The University of New Hampshire debuts hybrid classrooms with Shure

The installed solution of Shure is based on the MXA910 ceiling microphone, the Dante network protocol, the P300-IMX processor and its Microflex wireless microphone system.

Founded in 1866 in the United States, the University of New Hampshire (in the United States) has dozens of academic departments, interdisciplinary institutes and schools and research centers. Its three main campuses are Durham, which houses more than 15.000 students; Concord, where the Franklin Pierce School of Law is located, y Manchester, with more than 1.000 students.

In order to remain a cutting-edge academic and technological institution, AV technology upgrade has been completed, which began largely as a result of the pandemic, to offer a hybrid training format. The project was started to 73 classrooms and the number has now increased to about two hundred.

Led by the team called Learning space technology services, This project was as ambitious as it was complex., as its director points out, Marshall White: “We had previously renovated the AV facilities at the Paul College of Business and Economics with a solution that included the ceiling array microphone MXA910 of Shure, and everything had gone very well. Our challenge was to do the same, but much faster and on a much larger scale”.

Shure technicians and the university team gathered for a demonstration of the MXA910 ceiling array microphone, the result of which is that it performed above their expectations, after which the updating of the classrooms began, that have integrated the specialists Red Thread Spaces y CCS New England.

As White explains, “although the team intended to replicate the same solution for each classroom, They found different constructions in each one, that had to be considered individually. Thanks to the modifications made with the software Shure Designer, a solution was found for each space, despite concerns about the acoustics and reflectivity of each room”.

Although classroom configurations varied, the main products remained the same: the MXA910 ceiling microphone, digital audio network protocol Dante de Shure, the processor P300-IMX and wireless microphone system Microflex (MXW) from this manufacturer for the largest rooms.

Shure solution for the University of New Hampshire ensures students can attend classes in person or remotely, while providing faculty with the flexibility to deliver lectures from home.

Teachers have little or no interaction with technology, which means that ease of use is a substantial advantage. Teachers simply plug a USB into their computer and select a collaboration platform, whether Zoom or others commonly used on campus. Cameras follow teachers around the room, while Shure ceiling microphones pick up audio in impeccable quality.