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We’ve identified a limitation to the Dual-Mode design when you are trying to play a video on the primary monitor, the audio is not audible to tour online participants in Collaborate. The workaround is that you need to switch from sharing ‘Source’ as a camera in Collaborate, to sharing your…
Access to reliable and appropriately equipped teaching facilities have been an ongoing concern for the teaching community, especially as we increase our in-person activities. Something as simple as a malfunctioning visualizer or not being able to access in-room support can have a big impact on teaching activities, stressing the lecturer…
Having weathered the storm that took out power in Stonehaven, I’m back with another hybrid teaching spaces update. Today, I want to to reflect on how it’s gone in our first two weeks of the semester and get an update on the ongoing work to roll out Dual-Mode to the…
A quick update this evening. The fabulous Jonathan Walker (Staff) and our install partners, Streamtec, have completed the weekend work updating rooms ready for tomorrow. I’m pleased to say that we have now upgraded 23 teaching rooms and three lecture theatres to the Dual-Mode design. You can find the full updated…
Dual-Mode is a new design standard for our Hybrid Teaching Spaces. It’s designed to be intuitive to use while offering an powerful range of capabilities to the academic community. Below you can find a printable quick guide and our walkthrough video to help you on your way.
An enormous amount of effort is happening in the background to meet our previously revised target of having 22 Dual-Mode rooms ready for next week, with the remaining 28 upgraded by the end of January. In today’s post, I want to give you a quick progress update, let you know what to do if you are booked into a Hybrid Teaching Space in the next few weeks and link to our new room tracking page so you can keep track of our progress.
mester 2 just over a week away, I want to be clear and open with where we are with the roll out of Dual-Mode in this post. The bottom line is that we will be unable to meet our target of upgrading the full 50 rooms in time for the 17 January. We have revised our target to deliver 22 rooms, with the rest being commissioned before the end of January. Working with Timetabling, we’ll make every effort to ensure ongoing work does not interfere with teaching, including weekend and evening work. Note that the existing Capture & Stream infrastructure will remain in place until a room is upgraded and commissioned.
Workaround (23/11/21): While Blackboard work on resolving this issue, you can adjust the settings in your browser to manage what happens when you download a file. The issue is occurring when the downloaded file tries to open in your browser, and you can adjust the settings to turn this option…
In case you missed our Hybrid Update #8, we’re pleased to confirm that the next phase of the Hybrid Teaching Spaces project is on track for the start of Semester 2. In addition, we can now confirm details of how and when you can book some instruction and hands-on time…