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Style 1 - Horizontal style

A lecturer, who wish to use slides on one side and note taking on another on dual screens arranged horizontally, can use the following arrangement (example: Prof. Don Taylor, Commutative Algebra in Semester 1 2010)

AMX Control Panel
  • From the icons on the top part of panel, choose "Laptop". Press on icon "Side R" for the external display to appear there. (This is for instant feedback in the room)

Mac Mini (gridlect)
  • Display settings:
    1. Right click on desktop and select "Screen resolution"
    2. Ensure that the extended desktop is enabled.
    3. Wacom tablet should be screen 1, with screen 2 appearing on the right; as one large horizontal display.
  • Taskbar
    • Ensure taskbar uses small icons. Right-click on taskbar and choose "Properties". Make sure "Use small icons" checkbox is ticked. Click Apply and close.
  • Hotkey application
    • Stop all hotkey applications. Click the show hidden icons button on the taskbar. Right click on each Green icon with a white "H" on it and click "exit".
    • Start the 4 scripts in the directory "Libraries/Documents/Autosetup_gridlect/" don_scrollup.ahk, don_scrolldown.ahk, don_scrollright.ahk, don_scrollleft.ahk (double click them)
  • OneNote 2007
    1. Open OneNote 2007
    2. Create a new Section using File menu. Save as Don_slidesXX
  • Adobe Reader
    1. The presenter will provide a PDF. They will place the lecture in a shared drive setup on gridlect.
    2. Open the PDF using Adobe Reader.
    3. Goto File->Print (Ctrl-P)
    4. Select the printer "Print to OneNote 2007"
    5. Select the properties button for the printer
    6. Use custom paper size WxH=15.08 x 10.8, Landscape. Exit this window.
    7. Uncheck the box "Autorotate and center".
    8. Click "Print"
  • OneNote 2007
    1. OneNote will automatically begin importing the pages of the pdf (aligned vertically)
    2. Important:: Enter the text for the Page title as "Page 1"
    3. Enter fullscreen mode. Press F11. (Note: IF it doesn't work, click the icon next to help, -OR- click "View->Full Screen")
    4. Set page zoom to 221%
    5. Make sure OneNote IS NOT maximized! Use the automatic window resize function "Libraries/Documents/Autosetup_gridlect/don_enlarge_window" to stretch OneNote border. If OneNote is not stretched, perform the following:
      • Using the mouse from gridlect, or a remote VNC control session. Drag the OneNote application window such that it stretches across both screens. (maximise does not apply to both screens)
    6. Use the automatic placement function "Libraries/Documents/Autosetup_gridlect/don_move_slides_after_import" to import slides. If it doesn't work, perform the following:
      • In OneNote, Select all objects (Ctrl-A or Edit->Select->All)
      • Use the icon on the upper left of the first slide to move all slides to the right. (use the second screen as a guide) align the top of the slides with the screen.
  • Keypad test
    • Make sure the keypad is plugged in to the USB extension, the blue light indicates it is on. Otherwise press the numlock key.
    • In OneNote, draw horizontal lines at the top and bottom of the visible screen using the wacom.
    • Press the "Down arrow" button on the keypad. The mouse should be moving around and scrolling up.
    • Repeat the drawing of lines at top/bottom of screen.
    • Press "Up arrow" button on the keypad. The mouse should also be moving to scroll up. At this point you should see that the previous screen borders appear as drawn earlier. Check that the scroll down is working correctly: Use the mouse to scoll a little to observe the boundaries of two pages, the gap should be at most two lines (ruled lines in OneNote).
    • Pressing the "Down arrow" again should move to a new page regardless of which page is visible or whichever page was last edited. The scroll up function allows the lecturer to move back to previous slides for finalising editing.
    • If any of the tests fail, then the lecturer can use the half page scroll button shown in OneNote toolbar in fullscreen mode appearing as the last item in the toolbar (on the right).

  • TightVNC
    • If the machine has been rebooted the server must be initialised manually. From start menu navigate and choose "Launch Tight VNC server".
    • An icon in the taskbar should appear to indicate it is running (may have to click little arrow next to time).
    • To check if the server is running use another machine to connect. The IP of gridlect is gridlect.maths.usyd.edu.au or 129.78.68.239. Viewonly password is "mathconf"
Whiteboard PC (gridwbrd)
  • Close all windows
  • Click on the "Tt" icon in the quick launch taskbar. (This is the automatic setup of launching VNC clients).
  • IF it fails, perform the following:
    • An icon on desktop is a saved VNC connection that will have saved settings to view the gridlect PC as viewonly and CoRRE encoding.
    • Open one instance and set this to full screen.
    • To get out of the full screen mode the escape key can be used, but this can only be done via VNC client to this PC.
  • Exit this mode AFTER the lecture using the automated script from the AG machine called: "gridwbrd_shutdown.bat"
Access Grid PC (gridroom)
  • Launch the Access Grid client on main gridroom PC.
  • Join the session "SMS USydney" and always enable "Talk" from RAT window.
  • Announce the lecture being delivered and the VNC session details for the whiteboard being "gridwbrd.maths.usyd.edu.au" password "mathconf"
  • After more participants enter, ensure they are able to speak, listen and see the presenter (or you). Use Access Grid RAT controls to adjust microphone, speaker for individual institutions first versus the global setting.

AFTER the session
  • AG machine
    • On Desktop run: "gridwbrd_shutdown.bat"
    • Shutdown access grid
  • Mac mini
    • Ensure that the OneNote document is saved and close OneNote
    • End all scripts for the page up/down/right/left functions.
    • Mouse is placed on charger
    • Switch off screen of wacom tablet.
  • Room
    • Turn air conditioning off

Updated on Oct 15, 2010 by Masahiro Takatsuka (Version 21)

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CHECKLIST FOR LECTURE STYLE 1.doc - on Oct 15, 2010 by Choon Ng (Version 9)