If you would like to host a Guest Speaker in your class it is important that the Department Chair (Currently Sally Robertson, srobertson@gsu.edu) and the Production Manager (Currently Sunny Vidrine, svidrine@gsu.edu) know who is in the building and in what capacity, whether or not they are being paid a stipend, or affecting anything outside of your standard classroom session.
Wiki Category: Academics
Room Prep Information
Starting with the 23-24 season, use of any room in the Fine Arts building (outside of standard classroom use) will need to fill out this form. This includes:
Outside of a normal class or club session (time/date)
Outside of normal class or club’s standard location. (E.g. moving to stage)
Require additional personnel or equipment
Require departmental funding
Include Outside Participants or Guests
All Public, Private, and in-house Events, even those consistently scheduled year to year (e.g. Theatre Arts Guild performances).
MUST provide room prep information to the Production Manager (Currently Sunny Vidrine svidrine@gsu.edu) using this form, not email. This form may be completed as soon as the room use is planned, but must be completed no later than 30 days prior to the scheduled date.
Minor updates may be submitted to the production manager up to 7 days in advance, but not all adjustments can be accommodated at this deadline.
Room Prep Information Form (Updated February 2024) https://sites.gsu.edu/perimetercollegefinearts/prep/
Faculty Course Request
For any preferences to be considered, Faculty must request their next semester’s teaching load every semester as assigned.
Classrooms
Starting with the 23-24 season, use of any room in the Fine Arts building (outside of standard classroom use) will need to fill out this form. This includes:
Outside of a normal class or club session (time/date)
Outside of normal class or club’s standard location. (E.g. moving to stage)
Require additional personnel or equipment
Require departmental funding
Include Outside Participants or Guests
All Public, Private, and in-house Events, even those consistently scheduled year to year (e.g. Theatre Arts Guild performances).
MUST provide room prep information to the Production Manager (Currently Sunny Vidrine svidrine@gsu.edu) using this form, not email. This form may be completed as soon as the room use is planned, but must be completed no later than 30 days prior to the scheduled date.
Minor updates may be submitted to the production manager up to 7 days in advance, but not all adjustments can be accommodated at this deadline.
Room Prep Information Form (Updated February 2024) https://sites.gsu.edu/perimetercollegefinearts/prep/
Academics
Piano Lab (Setup and Equipment)
This guide contains instructions for setting up the keyboards and private listening system for the keyboard studio classroom (Currently CF 2220).
Keyboard Arrangement
The Keyboards should face the instructor’s platform in 2 columns. Each keyboard has a number label on the back, in the upper right corner. They should be arranged so that, when viewed from the instructor’s position, 1-4 are on the left (with 1 nearest the instructor) and 5-8 are on the right (with 5 nearest the instructor).
Cable Management
If properly disassembled the cables should be arranged into 2 runs, one for the left-hand column (1-4) and one for the right-hand column (5-8). Each run should contain power with split-off points as well as data.
Lay each run along the aisle-side edge of each keyboard column, ensuring that a power-split lands near each keyboard along with the appropriate data cable. Each data cable is assigned to a keyboard and can be identified by the numbered tag near the head of the cable (see photo).
Keyboard Setup
Locate the power cable for each keyboard. Plug into the “DC in” port on the back-center of the keyboard (top left of photo below). Set the transformer on the shelf at the bottom (bottom-center of photo). Plug the Edison end of the power cable into the nearest power-split point (being held in photo). If for some reason the pedals have been disconnected, plug the into the “Pedal” port (top center).
Remaining on the back side of the keyboard, locate the splitter-box on the bottom side of the keyboard itself. Plug in the data cable and ensure the connection between the keyboard and the splitter is arranged as seen below.
Move to the front side of the splitter. Plug the Headset cables into the “Student 1” ports as shown. The green jack is the headphones and the red jack is the mic (on current model of headset). Hang the headset from the hook under the keyboard.
Repeat the above process for the other keyboards. Once all keyboards are done, fit the cable protectors over each cable run, allowing cables to exit at each keyboard as needed. Tape down the protectors to the floor to prevent trip hazards.
Data Hub
In the unlikely instance that the wall-mounted data hub needs to be unpatched or moved, reference the photo below for repatching.
Testing
Have one person sit at the instructor’s station while the other moves from one keyboard to the next.
Instructor Station: Use the headset and the control box to listen to each keyboard as your partner moves to each. On the control box, make sure channels 1-8 are selected by pressing the bottom left button until the “1-8” light is lit up. To select/deselect a channel, push the button corresponding to each station on the bottom row. Confirm that the Instructor’s headset can hear each station’s instrument and mic. Also confirm that each station can hear the instructor’s mic.
Student Station: (Use this time to also test each station’s headset) At each station. Confirm the Following:
- The student’s headset can hear the instrument
- The instructor’s headset can hear the instrument
- Each headset can hear the other’s microphone