Pushing a Website to Students
Overview
The Push Website feature allows you to open a website on one or more students' computers. This feature can help instructors save valuable class time by instantly launching the same website on multiple classroom devices.
Watch this quick video demonstration of how to push websites to students in LanSchool Air:
Pushing a Website to Students
To push a website to one or more students:
- From the Classes page, click a class card for the class you want to start.
- Click START CLASS on the Class Toolbar.
- (Optional) Select one or more students to push a website to. If you do not select any students, a website can be pushed to all students only.
- Click the Push a website icon on the Class Toolbar.
- From the menu, select either Push Website to All or Push Website to Selected.
- Enter the desired website URL, and then click Push.
The website is pushed to all student computers or selected student computers, depending on the option chosen. A new browser tab will open automatically using the default browser on each student device.
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