Once Wheaton College purchases media equipment, it is maintain by the media department using the assigned maintenance budget and personnel. Exceptions include outdated equipment and very expensive equipment. Often equipment can be immediately substituted for similar equipment in good working order. Capital equipment purchases at a standard classroom level should occur on a prescribed schedule from the media department. A standard classroom is equipped with an overhead projector, cart, screen, VCR and TV connected to campus cable.
Professors provide the laptop computer to use with the data projector.
A Smart classroom is equipped with a dedicated PC permanently connected to the data projector and computer network. This allows the professors to use a minimum amount of time setting up the technology. Our goal is that the mechanics of setting up the technology never takes more than two minutes of the class time. Media Resources maintains a working list of the media resources of classrooms on our homepage under the heading Instructional Technology, Classroom Resources.