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Wireless Screen Sharing Is the New Standard for Higher Ed Classrooms

HDMI cables. Document cameras. DVD players. Dongles and adapters. 

Many classrooms still rely on these old technologies, but students and educators expect more. 

Devices in a classroom with a "No Signal" message on the primary classroom screen

The Old Stack Doesn’t Match the Way We Teach Now 

Classroom audiovisual (AV) tech from 20-plus years ago doesn't work with today’s workflows. 

It was built for old-school lectures without engagement, interaction and collaboration. Students were expected to listen and not participate. Classroom tech too often remains stuck in the past while learning styles and teaching methods have moved forward. 

Faculty and students now bring laptops, phones, tablets and Chromebooks to class. Content is created in browsers and saved to the cloud. Thumb drives and desktop folders simply aren't a thing anymore. 

In too many classrooms, AV tech still involves: 

  • Calling IT to help connect student devices 

  • Giving up and emailing presentation slides to someone else 

  • Switching inputs three times before anything shows up on the screen

  • Printing out laminated "how to share" instructional sheets that inevitably get lost

That’s not a tech problem. That’s a  user-experience problem, and it’s costing you more than you think

What Students and Faculty Expect Now 

There's almost always a screen within viewing distance of students and faculty in educational spaces. It's the main feature of any room. People use these screens constantly, and they expect to know how to use them instinctively. 

So when they walk into a classroom and can’t share their screen without asking for help or hunting for an adapter, it breaks that expectation. It’s frustrating. The more comfortable people are with screens, the less patient they are when one doesn’t work.  

Faculty shouldn’t need a cheat sheet to teach. Students shouldn’t feel anxiety about presenting. If connecting to a display feels like a puzzle, they’ll eventually stop using it. 

That’s when AV goes unused — not always because it’s broken, but because it’s unfamiliar, complicated and lackluster.
  

You’re Not Innovating. You’re Catching Up. 

Just like all those screens, wireless screen sharing isn’t a new frontier. It’s expected. 

Universities and schools aren't leading the curve on this — your users are. They’ve already formed expectations based on how every other screen in their life works. When a classroom doesn’t deliver that experience, it doesn’t feel normal. It feels behind and outdated. 

Your faculty members expect it. Your students definitely expect it. Wireless screen sharing is no longer a cutting-edge innovation. It's the new standard.

What “Standard” Should Look Like in 2025

Let’s reset the baseline for classroom AV tech: 

  • Wireless screen sharing that works across all student, teacher and faculty devices 

  • No adapters or cables

  • Consistent user experience across all rooms 

  • Admin-level control for IT 

  • Budget-friendly and continually evolving

That’s what a modern classroom needs to function. Fortunately, you don't need a luxury AV stack to get there.
 

Where Ditto Fits 

Ditto makes this standard easy to reach. It works with the hardware you already have—displays, projectors, whatever’s in the room. 

It gives your users one simple, consistent way to share wirelessly, no matter their device, and it removes the confusion that comes from mixing modern users with legacy workflows. 

Wireless screen sharing is no longer a nice-to-have. It’s what your users assume you already support. 

With Ditto, you can meet and exceed that expectation. 

See how Ditto sets the new standard for campus AV →


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