These instructions are pertinent for the following rooms in Grainger Hall:
3190 and 3560

Grainger Hall's classroom AV setup is visually very different from the AV setups in other buildings around campus. The system is meant to be as simple as possible to make the user's experience more effective and reliable.

The following is detailed information on the use of the touch panel that controls the classrooms AV systems. This panel sits on top of the podium in each of the rooms listed above and allows you to switch video inputs for the projection system, and adjust the volume levels of the sound systems. These rooms are also equipped with ceiling microphones, as well as a back of room auto tracking camera, and a front of room static camera that can be used for web-conferencing calls, and lecture capture.

When the system is off, the touch panel will display a "Touch Here to Begin" screen. We do not use any passcodes or keys. When you touch the "Touch Here to Begin" button the system will begin to turn on, and after the warm up period of 10 to 20 seconds, you will be ready to make an input selection.

This touch panel uses a page based system for its controls. By default, you will land on the Presentation Page where all of your input selection and playback volume control lives. There are additional pages for projection screen control, web-conferencing and lecture capture audio control, camera control, and recording/lecture capture. 

Important Note: The rooms cameras, and ceiling microphones can only be used either through the in-room podium computer, or through a laptop physically connected to the USB-C cable coming out of the podium. The wireless connection, or the HDMI cable connection do not support the cameras and ceiling microphones. 

Presentation Page:

Once you have turned the system on by tapping the "Press Here to Begin" button, and the system has warmed up, you will see this input selection screen:

Inputs

At this point, you have the capability to project video and audio information from a selection of devices. These include:

	The Laptop source button allows you to connect a laptop or other mobile device to the AV system via an HDMI or USB-C connection. Simply plug the cable into your device, and select the Laptop button.
	The Podium PC is a computer that is permanently in the room. Its monitor is on the podium, and you'll find a keyboard and mouse in the pullout tray. You can sign into the Podium Computer either with your Grainger Credentials if you have them, or with your NetID@wisc.edu for the username, and your NetID password.
	The Document Camera allows a user to project non-digital content onto the projector screen. Lift the Document Camera to turn it on, then select this button to project it. This device does not share any kind of audio.
	The Wireless connection option allows you to connect a laptop or another mobile device to the AV system to project video and audio without a physical connection. These rooms use a system called Wolfvision Cynap, these are universal, so an application is not required on MacOS or Windows to use them. Simply press the Wireless button on the touch panel and directions for using it will be displayed on the projection screen.

At the bottom of the input selections, there is a "Video Mute" button. This button will temporarily blank the video feed that is going to the projection system. Press it once to activate it, and then press it again to turn it off once you're ready to display your content again. 

Presentation Volume

Along the bottom of the AV touch panel, you will see your volume controls. This will allow you to raise or lower the audio volume coming from your selected input. To increase the volume, press the volume up button on the right side. To decrease the volume, press the volume down button on the left side. The audio mute button is just to the left of the volume down button. 

Screen Page:

The Screen page is very simple. It just has two buttons, one to raise the screen, and one to lower the screen. Note, neither of these buttons will mute the video from the projector, so if you want to bring the screen up to do something on the whiteboard behind it, you'll need to also go to the Presentation page, and press the Video Mute button. 

Audio Page:

On the Audio page, you can control the volume of remote participants. Simply tap the volume up or down buttons to adjust. This will not adjust the audio levels of the presentation audio. If you were playing music, or something else with audio from your podium computer or laptop, these volume controls will not effect that volume level. Only the volume controls on the presentation page will affect that audio. 

The mute button will allow you to mute all incoming audio. If you don't need to hear remote participants and they're just listening in, or if they're making a bit too much background noise and don't realize, you can press the mute button to the left of the volume controls and they will be entirely muted. Again, this does not affect presentation audio. 

And finally, Mute Outgoing Audio will mute the microphones in the room specifically for web-conferencing. If you press the Mute Outgoing Audio button, no remote participants will be able to hear you until you press it again. 

Cameras Page:

But default, the cameras will be in Privacy Mode. They are not always active and need to be manually enabled when used. 

The screenshot above is displaying the Camera page when Privacy Mode is enabled, and when the Auto Tracking is off. Let's go through all of these buttons, because there are quite a few. 

	The Privacy Mode button, briefly discussed above, allows you to put your camera system in and out of a privacy mode, that fills the camera feed with a notice that the camera is in privacy mode. This is enabled by default on system start up, and needs to be toggled off to use the cameras. It can also be used during web-conferences or recordings if you'd prefer to hide the camera temporarily.
	The Zoom In and Zoom Out buttons live on the right side of the camera page. When Auto Tracking is off, these buttons appear. You can use them to Zoom In or Out the rear and front cameras.
	The Arrow Buttons are on the left, right, buttom, and top of the camera page when Auto Tracking is turned off. These can be used on only the rear camera, to control where it is pointing if you do not want to use Auto Tracking. The front camera is not a true PTZ camera, and so it cannot be moved with these buttons. It is a static shot from the front of the room.
	The Camera Home Button takes the rear camera back to its home position, when Auto Tracking is not turned on.
	The Auto Tracking button toggles on and off the camera systems auto tracking feature. When turned on the rear camera will follow the presenter around the front of the room. Additionally, based on audio tracking, if an audience member speaks up, the camera system will switch to the front camera to try and get a shot of them. And will switch back after a few seconds, or after the presenter begins speaking again.
	The Front Camera and Rear Camera buttons allow you to switch between which camera is being used by the Podium Computer or laptop connected via the USB-C cable, and which camera is previewed on the Cameras page, when Auto Tracking is disabled.

There is of course also the "Close Page" button in the bottom right corner, to get you back out of the camera menu. 

Recording Page:

The Recording page is where controls for Lecture Capture are. Our Lecture Capture system uses Kaltura, a campus approved video recording/hosting solution. To use the recording page, tap the NetID entry space and an on screen keyboard will appear. Type in your NetID@wisc.edu and confirm it. Now, choose which recording layout you want.

• Camera only will just be a camera shot (based on whatever the Camera settings are on the Cameras page).
• Camera Content will recording the selected presentation source on the Presentation page as the main content, and will put a camera shot in the bottom right corner.
• Content Only will ignore the cameras, and just record the selected presentation source. 

And then at the very bottom you have the recording controls themselves. This will be set to Stop by default. Once you've filled out the NetID field and selected your desired layout, you can press the record button to being the lecture capture. If you want to pause the recording, say for a lunch break, or because you're preparing the next thing and it may take a few minutes, press the pause button. Otherwise, once you are done with your presentation, press the Stop button to end your recording. If you do not press the stop button, or shut down the AV system, the recording will continue. 

Web-Conferencing:

On the podium computer, or a laptop connected via USB-C, open up your desired web-conferencing application. Once you've got into your meeting, double check your Audio and Video settings and make sure you're using the in room camera and microphones. If these things are correct, you're good to go!

Turning off the AV system:

When you are finished using the room, please turn off the AV system with the Shut Down button in the bottom left corner of the AV control panel.