Take a tour of the new classrooms and spaces within the Knauss Center for Business Education to learn about the different levels of technology in the classroom for teaching and learning. You can view more room detail specifics on the KCBE Classrooms page. You can watch the video for a brief overview of the classroom technology along with online training guides in the links throughout this page.
- AirMedia displays content from a laptop or mobile device to the projectors without having to use a cable. This feature is currently only available in Active Learning Spaces (104, 106, 124, 324), certain Large Clasrooms (102) and will be rolled out to the remaining classrooms.
- The Interactive Whiteboard MaxPad PC (108, 122, 208, 320, 330) is a computer that can be displayed to both screens and have been upgraded to also act as a projection screen to display any source so these rooms have dual projection.
- All classrooms and active learning spaces have cameras and microphones for recording lectures.
- All monitors are touch screen enabled and have a pen on the bottom right side that can be used to click around the touch screen with the pen or annotate PowerPoint slides.
- All classrooms come with a set of cable adapters to display your computer or devices.
- If you have any questions about scheduling your rooms, talk to the Event Scheduler for your academic area.
Rooms 314
Finance Lab
The Finance Lab offers a full suite of business analytics enabling students to use leading technologies to hone their skills and create real world experiences and simulations.
Room 316
Data Analytics Lab
The Data Analytics Lab will enable USD students to experience real world projects and be able to experience learning with a multifaceted touchscreen display. This display can show presentations, notes, websites, graphs, tables, and even let students collaborate on the display at the same time.
Active Learning Spaces
These are special rooms that are organized and set up to deliver active learning lectures. They have 48 seats that are grouped into sets of 8. Each grouping has a monitor display at the end of the tables.
These monitors may be used for group work and then displayed on the main room projector for presentations afterward. The podiums in this layout are in the center of the room with a projector and screen setup.
Active Learning Classrooms - Group Seating - 104, 106, 124, 324
Small Classrooms
Small classrooms are typically arranged in rows facing the front of the class and can seat 20-30 students. Some small classroms may use monitors instead of projectors for display.
Standard Classroom - Lecture seating (monitor display) - 110,120, 210, 220
Interactive Whiteboard (MaxPad PC) - Lecture seating - 330
Medium Classrooms
Classrooms wiith movable furniture and leading technology will be able to support students in supporting project-based and peer-to-peer learning that can seat up to 42 students.
Interactive Whiteboard (MaxPad PC) - Lecture seating - 108, 122, 208,320
Interactive Whiteboard (MaxPad PC) - Group seating (36 seats) - 306
Large Classrooms
Classrooms wiith movable furniture and leading technology will be able to support students in supporting project-based and peer-to-peer learning that can seat up to up to 48 students.
Standard Classroom - Graduate Classroom - 102
Standard Classroom - Lecture seating - 126
Standard Classroom - Group seating - 128, 202, 204, 302, 304, 326, 328
Room 224
Busch Family One-Button Production Studio
This production studio creates flipped classroom recording presentations by using a "One-Button Studio" system where students and faculty can have their presentations showing on the left monitor and see what the final recording will look like on the right side of the monitor.
The lighting, camera, and sound are all setup so users just press the record button.
Room 222
Busch Family Recording Studio
The podcast studio will allow faculty to create podcasts, screen recordings of their presentations, and a drawing tablet to annotate key points of presentations.
Rooms 118, 218, 212
Collaboration Pods
These collaboration rooms are not set up as classrooms, but can be considered more of a breakout room. They are not scheduled on the regular Classroom scheduler, but on the Events scheduler. This room seats 8 people and has a display monitor at the end of a conference table. Cords are provided for connection to your laptop or mobile device.
Rooms 114/116
Nexus Theatre
The Nexus Theatre is a meeting only space used to accommodate large events.