Touch screen with simple, advanced, divided and combined options

Quick start guide

On the controller on top of the podium, hit Setup in the bottom left of the screen.

Choose whether you want the rooms Separate or Combined. In Combined mode, both rooms are generally controlled by one of the podium controllers.

Choose whether you want a Simple setup (the same input mirrored on all projectors) or Advanced (different inputs to different projectors. Exit the setup menu to see options for displaying the inputs.

If you want to show slides in presenter mode, your best bet is to plug in a laptop using a HDMI or VGA cable to the socket in the wall below the big monitor. Check whether you have used the input for Laptop 1 or Laptop 2, which will be labeled on the cable. Choose that input on the bottom of the controller screen. In Simple mode it should display on all outputs; in Advanced mode, send it to whichever outputs you want (projectors, monitor etc.) on the top of the controller. Hit the present button on your laptop, and you should see your notes on your laptop and the slides on the output(s). You may need to plug in a secondary cable for audio, which should also be labelled Laptop 1 or Laptop 2.

If you want to run Zoom and send the camera and microphone feeds there, your best bet* is often to do that from the podium computer. Choose the PC input on the bottom of the controller screen. Use the video and audio settings on Zoom to make sure you have the right computer and microphone selected–the ‘Test Speaker & Microphone’ tool on Zoom is very helpful for this. If you want to show the Zoom meeting in the room, you can choose whichever outputs you want (projectors, monitor etc.) on the top of the controller.

When you are finished, shut down the controller on the podium, and log out from (do not shut down) the podium computer.

View the full podium instructions for a podium with simple, advanced, divided and combined options here.

* Note: in some cases, the camera and microphone feeds can only be routed to the podium computer. If, when you select a different input, you see a message saying ‘Connect camera and microphones to new source?’, you can send those feeds to your laptop. If not, they will only send to the podium computer. You can also double-check this by checking whether your room offers matrix switching in its listing on EMS.