Advance in support systems:
Technology advancements have allow a lot more power to
certain individuals, sometimes the bad but for the most part the good, these
people could be teachers say in a school or the technicians that will fix
something as small as email allowing teachers to send websites for the students
to access without people going off on tangents getting the wrong information.
Some websites can have material in it that shouldn’t be seen by students allows
the teachers or it support to block the websites from being used or seen, this
can help stop bulling be it across the web via things like Facebook’s and
MSN.
The disadvantage of such software is that there are many
things limited be it websites, also with each entry the overseer can view all
the work handed in some might put this down as a privacy breach as they don’t
want some work to be seen. Work can be done at a much slower rate with the
teachers overviewing everything that is going on within the computer, with the
power mostly to the teacher they have the option to take control over some
pupils computers to see their work stopping the pupil from advancing further,
this means that the students virtually have no power as they can’t stop or sometimes
don’t know when they are going to be monitored.
When information is checked this can be a long process
depending on the amount of work that is needed to be looked at, when a student
or an employee working within a company has their work looked at they could
have private information that they don’t want shared. There are policies in
which a company has to abide by so information that is critical that might
affect the company is leaked by the overseer, this isn’t a bad thing but sometimes
information can be leaked out for malicious purposes. This can offend some
people and put them at a disadvantage within the company.
There are a few software’s which allow people to look into
the computers a big one is called Impero this is mostly used within the technical
support as it gives a lot of management options and gives a lot of solutions to
problems than might affect the company. This software is a quick block or
report on anything that might cause malicious harm or be something that is inappropriate
for the student to look at. It also allows for teacher to give a quick way of
sending emails such as website addresses for the students to go on to get the
work or information needed, a system like C2K with My-School.
With every software there are the disadvantages with this
one it is the limitations on doing most things although it allows to block and
send information that is about how much it will do, it wouldn’t be the most
secure software either not many things are but when information is leaked it
can cause an uproar.
Net support or My-School Fronter, this is a software which
allows teachers to monitor and instruct on what needs to be done via seeing the
work handed in or giving help sheets to instruct the students on how to do the
work. This allows for teachers to manage
the students on what they are doing and to mark their work to see if anything
is going wrong with misunderstanding. Again the disadvantage of this software
is it is only educational bases and will only provide an overview this means
that large companies can’t use the software as it is put under education use,
the software in itself leaves a student vulnerable if information not meant to
be unloaded is as the teacher can take full control locking folders and meaning
that the student can go in and change or delete once the deadline is in.
Net OP or My-School My Apps, this software on an overcast is software
that allows the technical support to add in software that is only design for
school education for particular fields meaning no new software can be added
unless give permission. The advantage is that the school can keep a good system
of software they know that will only need to be used by the students within the
set courses. The main problem with it is some students studying within other
schools say CLC might have different software installed than the present school
they attend making the long process of getting the software required.
All the software shown above are near the same as they are
educational bases they all give different types of ways in which to monitor the
school system allows for more power to the teachers and less the student in
terms of work submission or restrictive software usage.
With every software there are danger factors as well as
having many advantages, as software they are good in what they are designed to
do it’s only the people using them that has to be watched as well,
educationally I don’t see there to be many large problems such as there is
privacy between student and teacher and if broken can cause more problems. The
software above could be changed to be used within organisations small in size
as I believe large companies will have a more advanced and sophisticated software
doing more than the three software’s above due to their limitations.
For a conclusion I will say that the software above is mostly
about controlling the system there will be a lot of disadvantages and
frustrations but if anything was to go wrong these software’s are great in that
they can solve so many problems that might have been brought up. All software
costs money some more than others what they give is the main reason some cost
more than others everything has limitations but it’s what is needed rather than
what is desired.
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