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Higher Education

Today’s students want to be challenged, engaged, and transformed by their courses of study. Robust educational technology in the classroom has proven to increase student interaction and performance. Highlight your commitment to students’ education by investing in their audiovisual experience.

Learning Spaces

Learning spaces are the bread and butter of higher education deployments. They must be flexible enough to meet the changing needs of the students, robust enough so they remain ready for business, and easy enough to operate so new instructors don’t have to fumble with technology.

Highlights

Effective and transparent presentation tools for students

Intuitive user interface to support new users each semester

Ensure local students can see, hear, and be comfortable for long classes

Provide support for one-way broadcast & recording for LMS

Report data regarding room utilization and technology health

Enable quick access to quick-reference materials and helpdesk services.

System health monitoring, proactive support, and white-glove Managed Support Services.

Meeting Spaces

Classrooms

These small instruction spaces are the most common room type. Their primary objective is to bolster student engagement without getting in the way of the learning experience, all at an affordable price.

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Headcount
6-50 in-room participants with 6-50 remote participants
Arrangement
Students facing the instructor and display
Display
Focal point of room, may need to share space/surface with whiteboard for instructor notes
Audio
Room acoustics and intelligibility standards must be adopted
Media
Largely presentation material from an instructor computer
Time
Scheduled 45-90 minutes classes
Help
Monitored and proactively supported, with in-room user help point for instructors

Lecture Halls

These larger specialty spaces are purpose-build for larger class sizes and/or guest speakers. Due to the large seating capacity, care must be taken to ensure equal audio & video performance throughout the entire space.

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Headcount
100-500 in-room participants with 100-500 remote participants
Arrangement
Audience facing elevated stage area for easy viewing
Display
Focal point of room, large enough to easily be seen by all and support special events
Audio
More selective audio solutions must be considered for larger rooms than typical classrooms
Media
Presentation materials, but with an emphasis on audio and cameras for effective streaming/recording
Time
Scheduled 45-90 minutes classes
Help
Monitored and proactively supported, with in-room user help point for instructors, but may also be operator-led

Learning Labs

These unique and interactive spaces provide an active learning environment for students, improving engagement and retention. However, they also come with a level of technological complexity that must be carefully considered.

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Headcount
6-25 in-room students with adequate workspace
Arrangement
Instructor-facing, but also with the flexibility for breakout sessions and/or lab work
Display
Focal point of room, but may also have additional smaller displays for breakout groups
Audio
Simple speech reinforcement solution is required for instructor, but face-to-face breakout sessions are the focus
Media
Presentation materials, activity equipment to capture
Work-Stream
Small group instruction with breakout abilities
Time
Scheduled 45-90 minutes classes
Help
Monitored and proactively supported, with in-room user help point for instructors

Meeting Rooms

The success of any educational organization relies on the effective collaboration of its faculty, staff and students. Meeting rooms offer the ideal environment for collaboration, and lucky for you they are our specialty. Let us help you create and maintain the perfect collaborative experience for your teams.

Highlights

Enable faculty and staff members gather both locally and remotely.

Intuitive UI to support new users each semester

Ensure local and remote participants can see and hear, as well as be seen and heard themselves

Report data regarding room utilization and technology health.

Enable quick access to quick-reference materials and helpdesk services

System health monitoring, proactive support, and white-glove Managed Support Services.

Meeting Spaces

Conference Rooms

As the most common type of meeting spaces, conference rooms should focus on creating an easy-to-use, effective environment for local and remote participants without breaking the bank.

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Headcount
4-10 in-room students, faculty, and/or staff with 4+ remote participants
Arrangement
Immersive open table arrangement enabling excellent display visibility while still promoting in-room discussions
Display
1-2 front-wall displays for a mix of content and remote participant video streams
Camera View
Front-wall camera with intelligent framing of in-room participants
Media
Focus on shared content and video
Work-Stream
Encourages serial work over parallel work
Time
Scheduled 30-120 minute meetings
Help
Monitored and proactively supported, with in-room user help point.

Huddle Rooms

This modern type of meeting space enables quick collaboration for smaller groups without wasting the resources of larger meeting rooms.

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Headcount
2-10 in-room participants with limited remote participants
Arrangement
2-10 in-room participants with limited remote participants
Display
Optional end-of-table / front-wall display for remote participant video feeds or content
Camera View
Center-table camera with panoramic view of local participants
Media
Focus on conversation over shared content
Work-Stream
Encourage quick updates and scrum-like sessions
Time
Scheduled or unscheduled 5-30 minute meetings
Help
Monitored and proactively supported, with in-room user help point.

Boardrooms

Executive spaces for some of the most important conversations in the institution. These rooms should be luxurious and impressive to behold, providing an exceptional AV experience for your trustees and executive leadership.

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Headcount
8-20 in-room participants with 1+ remote participants
Arrangement
Columnar or "u" shape arrangement enabling strong local headcount
Display
Large front-wall display with on-table or side-wall reinforcement content displays
Camera View
Multiple on-table or side-wall cameras with audio-triggered presets for perfectly framing the currently active seat
Media
Focus on shared content and seamless conversation
Work-Stream
Geared for an executive experience, comfort and reliability are crucial to success
Time
Scheduled 1 hour to all-day meetings
Help
Monitored, proactively supported, with white-glove standby service and in-room user help point

Specialty Spaces

Higher Education specialty spaces are often high visibility, high value, high risk systems that support graduations, theatrical productions, and sporting events. With so much on the line, don’t leave success up to chance: find an AV partner with a documented quality management system and a track record of excellence.

Highlights

Reliable performance is required for these high visibility systems on campus

Often a major revenue generator for the university or college

Flexible user interface for the operators to support fluid requests from users

Easy integration to existing LMS and event support

Report data regarding room utilization and technology health

Provide tiered support SLA to maintain system uptime

System health monitoring, proactive support, and white-glove Managed Support Services.

Meeting Spaces

Auditoriums

Auditoriums support some of the most valuable classes and events hosted by the university. These are large spaces where AV performance is critical. Deployment with a mature quality management system and meaningful performance specifications are crucial to the room’s success.

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Head Counts
100-500 in-room participants with limited remote participants
Display
Focal point of room, large enough to easily be seen by all and support special events
Audio
An intelligible, evenly distributed audio system is a must. It’s in the name!
Media
Presentation materials, but with an emphasis on audio and cameras for effective streaming/recording
Work-Stream
Large group instruction and special events with guest speakers, recording and streaming are likely
Time
Scheduled 60-120 minutes events
Help
Monitored and proactively supported, most events may be operator-led with white-glove service

Theaters

This is where the magic happens. Elevate your productions and better prepare the artists of tomorrow by integrating modern production technologies into your theatre space. No matter what your budget is, we can create a solution for you.

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Head Counts
50-200 in-room audience members
Arrangement
Flexible seating arrangements for varying production types.
Display
Large format projection systems can be implemented for high visual impact
Audio
Natural-sounding audio systems are a must to transparently support the talent on stage
Media
Advanced and programmable playback systems are central to any modern production, and offer great training to technical theatre students.
Time
Scheduled 60-120 minutes events
Help
Monitored and proactively supported, events will be operator-led with white-glove service

Athletic Centers

Sporting events are a core component of the student and community experience. Amplify that experience though best-in-class sound systems, video walls, and more. Highlight your athletes, engage your community, and create memories for years to come.

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Head Counts
3,000 – 50,000 visitors
Display
Scoreboards and video walls to show scores/results that can be viewed in direct sunlight
Audio
Audio management and performance are critical to fans being able to understand what is happening on the field.
Equipment
Mainly audio focused, but having an effective digital signage management system can improve the experience and profitability of the space
Time
Scheduled 2-8 hour events
Help
Monitored and proactively supported, systems will require a trained support staff

Studios

Studios are becoming more common at universities and colleges. Students use them to submit their work in a professional manner or practice their presentation for upcoming events.

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Head Counts
1-4 talent, 2-4 operators
Space Consideration
Acoustically treated space with proper lighting are even more important than the AV equipment
Display
Teleprompters and/or remote participants become important to interact with the on-air talent
Audio
Professional microphones and recording technology are required to produce quality recordings/streams
Camera View
Intimate camera shots and/or flexible connectivity are required to capture the nuances of the subject matter
Equipment
Professional cameras and microphones are required to differentiate the space from beginner vloggers, and recording media should be carefully considered
Help
Monitored and proactively supported, systems will require a trained support staff

Portable Systems

Not every event type for higher education can have a dedicated space. Sometimes the quadrangle needs to be transformed into a graduation event space. It may make sense for the university or college to invest in effective portable systems, ranging from simple public address systems to immersive concert setups.

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Head Counts
100 – 25,000
Equipment
A trusted designer is required to make sure the equipment will be easy to setup, unconditionally support the event, and be storage-friendly
Display
Displays must be large enough to provide excellent viewing to the intended area and rugged enough to maintain an ROI
Audio
Portable audio systems are much different than installed systems, and the solutions are not always intuitive especially when events happen outdoors
Streaming
Live-streaming events is now expected for all major events on campus.
Media
Hardware is important, but just as important is the platform services required to support students and families consume the event
Help
Monitored and proactively supported, systems will require a trained support staff

Digital Signage

An informed campus is a happy and safe campus. An effective and manageable digital signage strategy plays a huge role in maintaining this. Being able to communicate with your entire organization is crucial to higher education organizations. It adds to the experience. Whether it’s informing them of upcoming events, the forecast, the campus shuttle schedule, or even emergencies on campus, digital signage is quickly becoming a necessity.

Highlights

Includes video walls, digital signs, campus TV, room scheduling, and more

Provide emergency alerts and instructions to improve safety on campus

Focused on getting your message out to your student body quickly and consistently

Build engagement and cohesion

Require highly secure deployments as compromise can cause embarrassment or worse

Report data regarding solution statistics and engagement data

System health monitoring, proactive support, and white-glove Managed Support Services.

Meeting Spaces

Video Walls

Not only for the lobby, video walls can be used in internal faculty spaces for informational displays, dorm/campus messaging, and even sporting events or graduations.

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Technology
Any combination of traditional LCD or modern direct view LED walls, in any orientation or environment, paired with state-of-the-art media players
Security
Protect your school pride and reputation by securing signage content and players from outside tampering
Management
Centralized administration of all signage content with local customizations where appropriate
Help
Call, chat, or email support for content creators and sysadmins

Campus Messaging

Your faculty and students are everywhere on campus, so why isn’t your message? Get your content out there with powerful campus messaging and broadcast tools that put content on displays, in the web browser, and on mobile.

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Technology
Streaming technologies with web apps and signage players
Security
Encrypted media streams with role-based access control ensures your message only goes where it’s supposed to
Management
No more “sneaker net”. Take control of your messaging anywhere in the world from one web portal.
Help
Call, chat, or email support for content creators and sysadmins

Room Scheduling

Give your students and faculty total visibility into room usage. Utilize outside-of-the-room scheduling panels and LED indicators to broadcast room availability and reduce the barrier to finding study and huddle space on campus.

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Technology
Wall-mounted touch panels, LED indicators, mobile apps, and desktop clients, all integrated with corporate email/calendar platform
Security
Limit classroom scheduling permissions to ensure rooms are only booked by those with permission
Management
Centrally manage your scheduling solution from the cloud, and limit administration of scheduling hardware
Help
Call, chat, or email support for content creators and system admins

Managed Services

Student and instructor turnover at higher education institutions is significant. Just when the team finally starts to get the hang of using and maintaining the AV spaces, the semester ends and the cycle has to start all over again. Having an effective managed services partner can alleviate a lot of these headaches.

Highlights

Provide support to new faculty and students on the use of the system

Not all issues require boots on the ground, many can be managed remotely/automatically for less

Use your support staff more effectively and efficiently

Monitor room usage data to assure users’ needs are being met

Highly customizable services that fit your needs

Staffed by AV professionals

Bound by industry-leading service-level agreements

Meeting Spaces

Remote Helpdesk

When AV technology goes wrong, it typically comes with disruption, embarrassment, and ultimately some financial loss to the school. Let our team be your first line of defense. Users and AV/IT staff alike can contact our Helpdesk and get their issue resolved fast, so they can stop worrying about the technology, and focus instead on instructing students or improving campus life.

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Objective
Reduce and eliminate expensive classroom/event disruptions due to AV technology issues
Enablers
In-room scannable QR codes for quick access to help resources and support contacts, plus zero trust connectivity for remote troubleshooting…no VPN required!
Differentiators
Zero trust access, self-help resources, and amazing support engineers
Customizations
Modify SLAs, get connectivity audit reports, and implement claw-back policies 

Proactive Monitoring

Take the offensive against AV outages & conference room disruptions. Our proactive monitoring service constantly collects health metrics from your systems. In the event of an issue, the technical stakeholders for the system can be notified immediately, allowing them an opportunity to resolve the issue before users and the business at large are impacted.

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Objective
Reduce and eliminate expensive user disruptions due to AV technology issues
Enablers
Powerful and flexible IoT data service, integrated notification systems, and chainable actions for automatic remediation and logging
Differentiators
Manufacturer agnostic monitoring solution that works with any device, plus in-house monitoring driver development and onboarding
Customizations
Any device or system, customizable network topologies, pair with Helpdesk and other services, or use us to bring your AV devices into your IT standard monitoring platform   

Program Management

Take control of your AV deployment strategy with a single hand-to-shake. Our unique and powerful service provides ultimate visibility and accountability into the project deployment process for the university and enables you to reach even greater speed and quality benchmarks. The best part: no RFPs needed.

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Objective
Deploy at scale without sacrificing quality. Control costs without RFPs or low-bid scenarios. Build trust with your partners and empower your deployment no matter the size. 
Enablers
Clearly defined AV solution standards, rapid budgeting tools, easy and cost-effective procurement utilizing a cooperative state contract, powerful system documentation, and a global accountability network of amazing integrators
Differentiators
Proven success in global deployment strategy and AV reference architecture, great integrator partnerships at home in the Metro Phoenix area and abroad, and a foundation of quality through AQAV’s AV9000 standard
Customizations
Dedicated or pooled resources, consulting on internal AV program strategy & staffing, or provide only a subset of services where your organization needs them most

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