Zentrak for Education

A modern solution for student monitoring

Student Monitoring Software

Student learning environments are increasingly hybrid. Whether public, private, charter, virtual or home-schooling.

  • Two thirds (64 per cent) of UK schools use technology in everyday teaching and learning practices.

  • Half (55 per cent) of parents support technology based learning, including remote or hybrid teaching.

Source: 'What’s Working in EdTech Today’, SMART Technologies, 2018 - 2022)

The rise of classroom management technology

Education and teaching is undergoing rapid transformation. Many schools, universities, and other colleges of education have integrated classroom management software into their daily class curriculum. Creating or enhancing students digital workspaces.

94 per cent of primary headteachers and 97 per cent of secondary headteachers say their school had "introduced, increased or upgraded" technology in the previous 12 months.

Source: Education Technology (EdTech) Survey 2020-2 - Dept. of Education Research report, May 2021)liance is required to ensure data protection.

Collaborative learning at the heart of today's digital classroom

What exactly is classroom management software?

  • Classroom management software is a programme, purpose-built for all types of educational institutions, from schools to universities and colleges of further education.

    The technology is often described as classroom monitoring software. But its real-time monitoring and control modules are designed to:

    Support every step of a student’s task in their learning journey.

  • The software maintains the necessary classroom focus by gathering, processing and displaying essential data and information across an entire educational system.

    The key aim is keep students focused, guide the way they learn, and to boost overall productivity.

  • Important factors, also found to produce positive outcomes include time and cost efficiency, and reduced workload.

    • 92 per cent of head teachers state technology helps to save time in financial and pupil data management.*

    • 88 per cent of primary and secondary headteachers said time was saved in governance.*

    • 74 per cent of headteachers believed technology is reducing workload, and would continue.*

    *(Source: Education Technology (EdTech) Survey 2020-2 - Dept. of Education Research report, May 2021)

  • The impact of technology on student performance is shown to be significantly enhanced.

    • 88 percent of headteachers and 84 percent of classroom teachers believe technology contributes to pupil achievement.*

    *(Source: Education Technology (EdTech) Survey 2020-2 - Dept. of Education Research report, May 2021)

Help your students be the champions of communication, collaboration, and connection*.

ZenTrak’s student monitoring system gives administrators of all educational institutions, including public, private, charter, virtual and home-schooling, a real-time look at every single action that happens on students’ computers.


*Works seamlessly alongside G-Suite for Education on Chromebooks and ChromeOS.

Typical classroom management features

Wherever a student's screen is located a teacher's screen can:

  • Track student attendance

  • Monitor student activity

  • Personalise learning

  • Control modules

  • Set restrictions

  • Manage student's behaviour

  • Keep students engaged

  • Direct classroom activities

  • Carry out real time grading.

Manage classroom focus and visibility

Features overview

  • Classroom management software gives real time visibility to the student learning experience.

    Screen sharing means teachers can keep their eyes on the same page - and every single action - on a logged in student's computer.

  • Above all, classroom management solutions is designed to promote collaborative learning for all schools, colleges and other educational institutions.

    A teacher is able to maintain classroom focus by class or individual to create engaging, personalised learning environments directly on student devices.

  • Classroom management software creates a student's unique and personalised learning experience. Teachers and educators can instantly send messages of specific instructions. Or devise tasks accompanied by access to knowledge resources that answer a student's individual learning needs.

    Typically, a teacher can interact directly with student screens by:

    • Either giving instructions to the whole class or privately with individual students.

    • Opening tabs to relevant resource information.

    • Closing non-useful, irrelevant tabs.

    • Comment on a student’s screen on how to find more constructive content.

    • Helping keep students engaged - and away from the many tempting digital distractions of internet browsing.

Key features

  • Keep a watchful eye on students’ research and time management skills. Set the standard now and make an impact on children’s futures. Hold students accountable, teach them how to stay on task, and how to use a computer appropriately.

    See where students struggle and accept no excuses. You will see when students opened assignments and how long they worked on homework. Watch in real-time how students process problems and reach conclusions.

  • See where students struggle and accept no excuses. You will see when students opened assignments and how long they worked on homework. Watch in real-time how students process problems and reach conclusions.

  • It will go on the permanent record. Simplify reporting to the state. Keep your grants and justify funding.

  • Create Alerts or keywords in title bars for trigger words. Prevent and intervene in violence, bullying, and other harmful behaviour. Restrict distracting, malicious and inappropriate content with website and application blocking.

  • The data collected in your ZenTrak account is sensitive. A ZenTrak account is completely secure and protected for teachers, and students to safely message at all times. high-level security features include: password protection, HTTPS encryption, remote storage database, backup database, and nightly database updates.

    ZenTrak classroom management software works on Chromebooks and ChromeOS, operates seamlessly alongside G-Suite for Education*

What is G-Suite for education?

G-Suite for Education is a Google workspace for Education, currently used by over 30 million students and teachers, worldwide.

  • It's a set of easy-to-use, cloud-based digital tools which provide a flexible and secure foundation for:

    • Learning and distributing digital documents.

    • Communication, learning and collaboration.

    Typical features, accessible through personal Google accounts include:

    • Google Docs, Sheets, Slides, Calendar and Google Drive applications.

  • Google Classroom tools can be used to:

    • Assess student task work - Teachers can immediately see which students have completed their tasks properly, and give valuable, real-time feedback.

    • Boost class interaction - Questions, answers, comments, reminders and announcements can all be messaged in real-time between teacher and student, to encourage high communication levels.

    • Manage student workflow: Drive folders are automatically created for each individual work assignment, enabling a student to easily see their next scheduled task.

  • Collected ZenTrak data can be shared with teachers, administrators, parents, and students to:

    • Develop individual and school-wide goals.

    • Create initiatives on how to improve test scores and overall performance.

  • Remote education management of the classroom introduces enhanced reporting of student activity and progress.

    The all in one software collects data for enhanced performance reporting, such as:

    • Tracking student's overall knowledge retention.

    • Assessing student's progress via online testing tools.

    • Using automatic grading tools for student's work.

    All selected data results can be made immediately visible to both student and teacher.

  • Education management software can present the collected and stored data and statistics in more dynamic ways too.

    Specialised graphics tools can use collected data for an enhanced display report on an individual student's grades, which offers additional, vital insights.

Automated administration

Education management software can take control of standard administrative tasks, and remove the burden altogether from teacher's hands.

  • 100 per cent - parental engagement / communication.

  • 99 per cent - pupil data management.

  • 99 per cent - timetabling

  • 97 per cent - support flexible working practices
    (e.g. part-time working).

  • 91 per cent - communication /delivery of governance.

  • 81 per cent - financial management.

Source: Education Technology (EdTech) Survey 2020-2 - Dept. of Education Research report, May 2021.

Research shows a vast majority of secondary schools actively use classroom management software to carry out their key administration tasks.

Every step of a student's task

mportant data and information is recorded of every step taken at each stage of a student's assigned task, including:

  • Helping student enrolment.

  • Logging attendance.

  • Monitoring progress of assigned tasks.

  • Carrying out exam assessments.

A single application across multiple platforms enables easy data tracking in real-time, which also connects administrators, students and parents.

Learning at student's own pace


Classroom management software is able to provide students with course content that allows every student to learn and develop in their own time. Each student will be able to complete both academic coursework and individual assignments at their own speed.

To actively assist in ensuring each student fully understands the task and the work required classroom management software can provide:

  • Instruction videos

  • Messaging boards

  • Online assessments and forums

The ability of a student to learn and progress at their own pace is key to any effective, educational programme.

Future investment in classroom management

Today, around nine in ten secondary schools will have some form of cloud-based storage or system to enable seamless use of classroom management technology.

Teachers and head teachers say they experienced significant benefits, particularly:

  • Improved collaboration and communication

In addition, recent research points to a continuing belief in the need to invest in classroom management technology.

  • 85 per cent of secondary headteachers say they plan to invest in technology in the next three years.

The No.1 areas were clearly focused upon supporting remote teaching and learning, and hybrid learning.

Nearly 4 in 10 secondary schools said they planned to invest in technology for

  • Delivering lessons

  • Communicating and engaging with parents

Almost 1 in 3 headteachers planned to invest in technology to support pupils with special educational needs or disabilities (SEND).

Source: Education Technology (EdTech) Survey 2020-2 - Dept. of Education Research report, May 2021.

 Interested in Zentrak?

The data that ZenTrak collects can be shared with teachers, administrators, parents, and students to develop individual and school-wide goals. Create initiatives on how to improve test scores and overall performance.


Interested in the G-Suite?

Manage your classroom like a pro, keep students on track, and evaluate your own teaching performance by monitoring your students’ computers. Integrating ZenTrak is simple and easy to download and install from G-Suite.