DCS Readies More Spaces for Flexible Teaching

At the onset of the pandemic, DCS began preparations to upgrade its classrooms to facilitate the different teaching challenges presented by COVID-19. When in-person classes were suspended in the middle of the Spring 2020 semester, that meant helping faculty use our classrooms to teach fully online classes. In the Spring of 2021, in-person classes resumed on a limited basis, and DCS outiftted nine Synchronous Learning Spaces that faculty could use to teach to in-room and remote students simultaneously.

In preparation for the resumption of in-person classes on a large scale, we have sought ways to provide synchronous capability in more spaces so that faculty have rooms that can be used to stream or record classes in case students are unable to be present for a class session. To that end, we have upgraded two more Synchronous Learning Spaces and twenty-five classrooms with instructor cameras and microphones. The eighteen Camera-Equipped Spaces enable instructor to broadcast their classes to remote students or record it for future dissemination from the room's system using apps like Zoom, Webex, BigBlueButton, and Kaltura that they have become familiar with over the last year. The below additions bring out total of Camera-Equipped Spaces to thirty-seven. You can learn more about all of our rooms designed for videoconferencing, streaming, and recording on the Synchronous Spaces page.

New Camera-Equipped Spaces

Beck Hall: 003, 011, 013, 101, 111, 119, 121
Blake Hall: 101
Honors College: E128, N106, S120, S124, S126
Murray Hall: 207
Rutgers Academic Building: 1100, 2100, 2150, 2200, 2250, 3100, 3200, 3450, 4400
Thompson Hall: 101
Tillett Hall: 116