Equipment Orders and Cancellations:

Please call our office to place an order. We need two working days' notice if you intend to use our equipment or services. Weekend requests require at least two weeks notice. Booking early will assure prompt delivery of your requested services. Last minute orders are difficult to fill. When you make an equipment order for the entire semester, we will deliver your request for every class. However, THIS DOES NOT INCLUDE FINALS WEEK. If you need to use equipment for your final exam, please make a separate reservation. And if you cancel your class, call us to cancel your equipment!

Reservations from Faculty Only:

We only accept orders for classroom use of technology from faculty members or department office staff. We do not take reservations from students. Students who need to reserve equipment for class delivery will be instructed to ask their professor to order the equipment from IMS for the needed date, time and location. This is for the benefit of faculty, who may not want to be surprised by a delivery of equipment for which they had not planned.

Equipment Loans:

Instructional Media Services exists solely for faculty support. We do not loan equipment to students. We have a variety of equipment available: data/video projectors, digital still cameras, digital video cameras, portable sound systems, portable lecterns with sound systems, personal listening devices for the hearing impaired, document cameras, digital audio recorders, CD/cassette players, overhead transparency projectors, laser pointers, screens and 35mm slide projectors. These items must be picked up at the office in LC-2. Advance reservations are preferred.

Users must accept financial responsibility for the borrowed equipment. They must return it in good condition, or pay to repair or replace the equipment that was damaged, lost, or stolen while in their possession. Equipment is loaned for instructional purposes on the SUNY New Paltz campus only.

Computer Carts:

When classrooms do not contain installed technology, a mobile computer cart can be delivered to most rooms. With it, faculty members can project an image from the computer or from their laptop. These carts contain a cloned computer with network connection, monitor, document camera, and a data/video projector. They are available in Humanities and CSB. IMS has a very limited supply of computer carts, so reserve one early.

Easy Laptop Connections:

Professors may easily connect their personal laptop computers to our projection equipment in most technology-equipped classrooms, and on most computer carts, through the installed Extron boxes. Please contact IMS for more information on this connection. Our staff would be glad to assist you in the proper procedures, which will not interfere with the use of the room's computer.

TV/DVDs, Transparency Projectors:

Most standard classrooms contain a TV/DVD or TV/DVD/VHS unit on a cart, an overhead transparency projector, and a screen. If equipment for your classroom is missing, please feel free to move one in from a nearby room. Please note that VHS equipment is not available in some locations now. All new videos should be purchased in DVD format.

Technical Troubles:

In case of classroom equipment malfunction, call us as soon as possible at x3630 days and x3639 evenings. For computer issues, contact Academic Computing at x3816.

Video Conferencing:

Instructional Media Services offers video conferencing facilities in Lecture Center-3A, VH-204 and LC-100. Take advantage of our convenient service for meetings, conferences, classes, or lectures. This two-way communication, using the Tandberg System, connects via IP or ISDN phone lines. Call Emily Trapp at x3634 for additional information.

Audience Response System:

The Audience Response System can turn any lecture into an interactive learning lab. It increases classroom participation and is an excellent way of gauging student's understanding, spurring discussion, and soliciting student's opinions.

Some response systems may come bundled with a new textbook. You may order one of your own, or you could use the one available to you here on campus. Quizzes, tests, games, polling, voting, team competitions, and attendance are just some of its functions. The Audience Response System is available for use in CSB Auditorium, Lecture Center Halls, or with advance notice, in any smart classroom. Students use personal wireless keypads to answer multiple-choice questions. Their responses are transferred to the system controller, and then tallied by the computer, which can instantly display the results on the projection screen for the entire class to see. For more information, view their Web site. Other software (compatible with Fleetwood Reply Systems) may be purchased separately, depending on your personal preference.

For reservations contact:

Instructional Media Services
Lecture Center 2
(845) 257-3630