John Wagstaff, CIO El Camino College and Board Member CISOA (California Community
College Chief Information Systems Officers Association)
“Utelogy is a better user interface for faculty. It doesn’t make them think about
the technology. It's easy-to-use transparency makes faculty secure in the knowledge
that they can use the room’s technology and help is there when they need it. As
smart classrooms get smarter, they touch the network and IT is dealing with the
aftermath of the rapid expansion of these smart classrooms from the last several
years. Utelogy’s control and management solution is a non-proprietary, enterprise
IT solution that solves that AV problem. We will now host control and help services
for every classroom from a server cluster here on the main campus, delivering those
services transparently on virtual desktops to the classrooms, allowing faculty to
simply teach.”
Howard Story, Faculty Coordinator of Media Services and Distance Education for El
Camino College and Board Member of DETCHE (Directors Educational Technology California
Higher Education)
“The college was looking at ways we could leverage our existing IT infrastructure.
Utelogy’s solution makes the smart classroom technology transparent so faculty can
focus on what they do best, and it overlays nicely on our existing IT infrastructure.
Utelogy gives everyone peace of mind – faculty because they can just teach, IT because
they can embrace the solution as an architecture they know and trust, my team because
they can better support the classroom and the faculty.” Spring 2011
Stephanie Glick, Director past Academic Technology at Mount St. Mary’s College,
Learning Spaces and Technology Consultant, Doctoral Candidate at Pepperdine University
“[the 90 classrooms] are a delightful mixture of sleek, sexy devices and platforms
that are faculty friendly, pedagogically engaging, supportable (by a small staff),
sustainable and adaptive. Faculty love the Utelogy system and are requesting the
Utelogy classrooms over the old ones.
Eric Kieselhorst, Director Media Services at Mount Saint Mary’s College
“I decided to upgrade the Proxima projector in H303 to an Epson 6110i (I've never
been happy with the Proxima). Simply stated, I was able to swap the ceiling-mounted
projector AND reconfigure the Utelogy system in 30 minutes flat. In my almost 20
years at the Mount, no swap/reprogram has ever been that easy and quick. And given
the fact that I had three room repairs to do & three AV delivery\setups to get done
by 7am, that made my life a whole lot easier.”
Russ Bowden, Director Media Services, 28,000 student Santa Rosa Junior College
“Do the math, this solution has saved us well over $100,000 from our initial investment.
And that’s in 18 months.” “The typical classroom’s media systems (pictured left)
make up the “New Chalkboard” of our times. Unlike many other commercial products
that require real programmers to change layout and accommodate changes in equipment,
SRJC Media staff can easily do “programming” and changing of technology components
in rooms (Projector every 5-6 years) and the required programming and user interface
changes are done in minutes in-house – saving the college thousands every year.”
Faculty from Santa Rosa consistently rate the Utelogy solution as the easiest and
most transparent room control interface they’ve used. These are from a survey Russ
did in April.
- “the new dashboard system is AWESOME, 100 x better than the old, very easy to use,
and I am not a techie, thank you , thank you, thank you, susan w”
- “I LOVE the
new set-up. Thank you for being so responsive to the needs of instructors. And thanks
to the great Media Services folks who are always so gracious.”
- “I never saw any training materials (that I recall). Had no problem using it. Much
easier.”
- “I used the system for the first time on PDA day and had nothing to compare it to
but I thought the coaching I got from Ken was perfect and I used several modes successfully
switching back and forth...it went well. Thanks!”
- “I love the system and not being technologically inclined it was amazingly easy
to use.”
Ross Jerozal, CTS-D, Principal Consultant Charles M. Salter Associates, Inc.
"I can honestly say that this solution is road tested. It’s been out for 5 plus
years and working. It's worked in simple classrooms and in complex multi-screen
distance learning environments, so it's been put through some paces in really challenging
environments."
Marc Oehlman, Acting Associate Director, Center for Academic Technologies (CAT),
California State University Monterey Bay
“We weren’t just looking for a tool to manage AV assets in all of our instructional
spaces, we wanted to be able to improve the efficiency and level of all of our services
– from physical environment to health and safety to help-desk and more. To do this
we needed a solution that was innovative, extensible, service-oriented, and most
critical, understood our approach to IT at CSUMB.”