Specifications

Learning Spaces Guidelines
Appendices and Further information: 51
Appendix 4: Example teaching station user instructions
AV: Quick Start Guide
To turn on the AV equipment:
Touch the small
panel on the teaching
station to wake the
control system.
Touch the panel
again to access the
controls.
When you select
an input source the
projector/main display
will turn on.
To use the PC:
Select the PC icon on the control panel.
If the PC image is not projected/shown on the
monitor ensure the PC is turned on by checking for a
green light on the PC (located in the equipment rack)
and that the monitor is turned on (blue light in the
bottom right corner of the monitor).
Log onto the PC using your UCL credentials or the
guest login facility.
To use your own laptop:
Connect your laptop using cables either the VGA
lead (provided) or an HDMI lead (not provided). If you
require audio playback from the laptop connect the
3.5mm jack lead into the headphone output of the
laptop.
Press the LAPTOP button on the touch-screen panel.
Ensure the laptop is displaying via its external output.
On most laptops this is indicated by a symbol on
one of the function keys at the top of the keyboard.
On Window laptops it is most commonly FN+F5 or
FN+F8. Toggle through the display options until the
computer displays on both the main display and
the laptop screen. On Apple laptops go to ‘System
Preferences’ then ‘Displays’ and finally ‘Arrangement’
to enable ‘Mirror Displays’.
To use the video player to play optical discs:
Touch the DVD button on the control panel. The type
of video player provided currently varies as VHS is
phased out. The optical disc players provided can
play most types of disc including:
UK BluRay
UK DVD
CD audio discs
Standard playback control buttons will appear on the
contol panel.
To use the document camera:
If the document camera
arm has been lowered,
raise the arm fully using
light grey tab on the
arm.
Press the power button
on document camera
and then touch the DOC
CAM button on the
control panel.
You can use dry erase
pens on the writing
surface.
Problems or
Faults: Call AV
Service Desk on
46677 or send
an e-mail to
servicedesk@ucl.
ac.uk
Control panel
PC monitor
Document camera
Writing area
Video player
PC
Laptop cable
Recessed visualiser instructions Version 1 – October 2013
above: example teaching station user instructions (front)