University of Tennessee, Knoxville: Cynap Systems in the Classroom
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University of Tennessee, Knoxville: Cynap systems in the classroom
University of Tennessee, Knoxville, USA
ounded in 1794, instructional faculty. A placing this versatile, features and functio- The University of longtime WolfVision Vi- multi-functional AV ap- nality. When planning F Tennessee, Knox- sualizer customer, UT pliance at the center of to upgade the existing ville, is a public research Knoxville was one of the its classroom presentati- presentation technology university located in first universities world- on technology systems. in its classrooms, a key Knoxville Tennessee. It wide to begin testing Cynap was chosen be- requirement for UT, was is the flagship campus of early versions of the cause of its comprehen- that instructors should the University of Tennes- Cynap wireless presen- sive feature set, perfor- be able to move away see system, and its 910 tation and collaboration mance and reliability, from the classroom lec- acre site contains 294 system. Following suc- plus its upgradability via tern during teaching buildings, providing faci- cessful trials and pilot firmware updates that sessions, in order to im- lities for around 29,000 installations, the univer- help to keep the sys- prove enagement, and students, together with sity campus has now tem up-to-date, often also to help maintain the almost 1,600 full-time standardised on Cynap, introducing additional attention of student au-
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diences. The university In most of the rooms, can choose to use the playing content quickly also wanted to raise the the Cynap system is in- older existing technolo- and easily on-screen overall levels of teaching stalled together with a gy until they familiarise (they can also use a technology available in touchscreen monitor, themselves with the new HDMI or USB cabled the rooms for both staff and an AMX control pa- system. Increasing num- connection if they wish). and students, providing nel to provide maximum bers of staff now select Screen mirroring enab- a consistent user expe- flexibility in the class- the Cynap system using les users to move away rience across all learning room. Retaining the ori- the control panel, and from the lectern, and spaces. This was an im- ginal AMX control panel are able to switch easily engage actively with portant consideration has enabled smooth between different sour- students. Alternatively, because instructors are transitioning for teaching ce materials using the in Moderator Mode, an often required to teach staff between the old touchscreen monitor. instructor can use the in a variety of different and the new technolo- The Cynap system ena- touchscreen at the lec- rooms, assigned to them gy. Instructors can use bles instructors to mirror tern to decide which stu- via the centralised room Cynap for all their pre- their laptop, smartphone dents are able to mirror scheduling system. sentation needs, or they or tablet to Cynap, dis- their content wirelessly
View from the lectern equipped with Cynap, touchscreen controller, AMX control panel and WolfVision Visualizer.
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onto the classroom dis- designed to hold 25-30 the Cynap systems are group. Michael Berger. play. Before the Cynap students, in a variety proving to be very ef- IT Manager, Office of installations, there were of both active learning, fective in larger lecture Information Technolo- no PCs installed on the modern, and traditional theatres, where inst- gy said: “What we have classroom lecterns, teaching layouts. There ructors are now mobile, found, is that regardless and the Cynap systems are also a number of lar- and able to present from of the size of the lear- now enable instructors ge lecture theatres that anywhere in the room. ning space the Cynap to either bring content can accommodate more Even in the largest au- systems allow the stu- materials on their own than 600 students at a ditoriums, teaching dent to become a real devices, or to use a time, and the university staff are able to go out part of the class, not just Cynap to easily access wanted a presentation among the audience a passive viewer”. their digital teaching and collaboration solu- and actively involve the The Cynap systems pro- materials via Office 365 tion that would also be students - for example, vide the flexibility to pre- or other cloud services suitable for these larger it’s very easy to pass a sent a wide range of mul- such as Google Drive, learning spaces. UT has tablet to a student and ti-source digital content Dropbox etc. Typically, found that in addition to invite them to share their material on-screen, but classrooms at UT are small classroom usage, ideas on-screen with the also provide the added
Cynap systems are also installed in traditional style classrooms providing a consistent user experience for instructors whatever the classroom layout.
University of Tennessee, Knoxville, USA: www.wolfvision.com www.utk.edu/ www.utk.edu/ University ofTennessee, Knoxville,USA: Cynap provides flexibilitytomoveaway from and teachfrom thelectern anywhere inthe room. want to teach, without exactly thewaythatthey enables them to teach message across, andit options for getting their gives lecturers flexible screen content.“Cynap to annotateoveranyon- browser, plus the ability benefits ofabuilt-inweb additional rooms willbe ge oftheCynaprollout, spaces. Inthenextsta- classrooms andlearning 10 CynapCore unitsin Cynap systems,plus currently installed141 Michael Berger. UThas room technology”said being limitedbythein- the matrix switchers and the classroom, someof as the centerpiece of Cynapching tasks.With taking care ofallswit- trol panel,withCynap and a touchscreen con- VGA and HDMI inputs, screen, aCynapwith fitted witha75”touch-
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