Specifications

Learning Spaces Guidelines
AV & Teaching Station: 18
The interface design should follow best practice for touch controlled
devices (e.g. smartphones).
above: example control panel design
A ‘Blank Screen’/‘Show Screen’ control should be provided to blank
the main projection/display. This control should not blank the image
on the teacher’s display so that is possible to use the facility to
prepare upcoming materials out of view of the class.
All learning spaces equipped with a teaching station should contain
a fixed personal computer configured to the UCL standard for
teaching machines.
The PC should have a wired keyboard and mouse to avoid issues of
depleted batteries in wireless units.
The aspect ratio of the projector image, or large screen displays if
these are present, should be 16:10. The monitor for the PC should
have an aspect ratio that matches this aspect ratio.
The resolution of the graphic output of the computer should match
the native resolution of both the computer monitor and the projector
image/ large screen displays. This should ensure an equally sharp
image on both the projected image and the monitor.
Functionality to allow ‘side-by-side’ simultaneous display of two
sources (e.g. computer feed and visualiser feed) are of limited
value because of the resultant portrait orientation of each image. If
simultaneous display of two sources is required in a particular space
then the preferable solution, in spaces large enough to permit it, is to
provide two screens side-by-side.
The energy management and updater options on the fixed personal
computers in learning spaces should be configured to:
Not activate a screen saver
Not auto log-out after a period of activity
Not display on-screen notifications about system or
application updates available
TASK
Resident
PC within
Teaching
Station
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