weConnect Classroom configuration

Room types

weConnect gives the possibility to system administrators to create a range of room types, depending on the purpose of the lecture and the way of sharing content by teacher, students or both.
Each room type can have one or more devices with dedicated roles.
And every device can have third party hardware connected (display(s), audio, camera), having dedicated roles.

See [KB7723].

Classroom configuration workflow

Only few clicks are needed to configure a Classroom that can accommodate satisfied users and allows sharing of data without delays. This section shows a stepwise approach on how to configure a Classroom.

Specifics about a Classroom:

• It is meant primarily to share the teacher content with students present in the classroom.
• For classrooms with up to 50 students, optimally.
• The students are encouraged to participate in using their devices (BYOD)
  • students can share content (teacher acts as moderator and can display/block their content)
  • students can participate in polls
  • whiteboard can be set to collaborative mode to allow students to use it
• No pod functionality, as this is meant for collaboration rooms

Go to the room configurations page

It is assumed that at least one room has been defined in the institute and that devices have been paired to that room.

1. Go to the admin UI of your institute. See [KB7712]
2. Go to tab Locations
3. In the institute hierarchy select the physical room for which you want to configure a new room type
   
   
4. Select tab Room configurations

Configure a new room type

1. Click Add configuration
   
   
2. Select a room type, e.g. Classroom
   
3. Optionally change the configuration name. This is required if you want to use a room type multiple times
   
4. Configure the nodes that you want to use in your Classroom. Repeat the steps below for each of them
   
   
   Note: weConnect tells you if your configuration is not valid and lists what needs to be done!
   
   
   • Click Change role
   • Select a role for the node: in a basic Classroom, one Main node must be configured
     
     
     Note: weConnect tells you if the device configuration is not valid and lists what needs to be done!
     
     
   • Scroll down to section Displays and assign role Main display to the display connected to the device
     
     
     
     Note: Click the red bar to collapse the configuration page of the device and click it again to expand it!
   • Don't forget to click Save at the bottom of the configuration page
     
     
5. After having configured all devices for that room, enable the room by clicking Enable
   
   

Overview of the configuration page of a device

Displays

• Role: assign a role to the selected display
• Title: optionally change the display title
• Touch: in case the display is touch enabled, check the box
• Parameters: depending on the display role, more parameters might need to be defined

Audio inputs/outputs

Roles and titles can be assigned to audio inputs and audio outputs.

USB Cameras

Roles and titles can be assigned to a USB camera connected to the device, together with the audio that needs to go with the camera image.

Note: Teacher Content (Barco:001) is only used on the main node in a virtual or hybrid classroom.