Controlling multiple tutor machines

[Kit]

Hello,

I'm new to the software and I would appreciate any help available. I am planning on deploying ABtutor and Client across 3 rooms each with about 30 machines and one teacher machine. If I install ABtutor on each of the teacher pcs, and the client on the student pcs in each room, is it possible to control these teacher pcs from another pc, i.e. server. In other words is it posssible for one pc to control all other computers whether they be tutor or client machines? This would be important to our organisation and any advice would be appreciated.

Thanks,

Kit

[Andy]

Yes it is possible. You need to install both Tutor AND client on the teachers machine. This does, however, cause a few problems.

- In version 4, when the tutor program is launched, it needs to close the client program in order to scan and detect remote machines. Therefore, if the tutor program is running, then another tutor program will not be able to connect to it.

- In version 5, we've changed this slightly. If the client program detects the tutor program has been installed, then it will 'listen' for tutor connections on port 5152 (not the default 5151) All v5 tutor programs now scan the network on both port 5151 and 5152. This means the client program is never closed and so other tutor will always be able to connect. This only affects ?scanning?. If you connect via a directly via a classroom group to a machine running the tutor and client then the no scanning takes place and so there should be no connection conflicts.