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The following classroom orientation guides can help the Laurier community:
The multimedia control panels in classrooms provide a similar range of options for instructors to display their content. Content can be projected from the classroom computer or from a device like a laptop or tablet.
Document cameras are available in all multimedia classrooms. They enhance writing and drawing options in spaces with limited whiteboard area or magnify non-digital content for larger classrooms.
Microsoft Whiteboard is available as a free download or web app that allows instructors and students to collaborate in real-time on an infinite canvas. Shared whiteboards are editable, saved automatically, and can be accessed and updated or reviewed after class. The typing tools are robust and allow faculty and students to fully engage in the whiteboard on any device, without any stylus required.
Whiteboards can be accessed through any web browser on any device, and instructors can edit and share whiteboards in class while giving students the ability to view content clearly on their own devices.
The classroom computer can be used to display the whiteboard to the classroom or instructors can connect the tablet directly to the room’s display system.
Instructors and students log-in using Laurier Single-Sign-on (SSO) credentials on the web, through the desktop or mobile apps to get started whiteboarding. Use the “Share” function in the top right of any whiteboard to get a link that allows viewing or collaboration on any whiteboard.
Faculty and students can leverage cloud-based platforms to facilitate shared document creation and collaboration among students. The collaboration tools in the Microsoft Office 365 suite (including Word, Excel, PowerPoint, and Whiteboard) allow students to simultaneously collaborate using any device.
Both instructors and students can share document collaboration links and simultaneously work in files together during and after class time. Students and instructors can save documents in their OneDrive folders and use the "Share" button in the top menu of any Office document to collaborate in real-time on documents, spreadsheets and presentations. Choose "Anyone with the link" to create a link that will be accessible by the whole class and choose to allow or restrict editing when creating the link.
There are some steps that instructors and students can take to help maintain classrooms for the entire community:
For support for all computer, projector, audio, video, or technology, please contact the ICT ServiceDesk for immediate assistance.
Problems with classroom furniture or facilities issues in classrooms should be directed through the general classroom problem reporting form.
When you arrive at the classroom, log into the classroom computer using your Laurier login credentials. When you’re starting a Zoom session, it’s recommended that you restart the classroom computer to ensure smoothest performance and resolve many issues before they happen.
Classroom computers are hardwired into the internet and will have better reliability and speed as well as being connected into the classroom’s camera and microphone systems to quickly start a Zoom session. Find more information about teaching with Zoom, including configuring its options to get familiar with Zoom's functionality.
Opening Zoom with SSO: Open the Zoom app using Single Sign-On (SSO). Avoid using default Zoom login and password fields, instead locate the “SSO” button next to or below default username and password fields. The company domain is "wilfrid-laurier." Log in using your Laurier credentials.
Starting Zoom Session: Upon starting the Zoom session, ensure the correct room camera, speakers, and microphone are selected. Use the small arrow in the corner of the camera and microphone icons. Indications for the correct camera and microphones are around the bezel on the classroom's computer monitor.
Web conference classrooms contain ceiling microphones, speakers, and cameras in web conference-enabled classrooms are managed through the classroom computer. These devices are selectable as audio and video sources for Zoom meetings. By default, the correct audio and camera sources are pre-selected. Configuration adjustments are possible both before and during a Zoom session.
The Importance of Digital Solutions: While whiteboards in classrooms are effective for in-person students, they are not visible in remote sessions. Digital whiteboarding solutions enhance visibility for all students during Zoom sessions.
Zoom has fully featured whiteboarding options that allow instructors and students to collaborate together and features robust typing tools that allow everyone to participate, no stylus required!
Consider Microsoft Whiteboard for it’s ease of sharing and use beyond the Zoom platform. Access Microsoft Whiteboard as an Office365 web app. Collaborate on an infinite canvas and share editable whiteboards with Laurier Single-Sign-on credentials. Available on the web or through the desktop and mobile app.
Digital Writing with Tablet or Phone: You can either connect your tablet to the classroom’s AV system to show your drawings, or leverage Zoom on the classroom computer and your tablet to draw wirelessly.
Find more information about teaching with Zoom, including configuring its options and getting familiar with its functionality.
Active Learning Spaces have enhanced projection control options than general classrooms as well as connections for students to project their content. Each Active Learning Classroom has its own orientation guide with information specific to each classroom.
Use the black control display on the teaching console to control all of the displays in the room simultaneously.
Use the touchscreen control panel on the teaching console to control all room displays simultaneously. Choose where to display content at the top of the touchscreen and select content using the graphical room layout.
Along the top of the touchscreen, there are two primary options which will control where content is displayed in the room: “Send to All Pods” and “Main Projector”. Whichever one of those options is lit will dictate where the content is sent.
To project a student table's content to all pods, press “Send to All Pods”along the top of the console control panel and choose the student table from the numbered and color-coded options. To send it to the main projector, Select “Main Projector” along the top of the control panel screen and choose the student table to project from the on-screen graphic.
Use the touchscreen control panel on the teaching console to control all room displays simultaneously. Select where you would like to display content and then choose what content you want to display. You can choose either individual screens or “Send to all 6 Pods” to send the same image to all screens in the room.
Use the touchscreen control panel on the teaching console for simultaneous control of all room displays.
To send content to all pods simultaneously, choose either “PC to All” or “Laptop to All”, depending on if you’re displaying the classroom console computer or your own device connected via HDMI or USB-C.
This will also turn on all projectors.
To send content to only the front projector, choose either “PC to Front” or “Laptop to Front”, depending on if you’re displaying the classroom console computer or your own device connected via HDMI or USB-C.
From the Instructor’s console, press the “Breakout” button to return control of each pod screen to its local group.
Student pods will automatically display whichever connection is plugged into the cable below each projector.
When you’re ready to resume sharing content from the instructor’s console, press either “PC to All” or “Laptop to All” to switch to your input.
When you’re finished, turning the system off using the console control panel will also turn off the projectors.
For all Pods to show Console content press the "Pods Show Console" button on the control panel, or from the student pod, press "Source Search" on the white control boxes beside each whiteboard to cycle back to the instructor's content at each projector (DVI/HDMI).