Extron AV Solutions Enhance Nursing School Learning at Lee University

The nursing school classroom, with capacity for 120 students, has renewed its AV facilities. Extron has provided the AV switching and distribution equipment, control y streaming.

To meet the challenges of COVID19 and support distance learning, AV solutions from Extron to make streaming capabilities compatible with the audiovisual system in the spacious classroom of the School of Nursing of the Lee University.

Lee University is a private Christian educational institution located in Cleveland. (Tennessee). It was founded in 1918 with twelve students and one teacher by the name of Church of God Bible Training School. Today it is a university attended by more than 5.200 students and where some work 350 instructors. Offers 57 specialties, 159 undergraduate programs and 56 university programs in Business, Arts and Sciences, Education, Music, Religion and Nursing.

In 2016, The nursing school built a spacious university classroom with a high ceiling and desks with staggered seating for more than 120 students. This was equipped with audiovisual services appropriate for such a large space and to respond to the challenges of COVID19 and support distance learning., enhanced with AV streaming capabilities.

The facility hosted large meetings for conferences on topics covering nursing procedures, biology and biological sciences.

The design and installation of the AV system was a joint effort between the information technology laboratory manager at Lee University, Mark Long, and professional AV integration firm Encore Broadcast Solutions.

The Encore team was led by Glenn Bradley, sales manager for the Bridgeport office in Alabama. Extron provided the AV switching and distribution equipment, control and streaming for the project.

In the front part of the room there is a projection screen of 275 inches, flanked by two 65" flat screen displays″.

On the rear wall are two flat screen reference monitors of 65 inches. Presenters and audience members use handheld wireless RF microphones. AV system components are housed on the presenter's podium and operator's desk.

Teachers can upload presentation material to the AV operator's desktop computer or bring a laptop with the material.

In a cable access box Cable Cubby 202, located on the AV operator's desk, Connections for power cables are available, HDMI, DisplayPort y USB-C, and on the podium there is a touch screen TouchLink Pro TLP Pro 320C in Cable Cubby.

A document camera, located on the podium allows printed materials to be displayed. Teachers can annotate their presentations by tapping, writing and drawing on touch screen. This connects to an annotation processor Annotator 300, located on the AV operator's desk, through transmitters and receivers USB Extender Plus.

The equipment that forms the backbone of the university classroom AV system is located on the AV operator's desk.

The main component is a matrix switcher with scaler for DTP presentations CrossPoint 84 4K. Performs AV signal switching and video scaling to deliver video content to all five displays in the room.

Available AV content sources include the operator's desktop computer, a laptop on the podium, el Annotator 300, PTZ cameras on front and rear wall, and analog audio from the operator's desk mixer.

AV content is selected using a touch screen TouchLink Pro TLP Pro 1022T of 10 inches located on the operator's desk, or the 3.5 folding touch screen″ TLP Pro 320C del podio.

The two touch screens work with the control processor integrated in the DTP matrix switcher to control all system functions.

Audio and video options

The speakers in the room are powered by the amplifier. 100 W integrated into the matrix. Multiple wireless microphones are available for the instructor(es) and for student participation.

Most instructors prefer the hanging microphone VoiceLift Pro when presenting because it is very easy to use. It turns on automatically when you lift it from the charging station..

Content is displayed on the main projection screen and both flat screen display devices. The video projector connects directly from the matrix switcher to the HDBaseT input on the projector.

Flat panel displays receive HDMI over shielded twisted pair cable through a DA4 4K DTP HD distribution amplifier and 4K HDMI DTP receivers 230 Rx.

Capture and streaming

AV content can also be routed to the SMP streaming media processor 351 for recording and streaming live or on demand for distance students.

Streamed content is delivered via a hardware codec or unified communications platform, like Zoom or Teams.

El Middle School 351 It is equipped with a CPR remote control panel 101 EU on the operator's desk, providing home buttons, stop, pause and mark.

This panel includes a USB port into which users can insert a memory card to 'capture and take' classes..

Instructors also appreciate that they can initiate, stop and pause SMP class capture 351, by pressing a button on your VoiceLift Pro pendant microphone.

The university classroom reopened its doors to students and faculty in the spring of 2021. They are popular facilities, always in high demand.

The manager of the information technology laboratory at Lee University, Mr. Mark, informs us that the classroom AV systems are working without any problems. Mark mentions that, with his experience in programming and coding, is totally impressed with the way Extron's Global Configurator Pro and GUI Designer software tools, just drag and drop, have contributed to the configuration of the AV control system being so direct.

“Extron controller configuration tools are easy to understand. They allow you to work directly. For this installation, I created the logical control flow and hierarchy of the UI screen, and Encore performed the configuration and creation of the GUI using Extron tools”.