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Mission
As the unit within the Office of Classroom Management
charged with providing presentation technology expertise,
the mission of Classroom Technical Services is to deliver
outstanding products and services, which continually advance
the efficient and effective implementation of presentation
technologies.
Services
Classroom Technical Services (CTS) is the technical department
of the Office
of Classroom Management. It is the University
of Minnesota 's primary technical support organization
for classroom audio, video, projection and presentation
systems, serving over 200 university departments. Classroom
Technical Services is an Internal Service Organization (ISO)
that offers a wide range of competitively priced technical services
and the UofM Projection Capable Classroom Standard installation
to the University.
Staffed with knowledgeable engineers, technicians, and support
personnel, CTS handles the entire range of technical needs in
the classroom, including system design, planning, installation,
maintenance, operation and repair. CTS Engineers transition
system designs into budget estimates and scheduling projections.
They manage project installations according to cost and completion
deadlines. Project scale can range from single room to integrated
building systems.
CTS is a premier source for classroom
technology, from conception to completion
and beyond.
Benefits
Classroom Technical Service has installed
more than 220 Projection Capable Classrooms for
the Office of Classroom Management (OCM) in Central Classrooms
across the Twin Cities Campus. These standard projection
capable room systems have received such outstanding acceptance
from faculty and students that 100 systems have been
requested to be installed for other university departments for
their own instructional, meeting and conference spaces. Faculty
can go to any projection capable classroom and find a reliable
system with an identical interface. The confidence that the UofM
community has in these technology systems comes from over one
half million classroom hours of operation, feedback and continual
refinement.
Strengths
- Technology that is easy to use, reliable
and cost effective
- The Projection
Capable Classroom Standard
- The cost savings of standardization
- Reliable systems with identical interfaces/operating
protocols
- Dependable
and value added services
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