Viewing Web and Application History

Viewing Web and Application History

Overview

LanSchool Classic collects and stores a student's Internet and Application History locally on the student's device. This information is then viewable by a teacher from within the LanSchool Teacher Console.

Viewing Internet History

  1. Right-click a student thumbnail in the Teacher Console.
  2. Select View Student Internet History.
   

You can search and also save the history to your teacher computer as a text file.

URL History is limited to 512000 bytes of history data in the .bin file before it begins to rollover the data.

Viewing Application History

  1. Right-click a student thumbnail in the Teacher Console.
  2. Select View Student Keystroke and Application History.
   

You can search and also save the history to your teacher computer as a text file. Click the Clear button to completely clear the history for that student device.

Select the Show All Keystrokes checkbox to see non-alphanumeric keys that were pressed, such as Enter, Backspace, etc.


Application history can track up to 64 open, foreground applications before it begins to rollover the data. 
Keystroke history is limited to 1 megabyte of data before it begins to rollover the data.


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