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By the Numbers

Data Driven and User Informed

Digital Classroom Services designs, maintains, and supports technology in over 300 learning spaces spread across the Rutgers-New Brunswick campuses. As instructors increasingly look to technology to enhance their classes, DCS has upgraded Rutgers classrooms to meet these needs. Since 2000, DCS has more than tripled the number of classrooms with data projector capability, enabling faculty to project computer based presentations. We continue to upgrade Rutgers classrooms with the twin goals of designing systems that incorporate the latest teaching technologies and implementing these systems across all DCS rooms. To achieve these goals, DCS regularly tracks trends in faculty equipment use to determine what technology best serves classroom needs.

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DCS Overview

 
306
Learning spaces supported
 
99%
of classrooms offer data projection
 
283
Digital Classroom Systems installed since 2012

2024-2025 Academic Year Facts and Figures

 
2,607
Support Tickets Addressed
 
975
Faculty consultations
 
81
Deliveries of portable equipment

A Closer Look

DCS tracks its classrooms and the ways they are used closely so that we can remain responsive to the ways are faculty use technology to teach. The information shared here demonstrates how our technology offerings have grown along with new pedagogy and in response to how instructions use existing technology.

DCS has outfitted suitable classrooms with various versions of the Digital Classroom System – our homegrown presentation hub – since 2012.

We have designed six different systems to match the different sizes and types of classrooms in which they are installed.

Many classrooms also have various levels of equipment to enable videoconferencing, webcasting, and recording.

During any given class period, DCS systems are widely used across the Rutgers-New Brunswick campuses.

By tracking the different types of devices faculty use in class, we can thoughtfully consider new features to introduce and unused features to phase out.

Faculty control Digital Classroom Systems using Rutgers Room Control, an application designed in-house in response to the ways Rutgers instructors like to use DCS technology. This allows us to quickly modify the interface, including hot buttons for quick access to tools, based on user behaviors.