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SERVSWITCH™ PROFESSOR
4.3.9 XS
HARE
S
TATION WITH
A
NOTHER
S
TATION
The XShare Station with Another Station command is used to allow one or more
students to share control of a CPU with one of their fellow students. Issue the
command by:
• pressing and releasing the left [Ctrl] key,
• pressing the [F10] key,
• designating the
sharing
station address (the address of the station[s] that will
be sharing a CPU that isn’t theirs),
• pressing [Enter],
• designating the
shared
address (the address of the station whose CPU will be
shared), and
• pressing [Enter] again.
Refer to the note at the start of
Section 4.3
.
When you issue the XShare command, the two or more stations involved share
keyboard and mouse control according to the keyboard-timeout setting (see
Section 4.3.18
). (Note that the ServSwitch Professor system will not apply the
keyboard timeout of the shared station to all of the sharing students; rather, it will
use the different timeouts that you’ve individually set for each of those students’
stations.) If the student at the shared station is using the keyboard and mouse
when you issue this command, that student will retain control, but any of the other
sharing students can take control as soon as the student at the shared station stops
using the keyboard and mouse for the duration of their keyboard-timeout setting.
The student that then takes control will retain that control until
they
stop using the
keyboard and mouse for the duration of
their
keyboard-timeout setting.
Issuing the XShare Station with Another Station command with a viewing station
address of All ([F12]) will divide control of the shared station’s CPU among all
students and yourself. Alternatively, you can issue several XShare commands in
succession to designate only a subset of students to share control of the shared
station. For example, [Ctrl][F10][F6][Enter][F8][Enter] followed by [Ctrl][F9]
[F7][Enter][F8][Enter] will cause stations 6, 7, and 8 to share control of
student 8’s CPU. (However, the ServSwitch Professor’s bus will only handle video
data from a single source at any given time, so although multiple students can
share a single student’s CPU at the same time, student A can’t share student B’s
CPU while student C shares student D’s CPU or while you, the instructor, view
student E’s video.)
