Disable Find Feature for Tutors

[romanx]

We currently have AB Tutor in 5 areas, each install is set up to find only the PCs in it's local VLAN using the arguments in the path.

The new version of Ab Tutor says it allows us to disable the find feature for tutors. We've tried doing this but it disables it for the administrator login as well for each designated area.

Can anyone help in regards to sorting this out?

[Andy]

Yes, due to many requests on this issue, in version 5.5 we have added the option to disabled the 'Find' button to prevent Tutor from changing the classroom groups. These types of restrictions are applied to Groups and even if an Administrator selects this group, the restrictions are still applied.

If you are an Administrator and want access to the '<All>' group, you need to make sure you launch AB Tutor Control without specifying a Group on the command line. That way you will be able to select not only the '<All>' group but any other groups defined.

From what I can gather, you have setup VLANs to restrict each Tutor Control program from connecting to other machines outside the VLAN. Then you are using the '<All>' group to scan and find all computer within the VLAN.

What you should do to limit access to a VLan is the following:

1. Launch AB Tutor with administrator access within each VLan
2. Scan for and connect to all the computers within that VLan
3. Add them all to a Classroom Group (Select 'Groups' - 'Add to new group')
4. Set an Administrator password, if not already done (See 'Tools' - 'Settings' - 'Password' tab). We suggest setting a Tutor password as well just to prevent unauthorised users using the Tutor program.
5: Now, when the Tutor program is launched and the user enters the Tutor password, they are forced to select the newly created Classroom group containing all the machines within the VLAN. (Or other sub-groups you might have setup within the VLAN)
6: If you don't want to get the Tutor to even select the new Group, you can specify the group name on the command line of the AB Tutor Control icon.
e.g. ABControl.exe -g "Classroom 4" (Please not that you will need to launch the Tutor program without this command line if you are wanting to access the Tutor program as an Administrator and not be forced into that group)

I hope this answers your question.

Andy