Need help configuring a professional training room setup at work

[DezUk]

I wasn’t sure if this should go in the Monitors section but I feel it covers a wider area than just monitors hence why it’s in General

In the next few months we will be opening a new office which will have a room dedicated purely to training. I've been getting all the requirements aka 'dreams' that the trainers would like the room to do.

Two key ones have come up, one pretty easy... one I'm not sure off, and how to do them together...

The training room will comprise of 11 workstations in a U shape with a ceiling mounted projector - standard stuff. Each workstation is limited to one 15" TFT (built into the desks).


Technical requirements:

1: The ability to display any of the 11 workstations on the projector, just one at a time though, not all 11 at the same time.

My solution for this would be to have each workstation configured with dual/clone output all feeding into a KVM, have the video output of that into the projector. Easy!

2: The ability to display workstation 11's screen to all screens at the same time with a single push of a button at the trainers workstation.


I can't find a proper solution for this let alone one that would allow it to do the first problem as well.

Anyone got any ideas?


Thanks

 

[[RB]]

Reading through your requirements would it not just be easier to setup a remote dektop/VNC session to the machines as and when required?

Obviously you'd need to have one machine setup as the 'master', connected to the projector but I would think it'd work out far cheaper than buying a hardware solution.

 

[JonJ678]

Running them all off one main computer stands a pretty good chance of being cheaper and easier to set up like this. Use the main one as workstation 11, and thin clients for the other 10

 

[khrall]

It kinda depends on what type of training will be taking place. If it's application based training then JonJ678 solution would be ideal.

10/11 thinclients set up connecting to a master pc/server, which has the projector attached and RDP/VNC allowing the master to view the clients screen.

It also limits the amount of damage that the trainee's can do, lower set up costs and less points of failure.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thin_client