Part 3: The Future
Fall 2023 Classroom Survey Feedback
In-Person/Remote Needs
Instructors were asked which resources they expect to use for future classroom sessions. There were 102 respondents, 156 answers, and 7 categories:
- Zoom - Guest Lecturers only: 26.9%
- Zoom - Remote and in-person attendance/class participation: 22.4%
- Zoom - Lecture Capture: 15.4%
- None or N/A: 13.5%
- Kaltura Classroom - Lecture Capture: 12.2%
- Zoom - Instructor in classroom, all students attend remotely: 5.8%
- Other: 3.8%
Wireless Presentation Information
Wireless Presentation in classrooms would allow users to wirelessly connect their portable devices to display content on the classroom presentation display. Wireless presentation systems have been deployed in several classrooms and lecture halls on both campuses, though not campus wide.
Instructors were asked if they would be interested in using Wireless Presentation for their courses; and if so, how would they use it.
Interest:
- 55.9% interested
- 20.6% very interested
- 37.3% slightly interested
- 2% have used wireless presentation previously. Of these 8.8% rated the experience very positive, and 11.8% rated the experience somewhat positive.
How they would use it:
- 23.6% - only present files (photos, documents, pdfs) from my mobile device
- 16.1% - Show specific apps on my tablet, not just files like photos, documents and pdfs. (screen mirroring)
- 33.5% - Control my PowerPoint (or equivalent) presentation away from the podium
- 14.9% - Annotate over my PowerPoint (or equivalent) presentation
- 11.8% - Use my tablet as a wireless notepad to project written notes, equations, or examples to the class
Potential Classroom Technology Needs
The following technologies/tools are available in few spaces, but what if they were available in all central classrooms? 102 survey participants lend some insight to what classroom technologies may be needed in the future. They rated how often they would use these technologies if they were available.
- Instructor Camera:
- 23.5% would use daily
- 39.2% would use some
- 37.3% would not use
- Instructor Camera (audio tracking)
- 18.6% would use daily
- 26.5% would use some
- 54.9% would not use
- Wireless Microphone
- 10.8% would use daily
- 36.3% would use some
- 52.9% would not use
- Document Camera (visual aid)
- 14.7% would use daily
- 45.1% would use some
- 40.2% would not use
- Document Camera (present, classroom)
- 14.7% would use daily
- 32.4% would use some
- 52.9% would not use
- Audience Microphone (ceiling)
- 29.4% would use daily
- 24.5% would use some
- 46.1% would not use
- Instructor Microphone (podium integrated)
- 36.3% would use daily
- 25.5% would use some
- 38.2% would not use
- Wireless Microphone (for check-out)
- 22.5% would use daily
- 18.6% would use some
- 58.8% would not use
- Wireless Presentation (capability)
- 29.4% would use daily
- 27.5% would use some
- 43.1% would not us
Additional Feedback
Other feedback and comments:
- Need to be able to schedule recordings via Kaltura
- Better projection, better sound/speakers to output audio during guest zooms Blu-ray and
DVD - film courses cannot rely on streaming alone - Functioning speaker system to use with wireless microphone.
- HDMI connections
- All classrooms should have two monitors.
- All monitors should be touch screen.
- The ability to write on my slides using a stylus to write on the monitor.
- USB- C connectors
- We need FM "loop" systems in place for people who use assistive listening devices. We REALLY need the ability to provide HyFlex
- If students, from their laptops, could interact with the instructor’s whiteboard (on the instructor’s laptop) it would be great.
- Podium computers should have the ability to do digital inking, or the projection should not cover the whiteboard. As is, except in few classrooms, it is very hard to actively teach mathematics when the projection covers almost all the whiteboard.
- Students often have charging issues, especially as we work with documents during most of class. Any increased access to opportunities for students to charge their devices would be great; most of my classes have about 2-3 unreliable wall outlets and the very reliable outlet in the tech podium, and often all the functional outlets are in use in any given class.