Are you satisfied with the current “Smart” classroom services and availability?
0. N/A
1.
2. There was supposed to be a huge expansion of smart classrooms because of a Danforth
grant several years ago but it has not happened.
3. NO
4. N/A
5. well, i just had to delay my class--then move them to another classroom--because the
VCR did not work. it had just been working the last time so i did not check it earlier
today. so, it was disruptive and we lost valuable time. IMC is right next door and
someone was nice enoguth to come over to try to help out--but to no avail. that same
classroom had problems with the sound on the monitor. but other needs in other classes
have been met
6. NO. There are not enough classrooms available for faculty needs and they are difficult
to use.
7. I don't use them
8. No. Routine scrubbing of the hard disks makes it hard to use specialized course
software (such as ShockWave or QuickTime to show movies that come with our
textbooks).
9.
10. Yes, but when it is down, especially in the large classrooms, it takes an entire class
period before a tech can respond to the problem on-site.
11. yes
12. Yes.
13. n/a
14. Yes to services...however, I don't think there are enough smart classrooms.
15. Mostly--I wish we had wireless mice so I could move away from the podium when
lecturing.
16. NO! There is no classroom assistance. No one from ITS ever comes to look at he
computers in the classrooms. The only people who do come to the classrooms are from
IMC when they are checking the equipment.
17. Power point is too limited. You can't show the slide to the class and have your notes
not show as well.
18. No. We need more of them, and smoother access.
19. No. There are too few available "smart" classrooms and levels 1 and 2 are not smart
enough. Trying to play audio for musical demoinstrations, for example, is a nightmare.
Also user ids and passwords are case-sensitive and seem to operate by rules that no one
makes clear.
20. Yes
21. NO
22. N/A
23. Yes
24. NA
25. yes
26. Yes.
27. No. Not one seminar room in Humanities is equipped as a "smart classroom," which
hurts graduate instruction in the Humanities. HU 142 is not equipped as a smart
classroom, which makes it difficult for guest speakers (that is the only large room for the
Humanities departments to use for public events).
28. No, insufficient personnel for maintaining equipment in Ritter 316.
29. There seem to be more smart classrooms every year, but never enough.
30. Yes, although many of the screens and projection devices need to be replaced
31. no
32. Yes!!!
33. yes
34.
35. yes
36. No, the quality of classrooms is poor; we might have a smart classroom but there will
often be an unpleasant and disturbing humming nose comming from... who knows
(heating system, ventilation...)
37. NOT AT ALL! We DO need more level 3 classrooms. All of my classes require a
level 3, and too often in the past I had to "settle down" for a level 2, which created a
number of problems regarding my teaching. We NEED more level 3.
38. yes.
39. I don't use them.
40. No. We need more smart classrooms. The one I teach in now consistently has
problems. I lecture in Carlo auditorium, using a power point program. But often when I
arrive, the system is not working and I have to "make do" even though the lecture is
planned for use of the powe point program.
41. Our department has computing needs beyond the smart classroom capability, which is
still in demonstration mode. We prefer to teach in active mode, and so provide the
students access to computers in class. We have access to an insufficient number of
computer classrooms to meet our current and future needs.
42. Yes. I wonder if sometime we might have a brief one hour workshop on how to use
them.
43. yes
44. No. There needs to be MANY more.
45. no. Some the classrooms have outdated equipment that is hard to interface with
laptop.
46. NA
47. yes
48. Yes
49. Yes and No. Yes, because I use a laptop in a classroom with a projection monitor
daily, and it is "OK." But "NO" with respect to the classrooms with console/control
stations. These are TERRIBLE. The interfaces are in no way intuitive. And the computers
embedded in these consoles are hard to work at best, and more generally bizarre to
operate. They fail capriciously; why is a (unknown) password required to restart them
when they fail? An the peculiar "touchscreens" should be banished.
50. yes
51. yes
52. I am retired and have not used them.
53. No What service you are on your own
54. The classrooms are woefully equipped and inadequate. There are very few "smart"
classrooms for a lot of language professors. Moreover, the equipment doesn't always
function. The VCRs in the classrooms are terrible, and a nightmare for language teachers:
-- the sound (one tiny overhead speaker) is tinny, and the students are basically forced to
read the subtitles; -- there is no "pause" button: one must press "stop," at which point the
TV automatically comes on. This is very distracting.
55. No. The equipment is there, but sometimes the sofware does not work properly or the
equipment itself lacks functionality. E.g.: It is difficult to connect a laptop to classroom
projectors because nobody has the the connection cables.
56. Yes.
57. I have no idea what &idquo means.
58. yes
59. no
60. yes
61.
62. N/A
63. Yes
64. Don't need 'em, don't use 'em.
65.
66. No
67. Yes--although more level 3s would be nice (and more classrooms like on the 3rd floor
of Tegeler with the flat screen monitors on the walls would be great.)
68. Dear God, no. They haven't upgraded much of anything since I got here, and I almost
never get a Level 3 classroom when I request it, leading to a lot of schlepping laptops
around campus and projection equipment back and forth from media closets. I don't
actually need *all* the L3 equipment -- and there must be a limited number of other
classes calling for a document camera or a microphone -- but I do need an integrated
Internet-connected computer, CD/DVD player, and VCR all hooked up to projection
equipment, which puts me well beyond Level Two. (We won't even get into how long it
took them to replace the stolen monitors last spring, or the fact that the seminar rooms in
Humanities aren't even Level One -- I know it's because they're not Registrar-assigned
classrooms, but I fail to see why our *grad* students don't need easy access to
multimedia equipment in their classes as well.)
69.
70.
71. Yes, but I don't feel I have enough teaching experience here yet to assess my need.
72. N/A
73. Yes. Enough with the smart classrooms already lets put some of that money into
hiring some technical support staff in order to assist faculty in making use of the smart
classrooms we have.
74. NO--to many inadequate classrooms in general. SLU needs more.
75. yes,
76. No. Normally the equipment is broken.
77. Overall , yes.
78. No. More Level-3 classrooms would be nice.
79. No. This is a serious problem. In my department faculty have prepared their course
with the use of electronic media, and then they cannot get a classroom. This creates much
frustation, We do not need more level three, but all classrooms at this point should at
least allow power point.
80. Yes
81. Last time I used it, the biggest problem was the smallness of the screen relative to the
size of the classroom space (for the classroom in Fusz).
82. Yes
83. Yes
84. Everything but the help line.
85. Pretty much, because I don't rely on them much.
86. no real complaints. computer was down one time which caused me problems for that
day
87. See question above
88. Yes.
89. They're ok. Network connection speeds in XH are fairly deplorable.
90. No--see above
91. No! The classes in which I teach rarely have the equipment I need. ITS should discuss
with instrcutors what we need and what would be best in our classrooms.
92. Yes
93. Most of the services are present and working, though more classrooms with
projection and CD/DVD would make it easier for everyone to get what they need at the
times days they need it.
94. Yes
95. yes