Other Room Features • Whiteboards (front & hallway walls) • Light switches by door & lectern • Phone (wall-mounted behind lectern)
No Optical Drive on Mac
Please Note: This room's Mac does NOT have a DVD drive. Need to access files saved on a DVD from the computer? You can arrange for use of a portable optical drive by contacting the ITS Help Desk at ext. 8340.
Staff can also provide assistance outside of class time with moving files off a disc to D2L, Google Drive, etc. so you can access the files without needing to use a portable optical drive.
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OM 104 seats 16 students.
OM 104 is equipped with two chalkboards.
Lighting controls are located next to the door.
Additional lighting controls, along with a phone, are located on the wall behind the lectern.
Powering Up the Equipment The equipment is controlled from the lectern using a Extron Control Panel Interface.
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Instructor's lectern
Extron Hard-Button Control Panel
Press the On button on the Extron. After pressing ON, the button will blink red for 30 seconds while the projector turns on and warms up. Wait until the On button turns white before selecting the desired source button on the Extron. The switcher will not receive the command to switch until after it has finished warming up.
The resident computer and document camera are powered on using the appropriate button located on each device.
Projector Standby (PIC-MUTE) Press the MUTE button on the Extron once to place the projector in standby mode. Simply press the button again to take the projector out of standby.
Volume The adjustment of volume is done using the Volume knob located in the lower-left corner of the Extron.
NOTE: Computers have their own volume controls which may need to be adjusted separately.
Resident Computer @ Lectern Press the POWER button on the resident computer to turn it on.OM 104 is equipped with a rack-mounted Mac Mini. A USB port is located next to the Extron Panel. An additional USB port is found next to the computer's power button.
Once the computer has been powered up, press the PC button on the Extron to display the computer.
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The computer is located in the rack
Document Camera (Epson) The Doc Cam's power and lights must be turned on manually using the controls located on the camera itself. Click here for more information regarding the document camera found in this classroom.
Once the camera's power is on, press the DOC CAM button on the Extron to display on the projector and monitor.
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Connecting a Laptop The HDMI cable needed for connecting a laptop computer is found on the instructor's podium. The HDMI connection caries both video and audio. For more information see Selecting HDMI Audio Output.
Using the HDMI cable
1. Plug the HDMI cable into your laptop's HDMI port.
2. Plug the Ethernet cable into your laptop's network jack (if needed).