Classrooms Reimagined Standards
These upgrades are among the first wave of investments through Stanford Classrooms Reimagined, the university’s ten year strategic plan to upgrade and support our classrooms and informal learning environments.
Classroom Technology Packages
New presentation technology features an intuitive touchscreen interface, improved sound and lighting, a space-saving profile for the equipment stack. All classrooms have an installed HDMI cable with an attached adapter that supports USB-C connection. Mac OS users also have the option for wireless presentation via Apple TV. If your device requires additional adapters or cables, please contact Classroom Technology Support in advance of your class. View the complete list of classrooms and their technology packages in the University Classrooms Inventory.
Basic Presentation: Smart Panel Classrooms
Basic Presentation Classrooms are typically smaller rooms that are equipped with audio reinforcement, digital projection, touch screen AV control and connections for laptops and mobile devices. Please see these resources for more detailed instructions:
Printable Instructions: Basic Presentation Classroom
These rooms do not have built-in microphones, video-conferencing, or lecture capture capabilities available.
Default Classroom Layouts
Please request a room with a default layout that best meets your needs most of the time. Instructors, TAs, and students are welcome to move furniture during class time for special events and activities. Please be sure to return the room to its default layout for the next class.
Default layouts that accommodate most class activities without changing furniture configurations will save instructors set-up time, reduce the friction in beginning each class period, and support seamless transition between classes. Instructors and students move furniture only when engaging in special activities, saving precious in-class time for teaching and learning activities. Providing consistent default room layouts and feature requests has the potential to increase faculty and instructor satisfaction as pedagogies and course sizes are more readily and consistently matched to appropriate room sizes and types.
Lecture
Students are seated in rows, all facing the instructor. Rooms capacities range from 40 to 702, with a few smaller than 40. Case study rooms also easily support lecture.
Seminar
Students are seated in an oval or around a shared center table. Seminar rooms range in capacity from 6 to 24.
Small Group
To facilitate better group work and foster a stronger sense of classroom community, tables are placed in groups (usually) with four students per pod. Chairs swivel to allow students to shift focus easily from instructor to assigned activity. Many small group rooms are equipped with a personal dry erase board per student to support group work and presentation. Students should furnish their own dry erase markers. Most small group rooms range from 20-30. A few accommodate 48-60 students and three are much larger.
Flex Chair
The new default layout, Flex Chair, can be used for lecture, seminar, or small group, but is also its own default layout for those who specifically want to request this new room configuration. Each student is in a movable chair with a personal writing surface, tablet clip, backpack storage. Casters make it easy to shift from front facing, think-pair-share or group work seamlessly.