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Faronics Insight User Guide
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Installing Faronics Insight
Option: Using the Google Admin Console
The Insight Student and the Insight Web Helper extension can be installed automatically for
Chromebooks managed by the Google Admin Console for Enterprise or Google Admin Console
for Education. The following steps outline the basic procedures for configuring the Admin
Console to do this.
1. Log into your Google Admin Console using an administrator account.
2. From your Dashboard, click on the "Device Management" icon; then click on the "Chrome"
link.
3. In the Device Settings window, click "User Settings" and make sure the correct organization is
selected on the "User Settings" window.
4. Scroll down to the "Pre-installed Apps and Extension" section and click on the "Manage
pre-installed apps" link.
5. When the "Pre-installed Apps and Extensions" window pops up, click on the "Chrome Web
Store" button and type "Insight" in the search bar.
6. You should see the Insight Student and Insight Web Helper extensions listed. Click the "add"
link next to each app you wish to install. It should move to the "Total to pre-install" list.
7. When you've selected each app to install, click the "Save" button at the bottom of the window.
8. You should now be back at the "User Settings" page. When you're done here, you need to
click the "Save changes" to ensure your modifications are saved.
The next time your managed chrome devices are synchronized with the management console,
those changes should appear. Typically each device will try to synchronize each time a user logs
in however if left alone, the devices can take up to several hours to sync up depending on how
you've configured the policy in the Management Console. You can manually force an update on
each device by typing "chrome://policy" in the browser navigation pane, and clicking the "reload
policies" button.
Note: It can take several minutes for the policy to synchronize, for the applications to download,
install and start up.
Additional Software Notes
• Web Limiting and Chrome "Incognito" mode - The Web Helper Extension MUST have the
"allow in incognito" option checked on the "chrome://extensions" page to limit or prevent the
use of "incognito" windows when web limiting is in effect.
• Screen Sharing - Due to Chrome security settings, the user will be prompted each time they
log in to allow "Insight Student screen sharing". This affects the teacher's ability to see
thumbnails on the Insight Teacher console. We have not yet found a way around this.
• Log Out / Lock - Unlike most other platforms, Chrome extensions are installed on a per-user
basis. This means that if a student logs out of the Chromebook the Student application is
unloaded. This means that the device will become unavailable to the Teacher console until a
user logs back into the device.