Audio Visual and
Classroom Technology Support
Computer and Networking
Services
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• Set up portable audio-visual equipment across campuses
• Create specifications for and install electronic classrooms
(“smart” classrooms)
• Install and maintain Open Area student computing labs
• Mount, configure, and program digital signage across
campuses
• Support the use of iClickers in the classroom
• Create and maintain the university’s streaming media
infrastructure
• Specify and support CCTV across campuses
• Provide multimedia and production services
AV Equipment Setup
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almost 32,000 work orders completed last year
nearly 3,000 trouble calls for AV help
$300,000 spent on ever-greening classroom AV equipment
New installs: Art Lab, 5 teaching environments within
Science, Human Ecology, 22 interactive whiteboards in
Education, a training assessment room in Kinesiology.
Bannatyne: spaces in MedRehab & Anatomy, Brodie Centre,
Basic Medical Sciences
• “smart” classrooms: the current 120 rooms at Fort Garry and
24 at Bannatyne will continue to be expanded upon
AV Design and Planning
• heavily involved with the electronic
components for the Active Living Centre
• Investor’s Field Stadium boardroom and
classroom spaces
• Tache Hall Arts Complex - new home for the
School of Music with classrooms and
teaching spaces for Music as well as the
School of Fine Arts
• CEOS theatre 5th floor Wallace
Open Area Computer Labs
• last fiscal year saw the replacement of
computers in Human Ecology, the UNIX lab
in 113 Machray Hall, 280 Brodie, 340
University Centre, 121 St. John’s College and
the creation of the “collaborative study”
enabled lab in 188 Extended Education
• this fiscal year we will be replacing over 90
computers in other buildings
Digital Signage
• installation of hardware and configuration of
software
• currently 1 free-standing kiosk for the Faculty of
Medicine and 2 digital boards for Anatomy and
the Dean of Medicine’s office, Dentistry,
University College, Dafoe Library also completed
this past year
• involved with the UofM’s digital signage initiative
• centralized server in place for serving digital
signage across campuses
iClicker and iClicker Bases
• over 15,000 iClickers have been sold at
the UofM campuses
• iClicker base stations are installed in all
major theatres on both campuses
• more will be installed as required
• “portable” base stations are also available
Streaming Media Services
• IST will be purchasing new encoding devices
to allow us to move away from REAL......
REALly........ and to allow adaptive streaming
• no longer restricted to RealMedia®. Goal is
to allow a widely-available, standards-based
playback solution which does not require
any special downloads
• aim is to provide excellent support for
mobile (and desktop) devices
CCTV
• Specify cameras used in the closed circuit security
system
• Work with Security Services and Physical Plant for
installation
• Past fiscal year: 5th floor Wallace, Frank Kennedy
tunnel, Dafoe library, Migizi Agimik
• Parking lot and intersection cameras coming due
to Investor’s Field activities