Instructional Computing

Cisco TelePresence is a new-generation videoconferencing system that provides users an immersive face-to-face meeting experience using three 65” high-definition (HD) plasma televisions and CD-quality audio. Each University of Missouri TelePresence room is designed to appear as though you are in the same room and communicating across the table with life-size colleagues. Cameras and microphones are pre-positioned to eliminate the need for adjustments. Presentations (like PowerPoint) can appear on auxiliary monitors. Up to eighteen conferees can formally participate. End users can initiate scheduled conferences using TelePresence-associated (VoIP) telephone, just like making a regular call. Calls can be point-to-point or multipoint. Coming this Fall end-users will tentatively be able to schedule conferences with other TelePresence systems throughout the world via AT&T or I2.

The scheduling for the room is done via Outlook, using the steps described below:

• Click on File, then New, and then Meeting Request.   Add meeting participants in the required and/or optional fields in the meeting request window that opens.
• Go to the scheduling screen by clicking Scheduling and then click on the add others button to open the address book. Here is where you will also set the date and start/end times for the event.
• NOTE: You must schedule at least 15 minutes between any meeting already on the calendar.
• Type “TelePresence” to find the list of system wide available rooms and select two or more TelePresence rooms. These must go into the resources field!
• Click OK
• Add in required and optional users to be invited to the meeting.
  
• Ensure the meeting times do not conflict with other meetings.
• Click back on Appointment on the top ribbon and then Send to close the meeting request. Wait for a message from TelePresence confirming the meeting.

  Click here for visual step by step instructions on scheduling the room.

If you need to schedule a TelePresence conference wiht a room outside the University of Missouri System, please follow the instructions on the MOREnet TelePresence scheduling page.

• UMSL: University Center, Room 61.   Click here for a map and directions.
• MU: Ellis Library, Room 106A
• UMKC: Administrative Center, Room 210
• Missouri S&T: Curtis Laws Wilson Library,Room 201A
• MOREnet: MOREnet Building, Room 206B
  

Please Contact:

• Chris Scheetz: 516-6742 / scheetzc@umsl.edu
• Ken Voss: 516-6987 / vossk@umsl.edu