Classroom Technology Support - Equipment and Software

• Audience Response System (ARS) - remote polling via handsets and a formatted PowerPoint presentation
• Wired or Wireless Clickers
• Laptops - Windows 7 or Macintosh OS X
• Lavaliere - Wireless
• Microphones - Wired or Wireless
• Multimedia PC Cart
• Pointer Devices
• Overhead and Slide Projectors

Podcast Recording is also available. All special equipment listed here must be requested via the Resource 25 WebViewer form. It is not necessary to request any equipment that is already standard in the room.

There are currently no fees for reserving and using equipment provided by Classroom Technology Support, however all rooms booked are reported back to Columbia Finance for charge back to departments. We ask that you please do not make unnecessary requests.

We are continuing to upgrade and standardize all locations so that faculty, instructors and presenters can become easily familiar with the equipment in any room. Please see our Room List and Details page for current information.

Standard Software Installed on Podium/Instructor Computers

Most podium and instructor computers run Windows, with Mac Minis in some locations; see the Room List and Details page for specific equipment in each room. Installed software on these computers is standardized and includes programs for presentations, web browsing and media playback. Non-standard software can be installed when requested as per Classroom Technology Support procedures, please see below for more information.

For a full list of software installed on other public systems in the computer labs, classrooms and Library in the Hammer building, please click here.

Mac Mini computers have Perian software installed, which supports playback of the following multimedia file types:

• File formats: AVI, DIVX, FLV, MKV, GVI, VP6, and VFW
• Video types: MS-MPEG4 v1 & v2, DivX, 3ivx, H.264, Sorenson H.263, FLV/Sorenson Spark, FSV1, VP6, H263i, VP3, HuffYUV, FFVHuff, MPEG1 & MPEG2 Video, Fraps, Snow, NuppelVideo, Techsmith Screen Capture, DosBox Capture
• Audio types: Windows Media Audio v1 & v2, Flash ADPCM, Xiph Vorbis (in Matroska), and MPEG Layer I & II Audio, True Audio, DTS Coherent Acoustics, Nellymoser ASAO
• AVI support for AAC, AC3 Audio, H.264, MPEG4, VBR MP3 and more
• Subtitle support for SSA/ASS, SRT, SAMI

Additional software can be installed on podium, instructor, and/or student computers when all of the following steps have been met:

• The software must be Windows 7 compatible. This is the only operating system that is in use on podium, classroom and lab computers.
• The request must be made at least two weeks in advance via the online Software Installation form.
• The requestor must provide proof of proper licensing and installation media.

Please check with your department or school if you do not have information about licensing of the software you would like installed. Information about Columbia and CUMC site licensed software can be found on the Software Downloads page; most other software requires that the individual department has purchased proper licensing.