We have an issue at Medicine Hat College that may be unique but we hope not because we need some help! For the past few years all of the students in the Health Studies program take a common course that is team-taught by up to 5 instructors. In this course the students are given assignments where they need to use digital video cameras to tape confidential interviews. They are then to hand a copy of the tape into the instructor. We have lots of cameras but never enough to meet the demand (as with everything, the assignments all seem to be due at the same time for all 150+ students) and there is a componded problem in that the new cameras that use the small format tapes are not compatable with the older models that the instructors use. Consequently we are expected to have enough cameras for all of the students plus the instructors. We cannot afford to do that!

To try to handle this we have been dubbing the small versions onto the older larger type (VHS) or onto DVD but this is very time consuming for the staff and the students all want them done at the same time (of course!).

If you or your AV department has encountered this same problem, how do you handle it?