Ivey Classrooms at the Exchange    
A Videoscope A/V Installation

                          

Project 
The Richard Ivey School of Business has taken a bold step into the heart of Toronto's Financial District, right into The Exchange Tower at the corner of King and York. Part of the University of Western Ontario, Ivey offers business courses, including a 17-month Ivey Executive MBA program to be housed here at the ING Leadership Centre in Toronto.

This new ultra urban setting is a contrast to the gracious 30 acre parkland campus at the Ivey Spencer Leadership Centre in London, Ontario. 

Challenge 
But both locations require top quality Audio Visual Systems. For the two new classrooms in the Exchange Tower, Ivey called Rodd Rossoni, Videoscope System Consultant and his Installation Team who had already worked at Spencer. Through consultation with Max Silletto, Teaching Technology Coordinator at Ivey, they developed simple-to-use, but highly effective multimedia classrooms. 

Scope 
In each classroom, the lecturer and the audience are covered by three Sony wall-mounted cameras and four Audio Technica ceiling microphones, with a Shure wireless mic for the presenter. TOA amplifiers and speakers ensure even audio throughout the rooms. Classes can be recorded to DVD.

In the main classroom, the feeds are also tied into a Tandberg Videoconferencing System for live interaction with other Ivey classrooms (in London, Ontario and Hong Kong) and off-site guest lecturers. 

The lecturer is the key to the whole system. 
Everything is handled by a user-friendly AMX control system via a touchscreen panel at the lecture desk.

Computers, documents, and video can all be displayed on the custom Da-Lite 16:9 screen. Multiple windows are generated by the RGB Spectrum SuperView 4000 graphics processor. All visual inputs go through it live to the ceiling-mounted Sharp XG-C430 LCD projector. The graphics processor can handle up to 12 inputs: 6 from computers, 6 from video devices. It is tucked away along with the VCR/DVD combo player and DVD recorder in a small rack built into the lecture desk. Other A/V infrastructure is discreetly housed in a closet-sized rack room.

Results
Videoscope delivered a complete package to Ivey, providing installation, operations training and support, as well as a maintenance contract.

The installation has been so successful that Ivey has contracted Videoscope to provide the same A/V for a new classroom at the Spencer Leadership Centre campus in London.

Teaching Technology Coordinator, Max Silletto comments: "Great job and on time too. It was a pleasant experience, working with the staff at Videoscope."

For more information about the Richard Ivey School of Business at the Exchange Tower. 
Click to  www.ivey.uwo.ca/toronto

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