– By Pushpa Sathish, Staff Writer

ACCESS, a program that enables students to earn credits in courses that are not offered at their schools through online education, will leverage interactive education technology from DyKnow to improve its offerings. The Alabama Connecting Classrooms, Educators & Students Statewide (ACCESS) program, which provides high school students access to advanced level courses and electives that are not available in their district, will use the DyKnow software solution at 44 schools in the state initially. The solution will be rolled out all across the state in the future to make a distance learning laboratory a reality in all public schools in Alabama. ESchool News reports:

The Alabama State Department of Education has purchased licenses of DyKnow Vision and DyKnow Monitor for use in virtual classrooms throughout the state. These classrooms, which are currently equipped with Interactive Video Conferencing and Tablet PCs, will use DyKnow software to enable teachers to instantly transmit content to student computers for annotation and review. Students’ personalized notes can then be saved and replayed at a later date. Teachers will also be able to see a bird’s-eye view of student computers during class and block distracting applications, even at a distance.