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Focus Time

What is Focus Time?​

Focus Time is the main feature you'll use when teaching your actual lessons. It lets you see your students' screens in real-time and helps keep them focused on the lesson.

What can you do with Focus Time?
  • See all your students' screens in real-time during lessons
  • Share your screen with students
  • Block students from accessing games or other distracting websites
  • Send learning materials directly to students

How to use Focus Time​

Go to Focus Time​

📍 Main Page → Click your class in the timetable → Click [Focus Time] in the left sidebar

Step 1: Start your lesson​

  1. Check the [Please check before starting] box
  2. When the [Start FocusTime] button turns green, click it

Step 2: Confirm lesson start​

  1. If you see a message that another teacher is teaching, click OK to start your lesson
When should you start Focus Time?

Only start Focus Time during your actual class time. Starting it outside of class time might disturb students who are in other lessons.

Features you can use during lessons​

  1. Focus Pen: Click the 🖌️brush icon to write on the screen with a pen. You can change colors, use the eraser (partial delete), and clear all (trash can).

  2. Teacher Screen Sharing: Click the 🖥️monitor icon below Focus Time to share your screen with students. You can share: (When using Chrome browser)

    • Chrome Tab: Share a Chrome browser tab you have open
    • Window: Share a specific window running on your computer
    • Entire Screen: Share your entire screen

  3. Screen Lock: Click the 🔒lock icon to lock students' screens. Students will see a black screen with the message "Please pay attention to the teacher." Click the 🔒lock icon again to unlock.

  4. Full Screen View: Click full screen view to see the screen in a larger view.

  5. Focus Monitoring: You can check students' attention levels through student screen monitoring. The border color around each student's screen indicates their focus level:

    • Green border: Students with high lesson focus
    • Orange border: Students with low lesson focus
    • No border color: Students with average lesson focus

  6. End Lesson: When the lesson is over, press the Quit button to end the lesson.

  7. Lesson Time Adjustment: Click [–5 / +5] below the Focus Time screen to decrease or increase lesson time in 5-minute increments.

  8. Student Screen Sharing: Click on a student's screen below the teacher screen to share that student's screen with everyone.

Share resources​

Click the [Share Resource with Students] button to share links or files with your students.

  1. Share a link: On the 'Links' tab, enter a link and title to share, then click the [Share Link] button to send the link to your students.

  2. Share a file: On the 'File' tab, select a file to share, and it will be shared with students.

App/Web Control​

You can manage which apps and websites students can use during your lesson.

  1. Click [Apps and websites you want to control student use] and then click the [Add App/Web Control Settings] button.
  1. Select the sites you want to block and click the [Done] button. The selected sites will be automatically blocked for students. To unblock, click the checkbox of the app/website again to deselect it from the control list.