AV - WSB - 1100 Morgridge Auditorium
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 AV touch panel that controls the listed 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.
When the system is off, the touch panel will display a "Press Here to Begin" screen that states your room number. We do not use any passcodes or keys. When you touch the "Press 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.
Input Selection 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 screen asking you to select a presentation source. When an input is selected, it will be highlighted:
Audio Page:
On the Audio page of the controls, you'll find controls for the in room microphone systems volume level. You can raise and lower the level, or mute it entirely:
Cameras Page:
But default, the camera (or cameras depending on the room) 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.
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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. |
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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. |
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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. |
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The Camera Home Button takes the rear camera back to its home position, when Auto Tracking is not turned on. |
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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. |
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If the room has multiple cameras, 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. Before using the recording page, navigate to Kaltura https://mediaspace.wisc.edu and sign in with your UW NetID by clicking the profile icon where it says "Guest" in the top right corner and selecting Login. Once you've logged in for the first time, you can use the in-room recording page on the AV system.
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.
Turning off the AV system:
Once you've finished using the AV system, simply tap the "Shut Down" button in the bottom left corner of the AV control panel. You'll be prompted to confirm your decision to shut down the AV system. Once you've done so the system will shut down over the course of about 15-20 seconds.
