From the console, instructors have an option of four media sources. There are two audio tape decks, a VCR, and a video projection stand. Audio and video sources can be used together. Instructors can also control and interact with their students from the console through a number of functions. Instructors can monitor and intercom individual students, pair two or more students together, speak to all students at one time, create two different groups, each with their own media source, and record their student's voices.
Instructors can also lock the student decks and control all of the stations from the console.
This facility is heavily used and reservations may be difficult to make. Many reservations are made as early as six to eight months in advance. Before their first session, instructors must attend an orientation workshop. All of the audio tape decks in the lab offer a dual track system which allows students to record their voice onto a tape without erasing anything that had been previously recorded. This function is useful for recording questions and answers or responding to pre-recorded language excercises.