The Cube: An Example for Every Innovative Campus

The challenge

The solution

These days it is essential for universities to be able to record lectures. Although attending lectures in person remains the norm, thanks to live video recordings it is no longer necessary to completely follow the entire contents of a lecture. This also makes it possible to offer lectures on demand so that students can view them again at a later date; this is certainly useful when preparing for important exams!

For the IT department it is important that the management remains easy to oversee. Because while campuses expand, this is not necessarily the case for the number of FTEs who have to manage the technology. This is done by centralising everything as much as possible, so that the management can be carried out remotely. This applies for example to the recording equipment, which is kept in a separate room. Those resources can be allocated to a specific lecture hall. For example, from 10:00 until 11:00 to lecture hall A and from 11:00 until 12:00 to lecture hall B. The microphones and cameras in the lecture halls are connected directly to the room in which the recording equipment is kept; the sound and images are made available via the network. 

The result

The recording of lectures has been greatly simplified in The Cube, both for the end user and the IT department. For example, the lecturer no longer has to find all sorts of equipment and press countless buttons when starting a lecture. This happens almost automatically using workflows.

This makes the entire recording process much more efficient, as recordings are of course not made throughout the day in all the lecture halls. What’s more, it keeps the costs down as it is not necessary to buy expensive equipment for each separate lecture hall.