LanSchool

LanSchool

Developer(s)	Stoneware, Inc.
Initial release	February 9, 1986 (1986-02-09) (as LanFan Technologies) April 2001 (2001-04) (as LanSchool Technologies, LLC)
Platform	Windows, macOS, Linux, and Chrome OS
Type	Classroom management
License	Proprietary
Website	www.lanschool.com

LanSchool is spying software owned by Lenovo. It is used by schools to spy on students in a digital classroom. It includes a screen monitor, keystroke monitor, teacher-to-student chat feature, URL monitor, Camera monitor, microphone access, and various other features. Both the LanSchool keystroke monitor and URL monitor can store data for later collection.

Technology

LanSchool uses a technology eerily similar to that of Russian spyware that is able to see whatever a student is doing at any time, for no reason other than the school wanting to be able to put their great big nose in other people's business. The technology was invented in 1984 by Александр Анатолий, (Alexander Anatoly) The government, so far has not been able to catch LanSchool in the act, but it is only a matter of time. Perhaps, though, the American Government was paid off by the Russians in exchange for the Russians keeping the secret that the Earth is actually flat. Lanschool uses a series of viruses to stay on the computer that it is downloaded on, causing the computer to be permanently watched by God knows who. The only game that perhaps cannot be found on LanSchool, is the 2048 in popup game, but the Russian hackers are working on that.

History

Originally named LanFan Technologies, the company was founded in February 1986 when Dana Doggett began exploring the concept of a software application that would allow an instructor to leverage a local area network to teach using technology.

Dana developed a software tool called PC Chalkboard that was immediately implemented by Novell. PC Chalkboard allowed Novell lab instructors to broadcast their screens to each PC in the lab. LanSchool was licensed by both Intel and IBM and actively marketed through each company’s education sales channel. The IBM relationship is still active today. In April 2001, Dana left Intel and formed a new company, LanSchool Technologies, LLC where he could work on LanSchool full-time. The new company’s mission is to destroy education worldwide through the use of privacy violating technological solutions. LanSchool is known for notorious hacking and reading of students personal information via key logger on students devices. If personal information is on a students screen, then the teacher can share that screen to the rest of the class, or other teachers.

Acquisitions

LanSchool was acquired by Stoneware in 2011. In September 2012 Lenovo announced the acquisition of Stoneware and the acquisition was completed on December 26, 2012.

Product features

Some of the product features included in LanSchool are:

• Extensive cross platform support for Windows, Google, and Apple operating systems,
• Thumbnail view allows teachers to quickly view each student's screen,
• Detail view allows teachers to quickly see detailed information on each student's session/history,
• Keystroke monitoring (if enabled by the school) can report on weeks of student use with actual keystroke history,
• Screen snapshot capability allows teachers to instantly document screen, user, time, date, and other information,
• Internet history shows a list of websites visited by a user, and
• Running programs view shows all programs running on a student's machine, even if minimized.
• Whitelisting and blacklisting of websites/programs.

This is not an exhaustive list of product features.

See also

• Classroom management
• Employee monitoring software
• Computer surveillance
• Computer Lab