The Studio control room is provided with digital video capture and a non-linear editing system. The studio is designed to be user friendly for non-professionals. It is provided with teleprompting, diffused lighting, and is equipped for dual hosting. The studio is provided with PC interlink to the video recording system as well as to student monitors. The studio is set up as a small personal instruction classroom with four computer equipped student desks, scanners, printers, microphones, and speakers.
Instruction is provided in two specially equipped two-way interactive TV facilities.
These are operated from a common control room with dual controls in the classrooms and in the control room. One facility is equipped with a large screen student monitor for enhanced viewing of instruction presented from remote sites. The other facility is provided with computers at each student desk and machines for transcription. Distance Education maintains and operates a satellite downlink system. The system is interfaced along with VCRs and a DVD player to a cable system to send video and audio to the Distance Education classrooms and Distance Education cable system between buildings.