Teaching rooms
Information about facilities available in teaching rooms including:
Teaching room facilities
The Teaching Room Support Group provides a call out service for University staff requiring urgent help operating audio visual (AV) facilities in centrally timetabled rooms. Staff are located across the University so that they can respond quickly and minimise disruption to the teaching timetable.
Arrangements for the demonstration of AV facilities can also be made.
Standard equipment
Many centrally timetabled rooms are equipped with AV systems which include:
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a PC
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VCR/DVD player
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interactive whiteboard
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presentation audio system
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connections for a laptop and auxiliary video devices
A full list of the facilities and equipment in each room is available from the Timetabling office .
Additional equipment
If the room does not have the required facilities, portable equipment including digital audio recording kits, and audience response systems is available on request.
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requests are made with the equipment booking form
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confirmation of your booking will be sent via email within one working day
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there is a limited supply of kits so booking requests are dealt with on a strictly first come first served basis
* Please note that one full day's notice is required for all booking requests.
Developments
Commencing summer 2011, there are a few changes to the standard audio visual specification for teaching rooms. These include widescreen projection to complement the new video and computer formats, and the introduction of visualisers (document cameras) as standard provision. Modern looking lecterns now house the equipment to offer more flexibility, and systems are monitored remotely, enabling support staff to respond more quickly when assistance is needed. VCRs and OHPs will no longer be specified in new build or refurbished teaching rooms and existing units will no longer be supported once they fail. The main reasons for this are:
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The Optical Radiation Directive, which came into force in April 2010, says that workers should not come into contact with technology that requires them to look directly into a light source. The design of an OHP makes this very difficult to avoid. To help remove this risk, OHPs will be replaced with visualisers.
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With manufacturers discontinuing production, spare components are difficult to obtain and have become expensive. With advances in technology alternative electronic solutions are now available.
For the start of the academic year 2011/2012 all teaching room PCs will have the Windows 7 operating system installed, which will require users to login to gain access to applications. Please see http://www.nottingham.ac.uk/is/computer/windows7.aspx#windows7 for more details. Anyone requiring access to the PC who doesn’t have a UoN account will need to set up an associate account in advance. See http://www.nottingham.ac.uk/is/connect/associateitaccounts.aspx
Demonstrations of the new facilities can be arranged by contacting Teaching Room Support at http://www.nottingham.ac.uk/is/help/contact/teachingroomsupport.aspx
Interactive Teaching Rooms (ITR)
Interactive Teaching Rooms are classrooms that offer lecture capture and video conferencing.
Lecture capture records presentations, audio and images of the presenter, simultaneously. These lectures can then be published online so that students can study the lecture again, recapping particular points or filling in missing notes at their convenience, making it an ideal revision tool.
Instructions are available on how to use the lecture capture system (PDF 
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Video conferencing allows simultaneous teaching to local and remote audiences. With many schools teaching the same lecture and seminars to students in Ningbo and Malaysia, the ability to teach them simultaneously encourages student interaction and cuts down on the need for expensive and time consuming travel.
Teaching room support can provide technical support throughout a video conferencing call in an Interactive teaching room if required.
Locations
University Park:
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Sir Clive Granger Building - A48 Lecture Theatre
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Pope Building - C15 Lecture Theatre
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Mathematical Sciences Building - B60 Keighton Lecture Theatre
Jubilee Campus:
Sutton Bonington:
Medical School:
How to use the ITR service
The room and the facilities must be booked separately.
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Receive confirmation of your request via email. If you do not receive a confirmation email within 48 hours of booking, please email
ui-lecture-capture .
Please note: the three day notice period allows time to arrange test calls with the destination, particularly with time differences to the UK and allows us to resolve any problems that may arise.
Video Conferencing
Video conferencing suites enable you to communicate with similar, dedicated video conference systems including those at the Ningbo and Malaysian campuses.
Teaching room support can provide technical support throughout a video conferencing call, if required. For bookings between 9am-5pm Monday to Friday this service is free, but outside of these hours there is a charge for technical support.
Support
For support, or to arrange a system demonstration, please refer to the relevant Teaching room support group for the location of your booked room.
Support for conferences is arranged in conjunction with the University’s conference office.
Language Learning Support
The Language Learning Support Group provides a range of services for students and staff to support the teaching and learning of modern foreign languages.
These include
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Self Access Centre (SAC), for self study. This is open to all students and staff
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technical support for the language classrooms and recording facilities, also audio and video editing facilties for language projects
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training for staff in the use of language classrooms
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recording of material for use in teaching and creation of content for eLearning language projects
Self Access Centre (SAC)
The SAC is based in the Trent Building. The range of available resources are for reference only (not available for loan) and include:
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text books
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dictionaries
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CD-ROMs
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magazines
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news recordings
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satellite TV channels
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print, copy and scanning facility
Students and staff can register to use the Centre after a short induction session. These are held on Tuesdays and Thursdays at 1.30pm and Wednesdays at 2.30pm. You will need your student or staff card as a form of identification.
Opening Times
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Monday to Thursday
Friday
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9 am to 7 pm
9 am to 4:30 pm
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Vacation
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Monday to Thursday
Friday
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9 am to 5 pm
9 am to 4:30 pm
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Resources
Language resources are available for:
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Arabic
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Dutch
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French
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German
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Greek
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Italian
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Japanese
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Mandarin
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Polish
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Portuguese
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Russian
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Serbian
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Slovene
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Spanish
Other facilities
Other facilities are available for School of Modern Languages staff to use in classroom and online teaching. These include recording satellite news programmes and documentaries and recording of UK TV or radio broadcasts in accordance with the Educational Recording Agency licence.
Requests for recordings or duplicating of material should be made using the request form available from the SAC reception at least four days before the recording date or first use. You must verify that copyright requirements have been observed.
Further information is available from the Language Learning Support Group or the SAC reception, phone 0115 95 15863.