Demonstrate Student Account on Staff Computer–Fast!
People understand better if they can both see and hear what they are to do. This is especially true in an elementary school. If the students can see what you want them to do, they can do it better than if you just explain it to them.
On a laptop , teacher accounts look very different from a student account. To make it easier for the students to see what they are to do, our teacher computers also have a student account on them.
Note: the student account is NOT for students to use. It is only for the teacher to be able to demonstrate using the same setup as the students have.
One drawback to this is that you must log off the teacher account, then log into the student account. This is both tedious and time consuming, especially if, as many teachers do, there are many open programs. The way around this is with “Fast User Switching.”
Fast User Switching allows you to have two or more accounts open at the same time. The only catch is that you can’t have the same program open on both accounts. For example, if you want to use Safari on the student account, it must be closed on the teacher account.
Setting up Fast User Switching only takes a few steps. After that, it’s simply, point, click and the student account opens up.
You will have to log back into the teacher account when you are done with the student account but all your open programs will still be open and everything just as you left it.
Click on Fast User Switching to download directions.
