Hill Theater Smartroom Instructions

Hill Theater Smartroom Operation

Disclaimer

This article is written to be correct and complete.  However, there might be unintended mistakes or omissions that may not work for every situation and on varying technology platforms.  Make sure that you have backups.

 

Title:

Hill Theater Tier 1 room operation

Revision:

V.1

Prepared By:

Matt Haack

Effective Date:

12/9/2020

1.0      Keywords

Tier 1, Hill Theater, Zoom

2.0      Description

Instructions for the use of the Hill Theatre Tier 1 technologies.

3.0      Steps to Follow

1.     Lighting instructions-  just inside the door on the back wall there will be a light switch that turns the lights on to the theater.  Press the top button.

2.     Walk down the stairs on the right side of the seating and walk to the back room.  Locate a light box with a switch through the door and turn switch on.

3.     Locate the next light switch control panel along the same wall as the lights. It will look like this. (see pic)

4.     Press the top left button (Preset 1)

This will activate all the other lights needed.

Using the Podium-

5.     Touch Crestron panel to power on.

 

6.     This will activate the panel and show all available options for the room.

7.     Press the down arrow on the panel to lower the projector screen.

 

8.     Turn on projector power

 

 

9.     Select “computer” as the the display source

 


 

10.  Login to PC with your starid credentials

11.  Open the Document Camera App:

                                     

The document camera will be used to project text, white paper or Transparency.

            The Doc Cam Application also has Whiteboard and Annotation features.

  Open up any documents that you will be presenting during your class:

            Powerpoint

            Videos

            D2L

12.   Turn on your Zoom session to get your remote students online.

           

 

13.  Sign in with your starid credentials

14.  Click run to setup Zoom if needed

15.  Choose “join with computer audio”

 

 

 

 

16.  Make sure that the audio for the zoom meeting is set to the HoverCam Solo8 option:

  

Students should be joining.  When a student joins, make sure that they are muting their microphones and know where that option is:

            Bottom left corner

           

Students can join into the Zoom meetings while in class.  If they do, they need to mute both microphone and computer audioHeadphones are not recommended, as all audio that they will hear will come from the classroom speakers.

                 

17.  Use the “Share Screen” option to display the document camera:

                     

You can use the web camera to show a small portion of the whiteboard/classroom.

You can either pivot the monitor to view part of the board or rotate the camera to view the classroom.

Webcam options-

 

·       Meetup camera is for viewing and hearing audience

·       Webcam captures presenter view

·       HoverCam Solo8+ is the document camera

Microphone options-

***Speakers must be set to one of these options or outgoing audio is poor quality.

 

18.  When meeting is over choose leave meeting

19.  Logout of PC

20.  From the Crestron panel choose class is over

21.  Yes, shutdown