• Classroom Support Services
    A woodworking IT crew? Entrepreneurial spirit reigns in Classroom Support Services

    UW Today | 7/20/11
    Classroom Support Services is turning its entrepreneurial skills into a major institutional asset, improving the technological infrastructure in a growing number of classrooms while offering high-quality service at a cost well below what outside contractors would charge.

    Scheduling classrooms: Balancing multiple needs for 'a miracle' every quarter

    U Week | 10/28/10
    The UW has thousands of class sections filling hundreds of rooms every day, all quarter, all year. How are all those lecture and lab classes scheduled? Classroom Support Services’ Roberta Hopkins is quoted.

    Budget cuts swell class sizes at UW

    Seattle Times | 1/27/10
    There are 700 students who pack professor Toby Bradshaw’s introductory biology class at the University of Washington, up from 400 students last year. It’s one example of how higher-education budget cuts are playing out in university classrooms across the state. Classroom Support Services’ clicker technology is mentioned.

    It's Not Your Father's Classroom Any More

    Columns Magazine | September 2009
    Using Twitter, blogs, laptops, podcasts and other virtual tools, the UW is making the classroom experience better and easier—no matter where you are. UAA’s Classroom Support Services is included in this feature.

    Mary Gates Hall getting tech upgrade, thanks to Gates family

    University Week | 1.8.09
    While students were taking a break over the holidays, the employees of Classroom Support Services’ Information Technology Group were hard at work beginning what will be a transformation of 14 classrooms in Mary Gates Hall. When they finish at the end of summer, all those rooms will be equipped for state-of-the-art screencasting, and five of them will also support videoconferencing.

    Classroom clickers here to stay

    The Daily | 04/10/08
    As recently as four years ago, professors looking for audience response technology were responsible for it themselves.

    Move over, podcasting -- screencasting's a growing trend

    University Week | 01/24/08
    Podcasting is so yesterday, pedagogically speaking. Today it’s all about video, or as the cognoscenti call it here, screencasting. And as with the earlier generation of audio production, the UW is in the forefront of providing instructors with the tools to make video happen without lifting a finger.

    Podcats a big hit at local colleges

    SEATTLE TIMES | 04.06.06
    Seattle Times reports on podcasting, a Classroom Support Services offering …

    UW's downloadable lectures have iPods playing a new tune

    SEATTLE P-I | October 31, 2005
    On Mike Jensen’s playlist: Oceanography 102. Along with more entertaining tunes, the University of Washington senior has downloaded his instructor’s lectures to his iPod. Now he can learn all the about the world’s oceans at home, in the gym or anywhere else on campus …

    Students get class lectures on demand, thanks to podcasts

    UNIVERSITY WEEK | October 20, 2005
    A pilot project now under way is a big step toward the goal of "anytime, anywhere learning." Classroom Support Services is running a pilot project to podcast lectures in three Kane Hall classes…