not. This becomes even more concerning when you see that this allows the exploiter to manipulate logs that are stored in the registry to what ever they want by manipulating communication appropriately. This would allow some students to exploit the network and then make it look like another student committed the attack from what ever computer they chose. Also the scope of this exploit would go beyond affecting one computer or on lab at a time. With a little thought the exploiter could affect all computers in a school running the software by rotating threw the channels. Or even worse, the attack vector could be used to affect all LanSchool installs on the network that are not protected by a firewall. My recommendation would be to add some level of security to the UDP packets used to communicate to the computers, like a password that is encrypted (through the use of a digest hashing algorithm, such as MD5) and then validate it on the client end agent using a password that it has been installed with. This would make the system as secure as the password and associated storage mechanism and encryption and would only require the installer of the software to add in one more text field. You could still use the UDP protocol with minimal modification to your code.
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