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Extron is Committed to Education. Every day, schools, colleges, and universities around the world use Extron audio and video products to harness the power of multimedia to enrich educational experiences. Extron's AV systems for education provide sharp images, clear sound, simple control, and solid reliability. We constantly seek feedback from educators in order to engineer AV tools that help instructors present more engaging lessons, help students absorb and retain what they learn, and allow administrators to run institutions more efficiently at lower cost.
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Educators have always known the value of multimedia in the classroom and have readily incorporated each successive wave of multimedia technology into their pedagogy - advancing from filmstrips and overhead projectors of generations past to the latest networked 4K video and surround sound. Multimedia learning takes advantage of the brain's ability to associate verbal and visual information to promote deeper engagement and understanding. Today's students are digital natives, wired to consume information electronically. This makes multimedia AV even more attractive as a teaching tool today than it was for previous generations. Educators from primary grades up to the university level rely on Extron to supply state-of-the-art classroom AV technology to keep multimedia content flowing to students with clarity, simplicity, and reliability.
Extron collaborated with our instructors during AV system design to understand specific uses and applications for each course. As Extron customized the AV systems, they provided training and support during and after installation. They were exemplary in follow-up as instructors began using the system verifying everything was running effectively.
The campus-wide standardization initiative focused on consistency. Instructors teach in multiple classrooms during a typical day. We want to provide them with a dependable and uniform AV experience in every room. We also leverage GlobalViewer® Enterprise to implement a strong AV management back-end to maximize AV system uptime.
We strive for simplicity, standardization, and reliability. That’s one of the reasons that we use Extron for switching, distribution, and control. We select AV suppliers based on durability, functionality, and responsive technical support. Extron has always been awesome at all three.
After two to three minutes of familiarization with the AV system, instructors say ‘Wow, that's easy!’ The systems are now in daily use. I measure success by the total lack of calls for assistance. That says it all.
Extron AV Technology Powers First-in-Nation K‑12 Cyber Innovation Center at Canyon Springs High School
Moreno Valley USD’s Cyber Innovation Center teaches skills in computer network maintenance and cybersecurity, earning high school students college credits and preparing them to pass CompTIA certification tests that open doors to rewarding careers.
Extron AV Technology Enhances Over 200 Educational Spaces at Utah Tech University
Joining 175 rooms across the Utah Tech campus that are already standardized on Extron AV switching, distribution, control, and audio amplification equipment, the new Science, Engineering, and Technology building includes twenty standard classrooms with the latest Extron AV technology, all efficiently managed remotely.
University of Connecticut Relies on Extron SMP 351 to Continue Teaching During a Pandemic — and Beyond
Born of necessity during a pandemic, UConn’s streaming infrastructure based on Extron’s SMP 351 Streaming Media Processor and the Kaltura Video Cloud provides HyFlex teaching capability to over 200 classrooms, giving instructors and students in-person, remote, and on-demand attendance options that are in tune with today’s higher education landscape.
Extron Presentation Switchers Keep Classroom AV Simple at Pellissippi State's Bill Haslam Center for Math and Science
Simplicity was the key to success when it came to equipping the Math and Science Center’s 18 classrooms and other teaching spaces with versatile, approachable AV systems on a budget, built around the small but effective equipment complement of an Extron scaling presentation switcher paired with an Extron audio amplifier and a projector.
Lecture halls are ideal for conducting popular classes that attract large numbers of students. Their tiered seating allows everyone to have a clear view of the lecture platform, while the AV systems amplify the lecturer's voice and display instructional material on large screens so that the instructor can be seen and heard clearly even by those in the back rows. Extron offers a variety of solutions for audio amplification, AV switching and distribution, control, as well as lecture capture and AV system resource management. These products are carefully designed to enhance learning experiences through better sound and video, reliability, and ease of control.
Whenever a request comes to connect different halls together for overflow purposes, it is easy to accommodate because every signal is already on the network with NAV® to pick up.
My long-standing experience with Extron is one factor influencing selection of Extron as an AV equipment supplier for the SET building and other campus AV upgrades. But the major technical delineators were Extron’s AV system control and remote support models, which make it extremely easy for AV professionals to design, configure, and manage complex rooms.
We can send a source from any room to any other room in the complex; the NAV® system turns the entire MECD complex into one enormous, flexible learning space.
The Surgical Education Center, its videowall, and NAV® AVoIP network tying all meeting spaces together surpassed everyone’s expectations. We couldn’t have done it without the aid of a company that was willing to embrace our design goals, train us, and support us, as Extron did.
Extron AV over IP and Control Enable Extensive Connectivity Capabilities at TU Delft’s New Echo Building
The Echo building's diverse teaching spaces support flexible layouts and the ability to divide the largest lecture hall into three separate rooms, requiring a highly adaptable AV system that would allow projectors, screens, and microphones to seamlessly transition between different room configurations.
Extron AV Technology Enhances Over 200 Educational Spaces at Utah Tech University
In keeping with the concept of AV system commonality across all learning spaces on the Utah Tech campus so that professors are comfortable teaching anywhere, large classrooms and lecture halls springboard off the same AV system design as the standard classrooms, augmented to accommodate larger square footage and increased occupancy.
Extron NAV & AV Switching Systems Help Students Collaborate and Connect at the University of Manchester
University of Manchester's engineering campus features two-tiered lecture theatres, teaching clusters, 120+ Meet & Teach rooms, five large, interconnected teaching areas, labs, workshops, and a unique blended lecture/dry lab theater; all linked by Extron AV switching systems with robust sound and all managed by Extron GlobalViewer® Enterprise AV resource management software.
Extron NAV Pro AV over IP Expands the Reach of Surgical Grand Rounds at UNC Chapel Hill School of Medicine
Current and future surgeons at UNC School of Medicine regularly gather for surgical grand rounds sessions in a 140-seat Surgical Education Center featuring a 24' x 5' videowall, a smart lectern, and streaming AV connectivity to the internet, sharing medical knowledge about a wide range of topics presented by local, regional, and international speakers.
Students today learn in collaborative and interactive ways, reflecting the teamwork‑focused nature of the modern business world. To support this shift, schools and universities are creating active learning spaces where small groups can brainstorm, exchange ideas, and complete projects. Extron offers an array of AV collaboration solutions that enable institutions to customize their learning environments. Our ShareLink® Pro Wired and Wireless Presentation Systems empower students and instructors to share content to any display in the room. Whatever the need, Extron provides the solutions to enhance the learning experience.
This room has acted as the College's proof of concept for moving signal and control routing to NAV® and we are already having additional spaces designed around the NAV architecture.
Extron has been the standard for AV spaces at Central Piedmont since 2012. Through standardization, we keep equipment complements consistent. That streamlines installation, AV control programming, and troubleshooting. This translates to savings in time and money. For those reasons, Extron was our choice for the Parr Center.
The IT Institute AV systems rely on Extron switching, distribution, and control. All rooms network to our GlobalViewer® Enterprise server, allowing us to monitor and control the AV systems remotely for maintenance and to help faculty operate the AV. This is very important, since we are located offsite at our main campus three miles away.
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If I see pod content I really like, we use ShareLink® to project it on the main display so all students can see what great work looks like. Students are really excited about the AV technology in the collab labs. They love being able to see and share their work on the large screens, and it integrates our technology standards.
Extron NAV AVoIP System Stimulates Active Learning at Endicott College
Endicott College created active learning classrooms where students gather in 4-person collaboration groups at pods that include 43" flat panel displays, Extron Show Me® cables, and HDMI switchers that allow student AV content from laptops and other portable devices to be shown on the local pod display, on the displays of neighboring pods, or the instructor’s projection screen at the front of the room.
Extron AV Powers Learning & Collaboration at Central Piedmont Community College Parr Center
Whether it's open study kiosks, secluded collaboration rooms, or conference rooms, there are AV equipped spaces on every floor of the Parr Center where individuals and small groups use AV tools such as the HC 404 Meeting Space Collaboration System to study and share ideas.
Extron AV Switching and Control Help Phoenix College IT Institute Create a Skilled IT Workforce
The Cybersecurity Classroom, where students learn to troubleshoot computers and networks on an isolated LAN, includes four student pods, each with five PCs, a 50" flat panel display, and an IN1806 presentation switcher that, working with the room’s central XTP® II CrossPoint® 1600 matrix switcher, allows any of the PCs to share AV content to the local pod screen or to the screens in the other pods for class-wide collaboration.
Mobile County Public Schools Use Extron Collaboration Technology to Create Busy Learning Spaces
Mobile County Public School System converted spaces on multiple campuses into popular collaboration spaces with 7-person pods containing 48″ flat panel displays, Extron TeamWork® collaboration systems, and ShareLink® Pro wireless presentation systems that allow AV content sharing within the pods or to a 75″ interactive flat panel display at the front of the room.
School auditoriums have become multifunctional performing arts showplaces with stage lifts, special effects lighting, and sophisticated AV systems. They are booked solid for school functions, community events, and teaching of on-stage talent and back-stage crafts. These facilities can be part of a planetarium where a large videowall takes audiences on virtual voyages through the galaxy. Or they can be part of a museum displaying anything from paintings to moon rocks, with multimedia-enriched presentations on flat screen displays. Events staged in these locations require the professional production values of HD-SDI video and multi-channel audio, distributed over long distances, as well as sophisticated signal processing. Extron meets these needs with XTP® and NAV® twisted pair and fiber optic switching and transmission systems, supported by powerful video scalers, videowall processors, and audio DSP processors that make auditoriums and exhibit halls come alive.
Reliability, cost, and ease of use have driven the decision for Wake Tech to select Extron as our vendor. Most of our campuses are outfitted with Extron in our academic spaces and conference rooms. The hardware can easily be maintained by our team. Additionally, the support from Extron is top notch.
The transformation of the Anderson Ball Room into a ‘State of the Art’ teleconferencing and technology center is amazing. I was blown away during my visit.
From lecture-style classes to national press conferences, Extron’s AV products provide the capability to seamlessly configure the NVRC’s K.G. Tan Auditorium to support the wide variety of events that occur in the space.
Our 15 years of experience with Extron gave us confidence that their products were right for the Hill Library applications. No matter the circumstance, we know we can depend on Extron's support.
Wake Tech Creates Multipurpose Presentation Spaces with Extron AV Switching, Distribution & Control Products
The multipurpose performance space includes a stage facing an audience of 275 and a concert-caliber control booth equipped with a live production audio mixing console, a lighting control console for stage and house lighting, and an AV system control station where a TouchLink® Pro touchpanel paired with an IPCP Pro 350 control processor manages a DTP® CrossPoint® switcher to set up multiple feeds to multiple displays during theatrical productions.
Extron NAV Pro AV over IP Powers Audiovisual Amenities in WSSU Anderson Center Meeting Spaces
NAV® Pro AV over IP forms the backbone of the AV system, using 1 Gbps Ethernet cable infrastructure to send 4K video, Dante/AES67 audio, and RS-232 control signals throughout Anderson Center’s conference venues, including the McNeil Banquet Hall, the 400-seat Dillard Auditorium, and their lobbies.
Syracuse University Auditorium Delivers World-Class AV with Extron
The 744-seat K. G. Tan Auditorium is equipped with an XTP® II CrossPoint® matrix switcher that selects from an array of on-stage and off-stage HDMI and SDI AV content sources to display images on three videowalls and to immerse the hall in surround sound decoded by an SSP 200 surround sound processor, all controlled by an IPCP Pro 555Q xi control processor that users access from multiple TouchLink® Pro touchpanels in the control room and on the front wall of the auditorium.
Extron AV Solutions Create Engaging Study Venues at Renovated North Carolina State University Hill Library
In the Visualization Studio, an XTP® II CrossPoint 1600 matrix switcher, controlled by an IPCP Pro 555 control processor responding to user selections made through a touchpanel interface on an iPad running the Extron Control App, selects program content for eight projectors and twelve speakers, creating an immersive 360-degree video and Dolby Atmos® surround sound theater-in-the-round experience.
The HyFlex model enriches learning by allowing students to participate live in-person or remotely, and access on-demand content via any device. This flexibility improves learning outcomes by providing a consistent experience for both in-person and remote learners. Using collaboration and streaming technologies, schools offer real-time, interactive instruction where remote learners look and feel like they are in the room with instructors and classmates, able to watch lectures, ask questions, and contribute. For those who prefer to learn at their own pace, schools provide recorded lessons that can be streamed on-demand, thanks to high speed Internet. Schools rely on Extron's SME and VN Matrix® streaming media encoders, SMD media players, as well as turn-key solutions like the Extron SMP Series recording and streaming processors and the StudioStation® one-touch recording solution to enhance learning beyond the classroom.
Full Teams® Room solutions are rare in Singapore’s educational institutions. We broke new ground with this Teams-based HyFlex AV system design. Extron’s unwavering on-site and remote support got us through every challenge encountered. The end product is an AV system that provides Temasek Polytechnic lecturers and students with smooth, effective HyFlex teaching and learning experiences that work reliably every day.
The NAV® technology is a game changer and allows us to deliver content anywhere at any time. The AV over IP scheme is also a welcome change from the heavily used HDMI standard. You don't have to be an audiovisual expert to use Extron products and the performance has been great so far. This is the third time in my career I've worked directly with Extron's products on a project and every time has been exceptional. The design was thorough, the support has been great, and the solutions are always top-notch.
The classrooms in the Curtis Media Center are true HyFlex classrooms. Professors can use instructor reference monitors to see remote students as if they were an extension of the classroom. If students are missing class, they’ll feel more like part of the class because they are getting a two-way experience, and the professor can actually see them.
Knowledgeable, friendly support, solid reliability with long end-of-life product update cycles, and money-saving integrated solutions that pack interfacing, switching, amplification, and control into a single unit are key reasons why The Citadel has been an Extron school for a long time.
Temasek Polytechnic in Singapore Uses Extron AV and Microsoft Teams to Create HyFlex Classrooms
Ten HyFlex learning spaces were built using the Microsoft Teams Rooms UC engine for audio and video transmission between classrooms and remote students, an 86" interactive touchscreen display serving as a whiteboard, another 86" secondary display providing views of classroom and remote students, and an Extron MGP 641xi enhancing the HyFlex experience by creating multi-window displays of up to four video sources on in‑room and far‑end screens.
Extron NAV Pro AV over IP Helps Tie it All Together for Medical School in the Bahamas
Relying on Extron NAV® Pro AV over IP as the AV system backbone, Western Atlantic University School of Medicine outfitted its classrooms with state-of the-art audiovisual technologies to enhance its active learning teaching style, incorporating high-definition video conferencing for remote learning and digital signage to display important information throughout the campus.
Extron NAV Pro AV over IP Is the Core of UNC’s Multimedia-Rich Curtis Media Center
A central pool of Extron SMP 352 streaming media processors integrated with Panopto can live stream, broadcast, and record AV content from all classrooms, seminar spaces, and the broadcast studio, enabling a HyFlex teaching model that allows students to attend in-person, remotely, or on-demand.
The Citadel Military College Enlists Extron AV Solutions to Educate Business Majors at New Bastin Hall
Four classrooms are set up for HyFlex learning, with MediaPort® 200 units connecting in-room audio and video from boundary mics and PTZ cameras to remote students via Zoom for real time instruction and to Mediasite® for on-demand viewing via the Canvas® learning management platform.
In education, esports reaches beyond traditional sports to create an all-inclusive environment where students can compete and win regardless of athletic ability. Like traditional sports, esports fosters teamwork, communication, and problem solving. Esports programs help schools recruit and retain students. By participating in school esports, students build competencies leading to careers in esports marketing, business management, game development, and graphic design. We have extensive experience helping schools design esports AV systems that meet their unique needs:
High-resolution, ultra-low latency video signal extension, switching, and processing.
High-power audio processed by DSP to reach the ears of audiences with exciting, engaging clarity.
Streaming and recording for league competitions over Internet gaming platforms.
Everyone involved in designing and installing the esports lounge network and AV systems came together and communicated well. CSUCI’s network team talked with Extron and learned everything they needed to do. Extron quickly diagnosed and resolved the few network issues that popped up during integration. Everything came together on the planned schedule. Everything worked great.
Throughout the rollout of the esports lab, Extron was extremely proactive in working to make the project a complete success.
Seventy-five cadets participated in the design and construction of the esports facility AV upgrade. Collaborating with Extron on the project immersed them in a technologically advanced training environment. The hands-on experience gave them a deeper understanding of the hardware and software that makes esports possible, empowering their passion for competitive gaming.
To get the esports venues up and running, we needed to create infrastructure that was cost effective and easily scalable for future growth. William Reed built the AV systems himself from spare Extron equipment that we had on hand, which ticked the box for ‘cost effective’. As the esports program grew in popularity, we upgraded to newer Extron equipment, with help from integrator Strategic Connections. That ticked the box for ‘scalable’. It’s a winning strategy for the school’s AV team as well as for the esports teams.
Extron AV Levels-Up Esports at Cal State University Channel Islands
Fourteen gaming stations plus an instructor station interact over the Ethernet LAN, where the instructor station can select and observe the gameplay action from any station and send the content via HDMI to the NAV® Pro AV over IP network for routing to six overhead SF 26PT pendant speakers and any of three large flat panel spectator displays.
Extron Brings Vibrancy to NC State University Esports
The NC State Gaming and Esports Lab features 35 gaming PCs, four gaming console stations, seven PTZ cameras, and 12 large screen displays ranging from 65″ to 98″, with an Extron XTP® II CrossPoint® 3200 matrix switcher selecting and transporting high quality, low latency video images and sound of gaming action to all spectators in response to user selections made at multiple TouchLink® Pro touchpanels located throughout the lab.
Extron AV Equips Army West Point Esports Teams to Compete and Win
At the Army West Point Esports facility, cadets compete in intercollegiate league tournaments from five high performance player stations, with Extron AV signal processing, switching, distribution, control, and audio components enabling ultra-low latency distribution of fast paced gameplay images and sound throughout the facility and streamed over the Internet.
Extron AV Enables Wake Tech to Create Exciting Esports Venues
Adopting a “build it and they will come” approach, Wake Tech entered esports with a modest budget in a repurposed divisible classroom using AV equipment already on hand, and when the esports program took off, they updated to the latest Extron AV components, including a DXP 88 HD 4K PLUS 8x8 matrix switcher, a 200-watt XPA® 2001 amplifier, and an IPCP Pro 250 xi control processor.
Extron AV switching solutions make it easy to get instructional content from source to screen over short or long distances with up to 8K video resolution and clear mono, stereo, or surround sound. Our video signal processors and scalers convert, reformat, and optimize HDMI and SDI video, making your images pop on any screen. And our audio signal processors tailor sound to compensate for room acoustics and echoes. Whether a classroom, a lecture hall, or an esports venue, our comprehensive lineup of switching and processing products will meet the challenge.
Compared to the legacy AV systems, the AV over IP topology requires fewer components, yet delivers more capability and easier scalability. We can take content from one classroom and feed it into another for overflow audiences. It's a capability we've always had and was a must-have requirement for the retrofit. It's working great through the AV over IP network.
The real challenge over the years was adapting to the project's continuous evolution and changing room uses. We opted for Extron’s highly flexible and current technology, implementing the Extron NAV® Pro AV over IP System for all major audio, video, and USB routing in combination with our standard Extron solutions.
We have a lot of qualitative data from coaches, teachers, and administrative staff explaining how students that were indifferent to their studies have turned around because of our esports program. Technology, such as Extron’s XTP® system, is a contributing factor to student transformation and success.
Our Hilmer Lodge Stadium is one of a kind, taking full advantage of today’s superlative technologies such as our 85 foot LED scoreboard and the XTP® system that supports it and the rest of the complex. This is an amazing facility and it’s going to continue to be for many years to come.
Duke Law School Modernizes Lecture Halls and Moot Courtroom with Extron AV Solutions
Duke University School of Law, one of the world's leading law schools, has long relied on audiovisual teaching systems. Duke Law’s AV team recently upgraded existing AV in lecture halls and a moot courtroom with the latest Extron products, including NAV® Pro AV over IP for AV content switching and distribution. The upgrade immediately boosted system reliability and introduced user-friendly control capabilities not previously available with the older technology.
Extron Switching, AV over IP, and Control Provide Flexibility for New Library at University of Udine
The Scientific and Technological Library at Italy’s University of Udine is the first newly constructed building to be erected in over 15 years on a campus consisting of renovated historical structures. Extron switching, streaming, AV over IP, and control technologies are the foundation for the building’s AV systems. NAV® Pro AV over IP blends the adaptability of IP-based technology with the efficiency of virtual switching to distribute video, audio, and USB signals between the library’s classrooms and meeting rooms. Within the rooms, localized AV switching is performed by a variety of presentation switchers and HDMI switchers, creating a seamless and flexible AV infrastructure within the library.
Compton Students Level Up with Esports and Extron XTP
Compton Unified School District in Southern California began their esports program to better engage K12 students. Their esports lab at Davis Middle School relies on advanced AV switching system, powered by Extron XTP®, to achieve seamless presentation of the gaming content, including instantaneous content display triggered by student reactions and interactions at multiple gaming stations.
Mt. San Antonio College is the largest community college on the west coast. They built an entirely new sports complex for their football, track and field, and cross country athletics programs. The AV system supports interconnected rooms, myriad display devices, and an 85’ x 37' LED display that acts as a scoreboard and presentation videowall. Extron XTP® provides AV distribution for the expansive complex.
The primary mode of learning in the classroom is listening. Students listen to the teacher, and they listen to each other. Even well-designed classrooms can have acoustics that make hearing and being heard a challenge: background noise, reverberation, and long distances from speakers to listeners all contribute to the problem. Our VoiceLift® Pro Microphone ensures that all students can hear the lessons being taught, whether the source is the teacher's voice, or a multimedia AV presentation from a laptop or media player. A variety of speakers, amplifiers, and audio DSP products can further boost classroom audio and voice amplification as needed.
In a perfect world, we aim to refresh our AV systems every five years. But we often stretch that to six, seven, or eight years. The Extron equipment just keeps going, with better than 95% uptime. I can’t remember having ever replaced an Extron amplifier. And I’ve got Extron power supplies that have been running for 12 years.
Extron products allow us to easily transform from a classroom-style lecture hall to a multi-candidate debate stage, as well as a 7.1 surround sound theatre. This versatility makes the K. G. Tan Auditorium in the National Veterans Resource Center at Syracuse University a world-class presentation and production space.
The DMP 128 works especially well in terms of echo cancellation and the smooth integration with the PolyCom system.
Extron AV Enriches Sports Experiences at Charlotte Country Day School Athletic and Aquatic Center
Charlotte Country Day School is a top-rated private school in Charlotte, North Carolina, serving 2,000 students in grades PK to 12. The Klein Aquatic Center and Harris Performance Gym are recent additions to the campus. State-of-the-art audiovisual amenities like projectors, flat panel displays, videowalls, digital signage, and sophisticated sound systems that include Extron XPA® amplifiers, SF 26PT SoundField® pendent speakers, and SF 26CT ceiling speakers, enhance these sports facilities.
Syracuse University Auditorium Delivers World-Class AV with Extron
Recognizing that central New York needed a large high-end venue to host events with big audiences, Syracuse University built a 744 seat auditorium as the centerpiece of its National Veterans Resource Center. The auditorium’s AV system includes Extron XTP Systems® to provide signal switching and routing, an Extron SMP 351 integrated with Kaltura to stream and record events, and intuitive system control through TouchLink® Pro touchpanels and an IPCP Pro xi control processor. An Extron SSP 200 surround sound processor decodes and upmixes Dolby® Atmos 7.1 surround sound from a variety of sources, driving ten speaker zones to produce memorably immersive audiences experiences.
Coastline Refreshes Campus AV with Extron Digital Switching, Streaming, and Pro Series Control
The Coast Community College District in California upgraded AV teaching systems in classrooms, lecture halls and videoconferencing spaces with Extron AV technology. XTP® systems switch and extend AV signals. SMP 351 streaming media processors record and stream presentations for archive, video on demand, and postproduction. TouchLink® Pro touchpanels and IPCP Pro control processors provide an intuitive AV control operator interface. A DMP Plus audio DSP processor provides acoustic echo cancellation for clear conversations between in-room and remote videoconference participants.
Instruction is shifting away from lecture toward collaborative learning, where students gather in small groups to solve problems and perform tasks that begin with facts and ideas and progress to applications. Learning spaces configured into pods equipped with AV systems that allow students to easily share content from BYOD laptops, tablets, and smartphones enable collaborative learning. Students can share with their immediate group on a pod display. The instructor can elevate ideas by sending content from any pod to the front-of-room screen or stream it via H.264 streams to devices across the classroom. Extron ShareLink® Pro presentation systems are specifically aimed at satisfying collaborative learning needs. Augmenting these are a variety of products to store, extend, and stream the content that collaboration spaces need to share beyond their boundaries.
Milgard Hall landed on the drawing board at just the right time. We took everything we’d learned while upgrading the AV systems in the historic existing buildings on the Tacoma campus and applied all of that experience to this brand-new teaching facility. Modern Extron AV systems deliver the collaborative capabilities that were one of the key design goals for this unique and beautiful structure. We're pretty excited about the way it turned out.
The Bachmann Collaboration Building at Flintridge Preparatory School is a laboratory for experimentation, but its technology needed to be vetted, reliable, and proven practical, so we went with products and solutions from Extron.
Thanks to Extron’s innovative TouchLink® Pro and eBUS® solutions, we were able to create one large control program for University of West England's collaboration classroom that is shared among two GUI interfaces, 12 button panels, and two switches with the control processor built into the IN1608 xi switcher.
The flexibility of online and classroom instruction, combined with our high-quality programs and the affordable nature of a community college, is what has made the dream of a college degree a reality for so many people. Using Extron digital switching, recording/streaming and IPCP Pro Series control products across campus helps us live up to our slogan of having Tomorrow’s College Today.
University of Washington Tacoma Continues Long-Standing Reliance on Extron AV in Latest Campus Building
The University of Washington Tacoma campus mixes newly constructed buildings with renovated century-old brick warehouse buildings that date from the days when the area was a harborside freight terminal. 115+ learning spaces are equipped with Extron-powered AV systems that support collaboration across UW Tacoma’s seven schools. The newly built Milgard Hall exemplifies how UW leverages AV to foster collaboration. The building features a High Impact Practices (HIPs) seminar venue, large classrooms, and laboratories that rely on Extron presentation switchers, XTP®, and DTP® systems for AV signal switching, extension, and control. Listening experiences are enhanced by Extron DMP Plus audio DSP processors and Extron SoundField® speakers. SMP 352 streaming media processors record and stream presentations live or on-demand, allowing distance learners to collaborate with those on campus.
Extron AV Switching, Sound, and Control Systems Empower Collaborative Learning at Flintridge Prep
Flintridge Preparatory School in Southern California is a private preparatory school with students in grades 7-12. The classrooms, labs, studios, and study spaces feature AV systems that work with students’ personal mobile devices for interactive cooperation. The school’s Bachmann Collaboration Building is modeled on this concept, implemented through an AV system built with Extron scaling presentation switchers, DTP® Series transmitters and receivers, SoundField® speakers, and MediaLink® Plus control products.
Extron Presentation Switching & NAV Pro AVoIP Systems Enable Law Enforcement Collaborative Learning at UWE
The University of West of England (UWE) augmented their law enforcement education offerings. This entailed adding collaborative classrooms, simulated interrogation rooms, and forensic training crime scene simulation rooms. Extron NAV® Pro AV over IP supports sharing of student perspectives by providing audiovisual links between rooms. The AV over IP network provides two-way communication between classrooms and simulation spaces, allowing students and instructors in the classrooms to observe and critique in real time the actions fellow students take during the simulated scenarios.
Coastline Refreshes Campus AV with Extron Digital Switching, Streaming, and Pro Series Control
The Coast Community College District in California upgraded AV teaching systems in classrooms, lecture halls and videoconferencing spaces with Extron AV technology. The lecture halls and videoconferencing spaces are built for seamless collaboration between those located onsite and those attending online. An XTP® CrossPoint 3200 switch provide fast, efficient, and reliable interconnection of AV content between rooms to facilitate interaction between attendees and accommodation of overflow crowds, whether they are students and instructors participating in lectures, or community members drawn to community events.
The most important consideration for classroom technology is ease of use. Well designed control systems assure this by providing an intuitive user interface, flexible automated or manual configuration of all devices, and solid reliability. Keypad controllers such as Extron's MediaLink® Plus are simple devices that provide functionality to operate a typical single display classroom AV system. They have an intuitive user interface consisting of a few backlit mechanical or touchscreen buttons and perhaps a volume control and can be set up to control multiple devices with the push of a single button. The AV system can be activated for the day's lessons as easily as turning on the lights. Their rugged construction stands up well to the rigors of daily classroom use. For more sophisticated applications our TouchLink® Pro touchpanels, coupled with our IP Link® Pro xi control processors, provide the advantages of a customizable graphical user interface, the ability to configure macro control functions for virtually unlimited AV system automation, and sleek aesthetics with vibrant color graphics on durable glass screens.
Extron’s AV control system design for the esports facility met our requirement to keep things intuitive for users. The touchpanel GUIs show clickable room maps of gaming stations and video displays. That makes assigning gaming stations to teams, creating competition matchups, and arranging multiple video windows on room displays very natural for users while the control system handles switching and routing behind the scenes.
My goal for the AV user interfaces is to keep the same look and feel across campus. I have a TouchLink® template, which I fine tune in collaboration with the AV integrator for each application. For this project, I worked with ClarkPowell to configure the control GUIs. Extron wrote the drivers that control the Harris Gym lighting system, allowing us to adjust the lighting from the touchpanel interface.
Recursav programmed the TouchLink® Pro touchpanels to replicate the look and feel of the non-Extron user interfaces that were replaced. When the new AV system went live, I noticed that the new touchpanels provide a crisper response than the panels that were replaced. I received zero calls from users for assistance with the new system. That indicates to me that end users didn’t even notice the change, which was the goal.
The customized and user-friendly TouchLink® Pro touchpanel offers intuitive system operation which simplifies control for the instructors at The Education University of Hong Kong .
It’s Game On with Extron NAV at Long Beach City College’s New Esports Facility
Southern California’s Long Beach City College has a winning esports program with its own esports facility. Extron audiovisual technology immerses fans and players in the gaming action. In addition to a flexible, scalable, ultra-low latency NAV® Pro AV over IP network that switches and distributes AV content, the LBCC esports facility features an Extron AV control system that’s a standout example of how a custom-designed AV control system can enhance the user experience. 15" TouchLink® Pro touchpanels at the reception desk and the shoutcaster booth display the room floorplan. A few taps on the touchpanel GUI assign players to gaming PCs, organize team matchups, and set up AV content routing from sources to displays. The shoutcaster touchpanel has production mode AV controls and one-button macros that are effective tools for creating esports broadcasts with professional production values.
Extron AV Enriches Sports Experiences at Charlotte Country Day School Athletic and Aquatic Center
North Carolina’s Charlotte Country Day School is a private school for grades PK to 12 with a student population of approximately 2000. The Klein Aquatic Center and Harris Performance Gym support the school’s robust athletic programs. As with other teaching spaces throughout the campus, Extron equipment manages AV signal distribution and control in these facilities. Users operate the AV systems through TouchLink® Pro touchpanels and IPCP Pro xi Series control processors. An iPad running the Extron Control app mirrors the touchpanel interface, giving users the option to wirelessly control the AV systems from anywhere within the facilities.
Wake Forest University School of Business Farrell Hall Gets an AV Refresh with Extron Control & NAV Pro AV over IP
Wake Forest University School of Business is the graduate business school of Wake Forest University in Winston-Salem, North Carolina. Existing AV distribution and control systems in Farrell Hall had reached end-of-life and needed to be replaced. An Extron NAV® Pro AV over IP network replaced existing AV matrix switching in an auditorium and multiple classrooms. AV over IP offered cost savings through reuse of existing network cable infrastructure. Furthermore, the scalability of AV over IP aligned with future expansion plans. The AV control system was upgraded to Extron IP Link® Pro control processors and TouchLink® Pro touchpanels. The touchpanel user interfaces duplicated the look and feel of the control systems being replaced, meeting a key goal to make the transition a seamless experience for everyone.
From Classroom to Future-Ready Teaching Laboratory - An Inside Look at The Education University of Hong Kong
The Education University of Hong Kong is the only government-funded institute in Hong Kong that specializes in teacher education. The University created an E-Learning and teaching laboratory to study interactive and flexible learning styles and to experiment with technology tools and resources. Extron DTP® CrossPoint® matrix switching and NAV® Pro AV over IP work together to provide AV signal switching, signal extension, and cable management. The AV system is operated from a TouchLink® Pro touchpanel on the lectern that works with an IPCP Pro xi Series control processor. The intuitive touchpanel interface includes all of the functionality the instructor needs.
Ranging from primary education to major universities with hundreds of AV-enabled instructional spaces, managing the efficiency of your AV assets can minimize costs and maximize utilization. Extron GlobalViewer® Enterprise provides centralized control, monitoring, and usage metrics for AV systems over the network, allowing a single help desk to monitor the performance of AV system components, provide remote support to users, and generate metrics for budget and maintenance planning.
Without the flexibility of Extron ControlScript®, the Veterans Hall AV systems would simply have not operated with the ease and versatility UNCW needed.
Our success in completing the CT-Toolbox project is partly attributable to our Computer Science and Information Technology core courses. The user-friendliness of Extron Global Scripter® and Alexa Skills Kit were a big help, as was the patient support provided by our advisors, including Extron.
This is cutting edge. I don’t know of another system anywhere that is anything like this. Everything that needs to happen can happen with the push of a button for notifications and lockdowns.
Extron provides ControlScript®, their fully-formed and well-documented Python library for use when interfacing with its equipment, making working with devices such as touchpanels and switchers at Lawrenceville School very easy.
One Control System to Rule Them All University of North Carolina – Wilmington, Veterans Hall
UNCW’s Veterans Hall is filled with flexible spaces that support active learning and HyFlex Education. These spaces are served by an AV system built around an Extron NAV® Pro AV over IP network spanning six floors and 205 endpoints. To develop the control architecture for this AV system, UNCW used Extron ControlScript®, a deployment utility tool that allows AV developers to deploy and debug control system programs created using Microsoft Visual Studio®. ControlScript enabled designers to create meaningful variable names that could be reused across numerous control systems in the building. ControlScript also enabled the creation of a client-server relationship between the control processors in multiple classrooms and the central control room. The flexibility of Extron ControlScript made it possible for Veterans Hall AV systems to reliably operate with ease and versatility.
Student Project at Kutztown University Has Amazon Alexa Talking to Extron Classroom AV Systems
When considering possibilities for a senior project, a small team of students at Pennsylvania’s Kutztown University created a pilot project to further the school’s strong commitment to the Americans with Disabilities Act. Their project, dubbed Classroom Technology (CT) Toolbox, controls classroom AV systems with Alexa voice commands. The user speaks into an Alexa Echo™ device. Alexa software translates the speech to data strings that are passed to skill application code, called Lambda Functions. The Lambda Functions trigger hardware actions. Lambda Functions are written in Python using Extron Global Scripter®. The students demonstrated CT-Toolbox successfully to faculty evaluators, who enthusiastically gave the project a passing grade.
Extron Technology Unifies Security System Control at Mobile Alabama Schools to Make Campuses Safer
Mobile County Public School System and the City of Mobile, Alabama implemented a major security technology initiative at one of its campuses as a pathfinder for improved security districtwide. Extron worked with six other companies to transform a collection of siloed applications into a seamless, easy to operate physical security solution. The system integrates VoIP telephones, security cameras; intercoms, paging, digital signage; mass notification, color-changing lights, motion sensors; gunfire sensing; and Extron MediaLink® Plus classroom AV control panels with Teacher Assist buttons. Extron control processors, programmed with Extron programming tools, mesh all of this into a coherent system, providing software drivers that interface with APIs of other elements of the system from the different companies involved.
How Extron Programming Enhanced the AV Experience at Lawrenceville School
Lawrenceville School is a private boarding school located in central New Jersey. The school’s Abbott Dining Hall uses an Extron DTP® CrossPoint® matrix switcher with multiple DTP transmitters and receivers to route signals to projectors and displays. The system is controlled via two Extron TouchLink® pro touchpanels through the built-in IPCP Pro control processor within the matrix switcher. All of this is programmed using Extron ControlScript® and Extron Global Scripter® Integrated Development Environment. This case study is a first person account of a seasoned Python programmer’s first experience using these two Extron AV system control software tools to set up an AV system.
To simplify booking of heavily used instructional spaces, our sleek TouchLink® Scheduling Panels connect directly to popular calendaring services. A couple of screen taps or scanning a QR Code are all it takes to make on-demand reservations, or check-in, extend, and release meeting spaces. Administrators can use room usage and meeting data from each touchpanel to analyze activity patterns and trends. All this, with no annual subscription fee.
The esports lounge is in high demand for both gaming and teaching. We made the lounge bookable through our 25Live® scheduling system. A 10" TLS scheduling touchpanel at the entrance shows booking and occupancy status at a glance.
Our conference rooms are booked through an Office 365™ reservation system. TLS 1025 scheduling panels are located at conference room entrances. Professors and staff can reserve the rooms from their desks, or right at the scheduling panels. The scheduling panels have red and green backlighting to indicate at-a-glance whether rooms are occupied or available.
Extron TouchLink® room scheduling panels are located outside the doors of all teaching spaces and are integrated with UNC’s 25Live® scheduling application. They have red-green backlighting to show room occupancy status. Users can make reservations at the scheduling panels, from a desk computer, or smartphone. People appreciate the scheduling panels; not only for making room reservations, but to avoid opening a door and inadvertently distracting a class that’s in session.
Extron AV Levels-Up Esports at Cal State University Channel Islands
Cal State University Channel Islands created an esports lounge where all students, including members of its Dolphins esports club, can compete in intercollegiate esports league tournaments and play recreationally. Extron products have key roles in the esports lounge’s AV switching, distribution, control, and audio infrastructure. Extron Room Agent™ room scheduling software, linked to CSU’s 25Live® room scheduling system, allows efficient booking of the lounge so that everyone has equitable access to the lounge for gaming and teaching. a TLS room scheduling touchpanel at the lounge entrance shows booking details for the room and indicates with green or red backlighting whether the room is occupied. The room can be reserved from the touchpanel, from a computer, a smartphone, or tablet.
Extron NAV Pro AV over IP Helps Tie it All Together for Medical School in the Bahamas
Western Atlantic University School of Medicine in Freeport, Bahamas, chose NAV® Pro AV over IP to distribute and switch audiovisual teaching content between sources and destinations across its campus. ShareLink® Pro 1100 wireless presentation systems allow wireless sharing from portable BYOD devices. SMP 351 streaming media processors perform AV content recording and streaming. IP Link® Pro xi control processors and TouchLink® Pro touchpanels provide the intuitive AV system operator interface. Conference room bookings are managed by the Extron room scheduling system, consisting of Extron Room Agent™ software and TLS room scheduling touchpanels linked to the school’s Office 365™ calendar services.
NAV Pro AV over IP Is the Core of UNC’s Multimedia-Rich Curtis Media Center
The University of North Carolina Curtis Media Center features a broadcast studio and control room, a podcast studio, a makerspace, and two HyFlex classrooms. The building’s audiovisual system relies on Extron NAV® Pro as the AV backbone. Extron SMP 352 streaming media processors. integrated with Panopto® stream, broadcast, and record presentations. ShareLink® Pro presentation systems allow people to share AV content wirelessly from portable devices. TouchLink® Pro touchpanels and IP Link® Pro xi control processors provide an intuitive AV system operator interface. Extron TLS room scheduling touchpanels at the doors of all teaching spaces allow users to reserve rooms from the panels themselves, from a computer, smartphone, or tablet. Extron’s Room Agent™ software is integrated with UNC’s 25Live® scheduling application. People appreciate being able to easily reserve rooms. They also like the TLS panel red/green backlighting that lets them unobtrusively check to see if a room is occupied.
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