Below are two possible scenarios that may occur if you want to play audio in the classroom, with solutions.
Even if you learn how to change these audio settings on your MacBook but forget later, we can quickly help you via the classroom phone.
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Ensuring that audio from your MacBook goes to the classroom speakers
When you plug your Apple laptop in an AV System or sound system that it’s never connected to before, you may need to change the audio output on your laptop. You’ll be able to tell if audio is playing from your computer speakers instead of the classroom speakers.
If your MacBook is running any operating system as recent as macOS Sonoma…this is how you change the audio output of your MacBook.
STEP 1: On your MacBook, go to the “System Settings” app. You can access it by going to the Apple logo on the upper right corner of your macBook Display, and selecting “System Settings..”
STEP 2: A new window like the image below will appear. Select “Sound” on the left sidebar of the window.
In the Output & Input Area, it should be on the output tab by default.
If you look below the Output Tab, there are two columns “Name” and “Type.”
In the Mac World, you’ll want to look at the “Type” to see what sound output your computer is using, and what’s available.
If Sound is coming out of your computer instead of the classroom, The “Type” of sound output that is selected will be called “Built-in.”
STEP 3: If you want sound to come out of the available USB-C or HDMI pullout cables coming out of the podium,
Under “Type” you’ll want to select “HDMI.”
At present, whether you are using the HDMI cord or the USB-C cord, both of those cords are considered “HDMI” by our AV Systems and your MacBook. So long as you select the “type” that says HDMI, you should be fine with either cord.
Now, if you are really using the USB-C cord or the HDMI cord, do NOT select the sound output that is named after the classroom. That is the sound output for the Wireless Presentation Source and will not work with the USB-C or HDMI plugged in your Apple Laptop.
You’ll know that’s the case if you look at the “Type” column.
it will say “AirPlay” and is not a video cord like HDMI.
After selecting the output for the video cable, play a clip from YouTube or a video or audio file on your computer. Audio from your computer should be audible on the classroom speakers at this point. Adjust volume on the Touch Panel accordingly by pressing the arrows on near the Program Volume Slider.
Depending on how you adjust the program volume, this slider will go up and down as well to show how high or low the volume is for the program volume.
Playing Zoom Audio through the Classroom Speakers
If you want to use Zoom in our classrooms to feature a guest speaker, it is not enough to change the general audio settings on your laptop. You will also have to change the sound settings in Zoom.
If you have your Zoom meeting open
First ensure that the (Program) volume on the Touch Panel is not set to the max. Recommend 30-40% for Program Speakers.
With your Zoom meeting open and live, move your cursor to the lower left hand corner of that window where the microphone icon is located. Click that little gray arrow as pictured below.
When you click that little gray arrow, you’ll get a large sub-menu. Navigate to the “Select a Speaker” section and click “DVX 2250.” Depending on the room you are in, it may be “DVX 3150” or “DVX 3250” or “Enova DVX 2250.” However that is expressed, select the option similar to that as pictured below:
Your guest speaker should be audible on the classroom speakers.
Another way to change the audio on Zoom
- First ensure that the (Program) volume on the Touch Panel is not set to the max. Recommend 30-40% for Program Speakers.
- With the Zoom app, click on icon with your initials on the upper right hand corner.
- A drop down menu will appear, click on “Settings.” Might be displayed as a Gear icon instead.
- A window should pop up resembling the screenshot below
- Click on “Audio” as indicated on the screenshot.
- Under Speaker, to the left of the “Test Speaker” button, click the drop down menu. You should see some options. Probably “Built-in speakers” and “same as system” and “DVX 2250.” Select “DVX 2250.” If you are using the “Analog Laptop” connection, use “same as system.” Once the correct audio output is selected, the guest speaker should be audible on the classroom speakers.
Next in the Tutorial
To proceed with the tutorial, press any of the program volume control buttons on the Touch Panel. It can be the up or down or mute program volume button. Press one of those, and you’ll get to the next stage of the Tutorial.
