Hey Craig, we in Lethbridge have had both successes and failures in this area. Whether clickers or e-textbooks, high densitiesare a real pain.
In order to ensure success we have had to deploy multiple access points in our learning spaces to the tune of 1 to 40 and turning the power levels way down. Cheers, Jeff Sent from my smartphone. Please excuse typos. -------- Original message -------- From: Craig Simons <[email protected]> Date: 2016-05-12 19:33 (GMT-07:00) To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [WIRELESS-LAN] Interactive Teaching - Top Hat, Clickers, etc Thanks for the tip Jeff. I have little control over which services get used, so at this point I'm interested how others have dealt with the expectation of at least WiFi portion "always working." This type of issue is often discussed in various ways on this forum - usually in the context of high density theatres. To me the nature of these interactive teaching tools puts a unique type of demand on the system - a demand that's very difficult to fully address with unlicensed wireless frequency. - Craig On May 12, 2016, at 5:54 PM, Jeffrey D. Sessler <[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>> wrote: Take a look at poll everywhere https://www.polleverywhere.com/ It works across a lot of services including SMS, and it has very little IT involvement. Jeff From: "[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>" <[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>> on behalf of Craig Simons <[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>> Reply-To: "[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>" <[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>> Date: Thursday, May 12, 2016 at 3:08 PM To: "[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>" <[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>> Subject: [WIRELESS-LAN] Interactive Teaching - Top Hat, Clickers, etc All, Does anyone have any stories to share about supporting emerging interactive teaching technologies, such as Top Hat<https://tophat.com/> and iClicker<https://www1.iclicker.com/>? I'm interested in how you've both deployed your classroom or lecture theatres as well as how you been able to manage end-user/departmental/professor expectations. My own personal bias is that bursty "vote now" wireless traffic in a large lecture theatre scenario in a BYOD environment - even with the slickest wireless deployment - will never achieve 100% success. However, I'd like to be either proven wrong or comforted in my well founded suspicions... Regards, Craig SFU SIMON FRASER UNIVERSITY Network Services Craig Simons Network Operations Manager Phone: 778-782-8036 Cell: 604-649-7977 Email: [email protected]<mailto:[email protected]> Twitter: simonscraig<http://www.twitter.com/simonscraig> ********** Participation and subscription information for this EDUCAUSE Constituent Group discussion list can be found at http://www.educause.edu/groups/. ********** Participation and subscription information for this EDUCAUSE Constituent Group discussion list can be found at http://www.educause.edu/groups/. ********** Participation and subscription information for this EDUCAUSE Constituent Group discussion list can be found at http://www.educause.edu/groups/. ********** Participation and subscription information for this EDUCAUSE Constituent Group discussion list can be found at http://www.educause.edu/groups/.
