Video Conferencing Facilities

ITS maintains a classroom and a seminar room (SSW-2667, SSW-2649, AH1113F) for transmission of live two-way interactive video and audio. Faculty may teach students at SDSU and at remote sites (IVC, other CSU campuses, and elsewhere) simultaneously from one of these rooms. Videoconferencing also provides opportunities for participation in seminars, meetings and discussions with professional colleagues at IVC and other CSU campuses or at state, national and international sites. In order to facilitate a successful teaching/learning experience with this unique mode of instruction, ITS provides orientation to the facility and instructional and technical support for those using it.

Hints for Faculty Using Facility

  • Wear dark, solid colors
  • Avoid bright colors and patterns

PowerPoint Considerations Checklist

  • will degrade over CODEC
  • avoid transitions
  • large "safe" area
  • 24pt minimum font
  • use sans serif fonts (e.g. Arial, Helvetica)
  • use italics sparingly
  • light background with dark text is good
  • no gradients
  • post on Bb or email to far end
  • no drop shadows
  • use universal access feature on Mac to adjust (+/-) font size
  • encourage using Doc camera rather than white board

Using the TV-Safe Powerpoint Background

Download the TV-Safe PowerPoint Background

Adding the Background Image

  1. With your presentation open, go to Format in the top menu and choose Slide Background.
  2. At the bottom of this Background box is a pull-down menu that has a color shading it.
  3. Click this pull-down menu and choose Fill Effects
  4. Click the Picture button on the upper right-hand corner
  5. Click Select Picture
  6. Browse to and select the TV-Safe PowerPoint background, TVCutoff.jpg
  7. Click OK
  8. Click Apply to All

Now this background image should be seen on all your slides (if not covered by a large graphic)

Resize Slide Objects

Resize slide objects such as text, bullets and images so that information that should be seen by the student is located inside this yellow border.

Removing the Border

When all your slide objects are resized, the background (border image) can be removed using the following procedure.

  • With your presentation open, go to Format in the top menu and choose Slide Background.
  • At the bottom of this Background box is a pull-down menu that has a color shading it.
  • Click on this and choose the white square (color white)
  • Click Apply to All

This should remove your background border image.