The following guide for distance learning classroom operations focuses on your local room and the equipment in your room. The remote site is the distant site(s) with which you are communicating.

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1. Five Easy Steps

TO A SUCCESSFUL DISTANCE LEARNING EVENT, HAVE YOU:

1. _____ Scheduled your event through the W.G.T.D. office?
2. _____ Turned on the system with remote touch pad? If the display on the touch pad is not visible, select, "Menu". This equipment should have been turned on with the touch pad:
   • _____ 53" monitor
   • _____ Preview monitor
   • _____ Instructor camera
   • _____ Student camera
   • _____ Document camera
   • _____ VCR
   • _____ Rear monitors if present
3. _____ Taken off audio "privacy", if engaged and adjusted volume? (Audio Functions)
4. _____ Prepared the 53" front monitor for viewing? (Front Monitor)
   _____ Use the PIP to view your classroom? [This is what the remote site sees.] (Front Monitor)
5. _____ Taken steps to return the room to its original status? Turned off system with remote touch pad.
   _____ Plugged in remote to charge whenever not in use.

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2. AMX Remote Soft Key Pad

The entire system is operated by one soft key remote control. There are nine "pages" or screens that allow you control all equipment.

1. Main Page - To turn on/off system; select the source for big screen, small monitor; control volume; mute the remote site. Sources include instructor camera, student camera, doc cam (document camera),VCR, auxiliary and "other controls".
2. Instructor Camera Presets - To select and/or save presets for inst. camera.
3. Instructor Camera Controls - To adjust inst. camera, auto tracking, and move to preset page.
4. Student Camera Presets - To select and/or save presets for stud. camera.
5. Student Camera Controls - To adjust stud. camera, auto tracking and move to preset page.
6. VCR Control - To control VCR, record local or remote site, control volume.
7. Other Controls - To select large monitor or small preview monitor; mute local site (audio - privacy) or remote site or both simultaneously; control volume; turn on/off stereo capability.
8. Large Monitor Control - To select channel input and control PIP ("picture in picture").
9. Preview Monitor Control - To select sources (instructor camera, student camera, document camera,VCR, auxillary or remote) to preview on the small preview monitor.

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3. Large Front Monitor (53")

Setting the 53" Monitor

The 53" monitor allows you to view the remote site on Video 1 full screen (only during a two-site configuration), or your local site on Video 2(3) full screen, and supports a Picture In Picture (PIP) combination.

To put the 53" monitor on Video 1, press the TV/VIDEO button on the monitor (or press other controls on the main page of the touch pad, then large monitor, then TV/Video and channel up or down) until you see the words VIDEO 1 on the upper right hand corner of the monitor screen.

The following items detail the process for using the PIP functions of the 53" monitor.

PIP Controls on Remote - press other controls on main page, press large monitor, then find PIP controls:

1. PIP - Press on/off once and an inset picture within the primary picture can be viewed. Press it again and the inset gets smaller. Press again and the PIP will disappear. Press again to restart the cycle.
2. SWAP - Press SWAP and the local site (send) inset will swap with the remote site (receive) primary picture. SWAP also returns the local site to the inset (PIP). Use TV/VIDEO button on monitor to get remote site on Video 1 and local on Video 2/3.
3. POSITION - By pressing the position button, the PIP inset will change location within the primary picture to other quadrants. It cycles counterclockwise.
4. When system is turned on, Video 1 should be full screen showing remote site. To get local site shown on Video 2/3, bring up PIP, then Swap, Press TV/VIDEO button on monitor to get Video 2/3 shown on monitor, then press Inst. camera, Stud., doc, or VCR on touch remote (whatever you want to send).
   You may also select other sources, then large monitor, then TV/Video, then channel up or down on remote touch pad to get to the channel you desire on the large screen.

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4. Instructor & Student Cameras

2 Sony Cameras

The Sony cameras are located on top of the big screen in the front of the room (student camera) and on a wall in the back of the room (instructor camera). They enable you to pan, tilt, zoom, pre-set, and track (on the instructor camera only).

Camera Selection

Press either instructr camera (instructor camera) or student camera from main menu. Adjust using pan, tilt, zoom. Press main menu.

Previewing Camera Shot

To preview cam shot before actually switching to it, press other controls from main menu, select preview monitor. If you like the way it looks, press main menu, then select camera to put up on big screen.

To Set a Preset

After adjusting camera from either instructor or student camera control page, press presets. Press preset save. Press a preset button (P1, P2, P3, etc.). Press main menu.

You can preset up to 6 views ahead of time. When you select a camera from the main menu, you can then pick which preset you want to appear on the big screen. It's a good idea to make a written preset list, showing what views you have preset for each number.

Autotrack

Select auto trk on/off. Adjust cam shot to put the square over the face or chest area of the subject to be tracked. As you move the square, numbers appear on the screen. Choose the area displaying the higher number to rest the square on, and select autotrk start/stop to "set" the tracking function of the camera. When the subject attempts to move out of the framed area, the camera will follow him/her, keeping the subject in the framed range at all times.

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5. Document Camera

1. The document camera is used mostly to display pictures, photos, slides, negatives, transparencies and three-dimensional objects on the 53" monitor.
   1. To display a solid item:
      1. Push VID button located under Video Out on document camera.
      2. Place item on screen area.
      3. Item can be focused by using ZOOM - the black button on the right: W & T (W=Wide View / T=Telephoto View)
      4. More or less light can be had by engaging the IRIS button: close open Close gives less light. Open gives more light.
      5. Push doc cam on main menu of remote.
   2. To display a slide or a transparency:
      1. Follow steps i-iii above, then:
      2. Push (blue) LIGHTING button once. This eliminates side lights and turns on the bottom light for better viewing.
      3. More or less light can be had by engaging the IRIS button: close & open (Close gives less light. Open gives more light).
      4. Push doc cam on main menu of remote.
   3. To display a negative:
      1. Turn on the document camera.
      2. Push VID button located under VIDEO OUT.
      3. Place negative on screen area.
      4. Press NEGA button (front, on left side).
      5. Item can be focused by using ZOOM (see #1 c. above)
      6. More or less light can be had by engaging the IRIS button (see #1 d. above)
      7. Push doc cam on main menu of the remote.
      8. Push NEGA button again to disengage.
      9. Push (blue) LIGHTING button two times to re-engage side lights.
2. The top part of the document camera is also a camcorder, which can be used to focus on people in the room, a table display, etc.

   To use the camcorder:

   1. Slide the lens cap off. It does not completely remove - it just slides out of the way.
   2. Twist and turn the camera to focus on the desired subject(s).
   3. Use ZOOM (black button on right) W T to focus on subject.
   4. Push doc cam on main menu of the remote.
      
      BE SURE TO REPLACE POSITION OF CAMERA AND LENS CAP WHEN YOU ARE FINISHED!
3. To preview doc cam before putting it on large screen, press main menu, press other controls, press preview monitor, press doc cam. Make sure VID is pressed on doc cam.

   DO NOT WRITE ON THE DOCUMENT CAMERA SCREEN!!-- or on a paper that is on the document camera screen unless the screen is covered with a piece of transparency or laminated material.

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Created: Apr.24.1999   Last updated: Oct.13,1999. Comment to Dave Bartlett.