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title: "Assisting Students"
slug: "assist-students"
tags: ["NFR"]
updated: 2024-09-26T19:28:46Z
published: 2024-09-26T19:28:46Z
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# Assisting Students

During Class you may want to watch your students' progress in their labs. This can be done with the Lab Monitoring Tool.

By using lab monitoring you can see a listing of all students' running labs which includes:

- Name of the lab being worked in
- Active Virtual Machine in the lab
- How long the lab has been running
- Amount of time since the student's last activity was performed in the lab

You can also take actions through the lab monitoring tool like:

- View the student's lab as they work in it
- Take control of the student's lab
- Share files with students

[Watch a video on lab monitoring.](https://youtu.be/YzUQveZ56tQ)

To monitor and assist students:

1. Select **My Calendar** at the top of any window.
2. This will open up your Instructor Calendar. Find your class in the calendar and select on the class name to open the **Class** page. You may also access your current class from the My Classes link on the top navigation bar.
3. Select **Monitor Labs**.
4. A new browser tab will open up with all your class's active lab instances displayed with pertinent data about their labs. Select the **Monitor Student** to view a student's activity as they work in a lab.
5. You then have the option to select **Take Control** to work through an exercise with a student.

A class is a scheduled instructor-led event with a start and end time/date. Typically, these include lectures and hands on activities such as labs.

A tool used for monitoring students' progress in labs, track, and record various aspects of students' activities during lab sessions. It helps instructors assess individual student performance, identify areas of improvement, and ensure lab requirements are met.

A virtual machine is the virtualization or emulation of a computer system. Virtual machines are based on computer architectures and provide the functionality of a physical computer.