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VAVS - Videoconferencing and Audio Visual Services

Videoconferencing and Audio Visual Services (VAVS) provide equipment and support services in centrally bookable Common Teaching Rooms (CTR), currently some 185 rooms in Cairns, Cairns (CBD), Townsville and Townsville CBD combined.

AV Room Systems

VAVS maintains, controls and administers audio visual systems in centrally bookable rooms at:

  • Cairns (Nguma-bada campus campus)
  • Cairns CBD (Bada-jali campus)
  • Townsville (Bebegu Yumba campus)
  • Townsville CBD
Video Conferencing
  • VAVS provides videoconferencing room hardware maintenance, scheduling of video calls and bridging for multi site connections.
Video Recording System
  • VAVS maintains hardware recorders in centrally bookable spaces at Cairns and Townsville..
    Panopto is the University's centrally supported enterprise video capture platform from 1/7/2021.
Zoom
  • VAVS provides meeting s and webinars user support for Zoom, the preferred Virtual Meeting Room system available to all staff and students.
Audio Visual Equipment
  • Technical staff are available at both the Cairns and Townsville campuses to provide Audio Visual Equipment support. For assistance with audio visual equipment in common teaching rooms including projectors, TV-monitors, touch-, button- and control panels, Panopto hardware recorders and visualisers, contact VAVS.
Room PC
Video hardware recorders
  • Technical staff are available to train and assist users to get the full benefit of JCU videoconferencing and audio visual room systems, either as a one on one or group training sessions.
  • Technical staff at the JCU Townsville College of Medicine and Dentistry aka MedTech are responsible for the technical support in that area. Please note their network encompasses facilities at Atherton, Cairns, Cloncurry, Longreach, Mackay, Mt Isa,  and Townsville. For technical assistance, contact MedTech.
  • For power, lighting and air conditioning related problems, fill out a MEX request (maintenance request).