Tidebreak

Tidebreak’s ClassSpot™ addresses the growing need for flexible, technology-enabled classrooms with advanced interaction capabilities. ClassSpot supports emerging student-centered pedagogical approaches while at the same time simplifying AV system requirements to help reduce costs.

Limitations of Modern Technology Classrooms

Technology systems in most of today’s classrooms are optimized for faculty presentation. Students often have little or no opportunity to interact with digital content that is used to anchor in-class discussions. Some of the chief limitations of traditional classroom systems include:

• Only one person in the room can display content on the main screen
• Students can’t “work at the board” from their seats
• It is difficult to explore topics in unplanned directions
• It’s hard to mix multimedia information and “analog” content
• The lecture recording does not capture informal content shared in class

ClassSpot Enables Greater Student Engagement

ClassSpot-equipped rooms enable any student to instantly share their work or digital content they find online. They can send files or websites over the network to any large display system in the classroom. Faculty or student can easily interact with the material on the display screen by simply moving their mouse on to a screen to take control.

Using ClassSpot, on any public display screen in the classroom students might:

• Open one or more web pages to support a point they are making, allowing others to explore links from the page to further develop their own opinions
• Take turns translating foreign language passages, perhaps even offering competing interpretations for particular sections
• Manipulate a simulated financial model spreadsheet, breaking off in small teams to explore the impact of changing assumptions and then showing their results to the rest of the class
• Digitally highlight relevant features of a medical image to emphasize features relevant to a clarifying question they want to ask

ClassSpot automatically creates a session record of the materials students (and faculty) have shared in class, a record that can be stored on personal laptops or in an online course repository.

A Cohesive Solution for Formal and Informal Learning Spaces

Together with TeamSpot™, Tidebreak’s market-leading solution for informal team learning spaces, ClassSpot delivers the advanced capabilities, ease of use, and system flexibility that academic institutions require to create state-of-the-art learning environments. The consistent look and feel across these two products enables students to easily move their activities from classroom to study room, accelerating student adoption. It also reduces total cost of ownership by minimizing administrative effort and staff training.

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• ClassSpot Features