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CrossTec Corporation CrossTec and EDTools Combine Innovative Educational Software Products to Help Teachers Teach and Manage Student Computer Usage Special CrossTec promotion offers Steadfast restore on reboot software Free with NetOp School purchase Boca Raton, Fl- CrossTec Corporation (www.NetOpUSA.com) has announced a special promotion thru June 30th, the end of the fiscal school year, in an effort to further improve education throughout North America by reducing computer support costs. Customers will receive a free license of EDTools’ Steadfast restore on restart software for each NetOp School student seat that is purchased. Combining Steadfast along with NetOp School software allows children to be creative and explorative on classroom PCs without extensive filtering and blocking, while NetOp School enables teachers to monitor, interact with and control classroom technology. "Having NetOp and Steadfast together decreases the amount of technical intervention students need on a daily basis, thereby increasing instructional time. Teachers have the ability to monitor students work stations and students can experiment and be creative with applications without fear of deleting needed files,” explains Myra Cox, Computer Discovery Teacher, Tupelo Middle School. Clever instructional technologists have discovered the incredibly useful combination of these two technologies for managing students and PCs in technology enriched educational environments. Right now, and only from CrossTec Corporation or authorized partners, educational institutions can take advantage of both solutions for the price of one. Steadfast’s restore on restart technology allows students unrestricted use of their PC, however any and all changes made are rendered temporary, and the computer is completely restored to the original image with a simple restart. “We regard CrossTec as a perfect representative for EDTools solutions. The fact that CrossTec is the most successful representative in the world for a comprehensive classroom solution like NetOp School, means EDTools Steadfast immediately can begin to ensure numerous teachers throughout the United States that their computers will operate reliably day-in and day-out.” Marcus Nyman, COO of EDTools Inc. Steadfast EDTools Steadfast is the perfect invisible guard and safety net for computers in public environments such as schools. Once deployed, it will work silently and automatically by completely restoring protected computers to their intended states on every reboot. Schools that commit time and effort to deploying advanced IT solutions in schools, such as NetOp School, can now ensure that their solutions work all the time, at the start of every class and on every computer. Constant administration of software or computers not working due to alterations done by users is no longer necessary. EDTools Steadfast is the key to making all other software systems work the way they should, and Steadfast prides itself in maximizing the use of your other IT solutions. NetOp School NetOp School enables a teacher to increase student time-on-task by being able to monitor their PC activity while they work. Teachers can also enhance classroom interactivity with NetOp by broadcasting live demo screens to participants; mark-up the featured screen to highlight a lesson; create monitored chat rooms or allow students to send youprivate questions via an instant message button located on each student’s PC. NetOp School provides many other useful tools to help instructors multi-task their efforts including the ability to send coursework and files to all student PCs, remote control students for one-on-one instruction, shut down or restart PCs individually or simultaneously, broadcast and control multimedia files and view their classrooms in several different ways. NetOp School won two prestigious awards in 2002. In May, the product was named winner of the Media and Methods Magazine Portfolio Award and in December it was honored with the "Award of Excellence" from Technology and Learning Magazine, About CrossTec CrossTec Corporation, founded in 1996, is the resource in North America for the award-winning NetOp family of remote management and training software products. Based in Boca Raton, Florida, CrossTec Corporation provides sales, support and training through a network of authorized partners to larger corporations, organizations and educational institutions. CrossTec has been nominated the past two years as South Florida’s Top Software Company and is proud to be a member of CompTIA, The Help Desk Institute and is a CMP Channel Advocate. NetOp School classroom packages are available at prices starting at $639. For a free fully functional evaluation copy of NetOp School, and additional information regarding the special promotion, visit the CrossTec Web site at www.NetOpUSA.com, call 800-675-0729 (561-391-6560) or e-mail info@crossteccorp.com. For more information, please visit www.NetOpUSA.com To learn more about this special promotion visit www.crossteccorp.com/netopschool/steadfast.htm * Promotional period runs from 5/1/2003 thru 6/30/2003, while quantities last. Free product offer valid only on paid purchases of standard, pre-packaged NetOp School software purchased from CrossTec Corporation and/or any of its authorized resale partners. This offer cannot be combined with any other promotion, discount, or special order licensing. CrossTec Corporation is the sole determining authority over eligible purchases and retains sole discretion and full authority in determining such eligibility and in resolving any dispute or disagreement deriving form this offer. Promotion can be terminated anytime for any reason or extended per the sole discretion of CrossTec Corporation. EDTools and Steadfast are registered trademarks in the United States and other countries. ### Please address editorial inquiries to: Melissa Hoffman, Public Relations Coordinator CrossTec Corporation 800-675-0729, FAX 561-391-5820 Melissa@CrossTecCorp.com |