Classrooms
Sciences Po regularly renovates the classrooms across its various campuses to provide you with teaching and learning environments that combine comfort, user-friendliness, innovation and state-of-the-art digital facilities.
They are designed to accommodate everyone’s needs, particularly those of people with disabilities.
Classrooms designed for hybrid teaching
Some of the classrooms are equipped with new digital tools that enable teaching to take place simultaneously for students present in the room and those joining remotely, particularly using Zoom software. They also allow lectures to be recorded so that students can watch them after the session (asynchronously). Thus, the classrooms allow for a mix of face-to-face and distance learning, as well as synchronous and asynchronous learning: they facilitate the implementation of hybrid teaching.
- Optimise your use of the classroom in a hybrid setting: hybrid classroom guide.
- See the hybrid classroom guide for when the teacher is not physically present (in cases where the teacher is leading the lesson remotely and a number of students are attending the lesson in the classroom).
Improved visual and acoustic conditions
Special wall coverings (acoustic panels) are fitted around the room to eliminate echoes. They provide excellent sound insulation and block out noise from outside the room.
The brightness of the rooms is adjustable: a dual switch located near the column where the room’s computer is situated allows you to adjust the brightness of the two lighting zones in the rooms.
The lighting is also designed to provide excellent visibility of all teaching aids in the room, particularly the digital whiteboard. You will also find switches near the room doors allowing you to switch off the two zones independently of one another. The first zone covers the area closest to the content display surface. The second zone covers the rear of the room.
Contrast levels have also been increased to more clearly delineate the various functional areas (such as writing stations) as well as the switches and electrical sockets (the number of which has been significantly increased to allow you to charge your digital devices when needed).
An educational space dedicated to discussion
The rooms are designed to offer a dedicated space in front of the digital screen. This area is a space dedicated to discussion that Sciences Po has sought to highlight, by placing writing stations all around a very user-friendly digital touchscreen.
A user-friendly digital touchscreen
Video projection is displayed on a digital touchscreen. This screen combines robustness with ease of use, allowing you to replicate habits already acquired on other digital devices (using your finger as if it were a computer mouse, gestures to zoom in as on a smartphone, etc.). This screen allows you to replicate even more common gestures, such as wiping away text written on a traditional whiteboard with your hand.
Mobile desks that adapt to everyone’s needs
The rooms are equipped with individual desks. They can be adjusted in height, depth and angle to suit all body types and situations, whether for accessibility or educational purposes.
These desks are mobile. They can therefore be arranged to meet the needs of more innovative teaching activities.
If you have any technical queries, please contact the Helpdesk.