Impero Education Pro classroom management software

Impero Education Pro (often called Impero EdPro, developed by Ativion, formerly Impero Software) is an all-in-one classroom management, student online safety, and IT network management software suite. It lets teachers view live student screens, broadcast demonstrations, lock devices, and restrict websites across Windows, macOS, ChromeOS, and iPad, while giving safeguarding leads a central Log Viewer for keyword alerts and giving IT teams remote control, hardware and software inventory, power management, and print credit controls.

Impero Education Pro is built for K-12 schools, school districts, community colleges, and universities. IT directors and network managers deploy and manage the central Impero Server, classroom and CTE / business lab teachers use the Impero Console (or web interface) every period to guide students, and safeguarding leads and administrators use the Log Viewer to investigate online safety violations. It is an institutional platform licensed to educational organizations, not for individual consumer or student use.

To get the setup files, Request a Free Trial and our team will provide the Server and Client installer package along with your activation key. Installation then follows three parts:

1. Install the Impero Server on a dedicated Windows machine (or in your school’s private AWS / Azure environment) and activate it with your trial or school license key.
2. Deploy the Impero Client silently to Windows PCs (via Group Policy, Intune, SCCM, or the built-in Remote Deploy MSI wizard), install it on Macs, push the Chrome extension via Google Admin Console for Chromebooks, or deploy the iPad app via MDM.
3. Set Console Access Rights. Student and teacher computers use the same client package; IT simply designates which staff members or Active Directory groups can open the Impero Console in Server settings.

A single Impero Server supports up to 5,000 concurrently connected client devices and up to 1,200 groups. It runs on a dedicated Windows or Windows Server machine (not recommended on a Domain Controller) with 120 GB of free disk space, keeping free space at least 3x the size of your Data\Logs folder. Processor and RAM scale with fleet size: dual-core / 4 GB RAM for up to 1,500 clients, quad-core / 8 GB RAM for up to 3,000, and octa-core / 8 GB RAM for up to 5,000.

On a single flat subnet, the Impero Client locates the Impero Server automatically via UDP broadcast. On segmented networks with multiple VLANs, create an internal DNS Host (A) record named impero_server (or IMPERO-SERVER for RFC-compliant non-Windows DNS) pointing to the server’s IP address. Alternatively, deploy a ServerIP.txt or ServerIPFixed.txt file to client machines, or pass the server IP via MDM (imperoServerAddressKey on iPadOS) and Google Admin bookmark policies on Chromebooks.

Clients and Consoles talk to the Impero Server over your internal LAN / VLAN, starting at TCP/UDP 30016 for main server communication, TCP 30017 for audio, TCP 30019 for browser extension loopback, TCP 30020+ for peer-to-peer screen viewing and file transfer, and TCP 30021 to 30022 for Chromebook connections and thumbnail streaming. The server uses outbound HTTPS (TCP 443) to *.imperosoftware.com and *.globalsign.com for licensing and updates. During deployment, IT adds standard antivirus folder exclusions for the Impero installation directory.

Impero Server integrates with Active Directory and LDAP so IT can map Console Access Rights to AD security groups, create dynamic User and Computer groups using wildcards (such as IT01*), and set Group Priorities (Low, Medium, High) so staff privacy rules always supersede room rules. For class rosters, sync automatically via Clever, ClassLink, OneRoster, Google Classroom (up to 400 classes per teacher), or scheduled daily UTF-8 CSV imports (teachers.csv and students.csv).

Yes. Ativion supports four options for off-campus devices:

1. Campus VPN: remote devices connect through your school’s VPN tunnel and behave like on-campus machines.
2. DMZ public IP: place the Impero Server in your firewall DMZ, reachable by a public IP, and view live thumbnails through the browser-based web interface.
3. Cloud-hosted server (AWS or Azure): host your Impero Server instance in Amazon Web Services or Microsoft Azure.
4. Offline policy enforcement & sync (Windows & Mac): with no network changes at all, clients keep enforcing their last received safety and block policies off campus, log activity locally, and upload captures to the Log Viewer when the laptop reconnects to the school network.

Impero Education Pro runs as a protected background system service (ImperoClientSVC.exe and ImperoGuardianSVC.exe) rather than a removable user-space app. Administrators can disable Windows Task Manager, Command Prompt, registry editing, and USB .exe launches by policy. Although the same MSI installs both the Client and the Console, access to the Impero Console is locked on the server through Console Access Rights and a session password, and IT can enable the Hide Desktop Shortcut setting on the Students group so the Console icon never appears on student desktops.

No. Impero Education Pro has no function to turn on, control, or record a device’s webcam. For safeguarding evidence and instructional review, it can capture screenshots or record the on-screen desktop activity of a Windows or Mac computer (which records whatever is visible on screen, such as an open video meeting window, without audio and at a reduced frame rate), protecting student and household camera privacy.

Yes. Following the combination of Impero Software, Netop, and ContentKeeper under Ativion, standalone Netop Vision and legacy Impero Classroom have been retired. Impero Education Pro is the closest like-for-like replacement for computer labs and on-premises school networks, giving teachers the same familiar one-click live screen view, screen broadcast, attention lock, and web lock so staff can transition with virtually no retraining.

Impero Education Pro is licensed as an annual subscription based on the number of devices, for single-school or multi-site district deployments. Get a Quote within one business day, or Request a Free Trial to receive the official Server and Client installer files, trial license key, and guided setup support so your IT team and teachers can test Impero Education Pro on your own network before purchasing.