Media Services

• Overview
  • Scheduled Hours
  • Staff
• Classrooms & Labs
  • Legacy MRS
  • Satellite TV Signals Available
• Borrowing Equipment
  • Audience Response Systems: Overview
  • Equipment Available
  • Laptops & Projectors
  • Fine Policy
• Media Viewing
  • Faculty & Staff FAQ
  • Student FAQ
• Training & Support
• Event Services
  • Policies, Procedures, and Necessary Information
  • Technology Built Into Event Spaces
  • Event Booking Process
  • Equipment Rental Rates
  • Legacy MRS
  • Advertise Your Events on the MDS
• Request Forms
  • Media Equipment for Classrooms
  • Event Request Forms
  • Simmons Cable TV Request
  • Software Installation Request
  • Message Display Request
  • Performance Release

Classrooms & Technology Labs

Simmons has created an environment where almost every teaching and event space has built-in technology.  Use this page to check brief overviews of what is built-in where. 

After you schedule your classroom through the Registrar's Office (617-521-2111) or event space through Conferences and Special Events, check these summaries to see what technology has been permanently installed. From there you can work with Media Services to schedule any additional technology not already installed. If you are scheduled to use a meeting room or event space, please see our Events page. If you do not see your room listed below, or on the Technology in Events Spaces page, please contact Media Services (617-521-2765) so we can help you determine what can be delivered to your space.

Please complete a request form to inform Media Services of your intended technology use, even if you intend to only use technology that is permanently installed. That way, if we know you are using the room and the built-in technology isn't working, we can deliver an alternative for you.

Technology works closely with instructors to ensure that all software needed for classes or workshops is on the computers. Please complete a Software Installation Request Form to have software installed on the instructor's station or student computers (in labs).

Index of summaries

• Standard classrooms
• Advanced technology classrooms
• Smartboard rooms
• Technology in event spaces
• Equipment available for delivery
• Detailed list of Technology built into Simmons spaces

Standard classrooms and Technology labs

The current standard for a Simmons classroom or Technology lab includes the following built-in equipment:

• Video/data projector
• Windows OS computer (some are "dual boot" Macintosh computers that can run either Windows or Mac OS)
• DVD/VHS
• Simmons Cable TV (also see Legacy MRS)
• Auxilliary video inputs (e.g. for a laptop or document camera)

*SOM building classrooms also include annotation devices
+The computer in L325 is a Macintosh running Mac OS only
^S401 does not have a built-in computer or DVD/VHS player

For other equipment, such as overhead projectors, see Technology built into Simmons spaces, and Equipment available for delivery

Advanced technology classrooms

There are some classrooms that have more extensive built-in technology:

• Video/data projector
• Macintosh computer that runs Windows and Mac OS
• DVD/VHS
• Teleconference
• Wired/Wireless microphones
• Video and audio recording (VHS or DVD)
• Document camera
• Auxilliary video inputs (e.g. for a laptop or document camera)

*M222 also has a display serving as the computer monitor, touch panel, and annotation device; Simmons Cable TV access; and videoconferencing

Smartboard rooms

Science Center S302 and S319 have SmartBoard technology built-in.  A SmartBoard is a whiteboard-like device that allows presenters, using special markers, to create handwritten notes and save them to a computer file.

• SmartBoard
• Auxilliary video inputs (e.g. for a laptop or document camera, or VHS/DVD player)