We will continue to update and add new tutorials and tips as we are able.  Thanks for your patience!

In response to the changing needs for teaching and learning in Whitman's classrooms, we significantly upgraded the technology in smart classrooms in Spring 2021 following the COVID-19 pandemic.  The cameras are intended to create a way to record content as well as offer hybrid learning.  We hope to upgrade the technology and make the installations permanent when additional funding becomes available.

This page provides Whitman faculty members with resources for learning how to use smart classrooms and for getting help.

Your teaching methodology: technology usage in 4 scenarios

⓵ In-person: all students are physically in the classroom with you

⓶ Hyflex: in real-time, some of your students are online, some of them are in-person in class with you

⓷ Online, asynchronous:  create content for your students to engage with later online (i.e. not "live").  Only you are in your classroom

⓸ Online, synchronous:  your class is done live, and completely online.  Only you are in your classroom

Quick links to specific technologies:

• Audio: speakers in your classroom
• Camera, Meeting OWL:
  • for hyflex teaching scenario
  • for online synchronous scenario
• Camera, "AViPAS" PTZ (aka "Cyt-Fx4" in Zoom)
• Cameras, switching
• Document camera, AVer
• Document camera, Hovercam
• Laptop, connecting it to your classroom
• Microphone for your online students' benefit
• Microphone for your in-person students' benefit
• Monitor, secondary Acer monitor
• Monitor, wall-mounted*
• Monitor, configuring multiple displays to work together
• Projector
• Zoom settings for classroom use**

* Most rooms have projectors, not wall-mounted monitors
** General settings.  Audio and video settings for Zoom are included in the instructions for specific equipment as needed

Quick links to tips and checklists

• Pre-class checklist
• Preparing content for sharing digitally in your class
• Post-class checklist
• Other important tips
  • What do my online students actually see and hear?

What is all this technology for, anyway?

• Connecting your laptop is better than ever!
• Meeting OWL: what is this, and what's it good for?
• PTZ camera: what is this, and what's it good for?
• Microphones: do I need one? What are my options?
• Another monitor in the classroom? Yes!
• Teaching with a laptop in a classroom? Wi-fi may not be your friend -- on purpose. Turn it off.
• Is my classroom under surveillance? No.

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