Benefits of an Auto-Tracking Camera in the Classroom

Perfect Combination of Auto-Tracking Technology and a Compact PTZ Camera.

Training has changed drastically in the most recent decade or thereabouts. Never again are homerooms simply physical areas where understudies come, plunk down, and tune in to their talks while taking notes. Study halls are presently unique and on the web and accessible to students everywhere throughout the world. The innovation that is currently accessible to communicate or stream study halls around the world has been an enormously positive change in the realm of training.

An auto-following camera is a robotized camera that is situated in space to catch an educator as they move during their introductions or talks. They are normally utilized in advanced education for instructors to catch their exercises by means of video with the goal that understudies can track with live or watch the talks utilizing learning the board framework where the educator transfers their notes and the video/sound that is recorded is additionally accessible for understudies to audit.

MANPOWER NOT REQUIRED

The best part about an auto-tracking camera is that it is easy to set up and once you do, it operates without requiring time or money. In education, where budgets are tight and help can be hard to find, having a person dedicated to holding or maneuvering a camera to record a lecture is not efficient. An auto-tracking camera takes the need for a person to monitor it out of the equations which saves money and frees up people’s time. Many universities find that the auto-tracking cameras pay for themselves within the first 12-16 months of operation.

CATERS TO STUDENT’S NEEDS

The modern student is very different than the students of old. To attract students today you need to offer flexibility that not only appeals to people’s individual learning styles but their lifestyles as well. Offering lectures, recorded or live, online is a huge competitive advantage that will appeal to today’s students who want more choice in education. Students entering college today have experience with technology and online learning management systems from the high school level.

The K-12 education system has been using the “flipped classroom” techniques that bring the homework into class and deliver the lectures via video for students to learn from at home. This trend continues to become more and more important as higher education modernizes and improves its ability to deliver education online.

IT ALLOWS SCHOOLS TO EXPAND THEIR REACH

With so many education institutions out there today, there is a growing awareness that many times there will be a finite number of potential students who can attend the institution. Just because they cannot be there physically though does not mean they cannot become a part of your educational system. Offering online video classes allows institutions to greatly expand their reach and attract students from all over the world. An additional benefit is these students do not require the physical resources that on-site students do.

AUTOMATE CAMERA OPERATIONS

We have found auto-tracking cameras alleviate the need for educational institutions to rely on their IT team or hired student camera operators because these cameras are robotic and it automatically follows each instructor through facial and motion tracking. The camera remains focused on whiteboard spaces where the lecture is happening. Proving how easy the SimplTrack 2 is to use, one designated person can manage multiple classrooms and remotely view each classroom as needed.

RECORDING LECTURES AUTOMATICALLY

For recording lectures or presentations, the SimplTrack2 can be integrated with an institution’s online learning management system. Some of those cameras include onboard memory, allowing the storage of up to four hours of 1080p @ 60 frames per second worth of recordings. Institutions can ensure a student never misses a lecture by having all of their classes’ lectures automatically recorded. Recorded lectures can be accessed through the SimplTrack software.