Classroom Technology for Remote Instruction

A Faculty primarily lectures from the front of the classroom with all students sitting in a physical distanced grid formation facing the lectern.

Faculty can facilitate whole class discussion, but may need to repeat questions stated in the classroom for remote students.

This model integrates a room camera, microphone and Zoom functionality into the technology currently installed in Biola's classrooms streamlines and automates the process. The classroom hardware facilitates starting/stopping the Zoom class session as well as selecting the appropriate room camera, microphone and speakers. Faculty can present content wirelessly or using the podium's HDMI cable to plug in their laptop.

• The classroom will be outfitted with a Crestron Zoom Room kit which includes a 10-inch screen to control the Zoom meeting and support for multiple external USB cameras and mics. 

• A faculty laptop is not needed to control the Zoom meeting, though is needed if the faculty member has powerpoint slides or other content to share.

• The external camera and mic will capture the faculty member and a single whiteboard. Additional cameras can be added and controlled from the Crestron control panel.

• The Zoom meeting can be easily started manually from the classroom touch panel, will automatically enable the camera and mics, initiate the recording, open up the Zoom meeting for remote students and stop at the scheduled time.

• Students will be provided with the Zoom meeting link through Canvas. 

• Powerpoint slides can be shared through Zoom (as well as through the classroom projector). 

• Faculty can monitor Zoom participants through either the Crestron control panel or through Zoom on their laptop.

The entire class engages in ongoing dialog. Seats are arranged in circle/concentric circle formation with a 360 camera/mic in the center. Faculty are decentralized in the room and sit in a designated spot amongst the students.

Faculty can lecture in this model as the camera and mic in the center of the room will be able to pick up their video and audio.

This model is designed to facilitate classes that are mostly discussion based.

The classroom is designed in a u-shape, circle, or square configuration with a Meeting Owl, an all-in-one 360-degree camera, mic, and speaker installed in the center of the configuration with four external monitors at its base, directed in all four directions of the classroom.

• The classroom will be outfitted with a modified Crestron Zoom Room kit.
  

• The Meeting Owl will capture the faculty and students. 

• In class students are provided a view of the remote students with monitors placed in the center of the classroom.

• A faculty laptop is not needed to control the Zoom meeting, though is needed if the faculty member has powerpoint slides or other content to share.
  

• The Zoom meeting can be easily started manually from the classroom touch panel, will automatically enable the camera and mics, initiate the recording, open up the Zoom meeting for remote students and stop at the scheduled time.

• Students will be provided with the Zoom meeting link through Canvas. 

• Faculty can monitor Zoom participants through the room's external monitors and the room's Zoom Room touch panel.

• Zoom Room Overview Video