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Background
Edith Cowan University keeps investing in the practical side of teaching — the rooms themselves. At the Joondalup campus, four teaching spaces were identified for an AV refresh to better suit day-to-day classes, presentations and hybrid delivery, where some of the cohort is in the room and some is not.
The brief was straightforward: rooms a lecturer can walk into and use with confidence, built to ECU's standard teaching AV specification so the same approach can be applied again elsewhere on campus.
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The challenge
The existing systems varied in performance and usability from room to room. A lecturer teaching across several spaces had to work out the controls again each time, which cost minutes at the start of every class.
Audio clarity was inconsistent, and accessibility needed attention so students with hearing needs could follow a lecture as easily as anyone else. Whatever went in had to be repeatable across all four rooms and align with ECU's existing standard rather than becoming a one-off.
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The solution
All four spaces were built identically.
- A high-brightness Panasonic projector in each room, sized for teaching spaces that can't always be darkened.
- A Crestron control platform with the same layout on every panel, so operation doesn't change between rooms.
- Mipro wireless microphones for even voice reinforcement and freedom to move around the room instead of being anchored to the lectern.
- Williams Sound hearing augmentation integrated into each system, feeding room audio directly to students who need it.
Because the four rooms are specified the same way, ECU can support and extend them as a single standard rather than four separate systems.
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The outcome
Staff move between the refreshed rooms knowing they will find the same layout and the same controls, which has taken the setup fumbling out of the first few minutes of a class.
Visuals are brighter and more legible, audio is clearer and more evenly distributed, and hearing support is built in rather than bolted on afterwards. The rooms handle in-person and mixed-mode teaching equally well, and lecturers spend their attention on delivering content rather than on the equipment in front of them.
ECU now has a proven room standard to apply to the next round of teaching spaces, with a known specification, known behaviour and a known result.
