How California Correctional Facilities Are Modernizing Inmate Education and Behavioral Health with ViewSonic ViewBoard Displays

SOLUTION BRIEF

How California Correctional Facilities Are Modernizing Inmate Education and Behavioral Health with ViewSonic ViewBoard Displays

SCHOOL

Universidad Anáhuac Mayab, located in Mérida, Yucatán, in southeastern Mexico, is a private higher education institution with nearly 8,000 students from 27 countries. It is widely recognized for its academic excellence and forward-thinking educational approach, which is based on flexible programs and comprehensive learning environments that prepare highly qualified professionals.

Anáhuac is currently ranked among the top 2% of universities worldwide and among the top three private universities in Mexico. It is also one of the three universities with the highest graduate employability rates in the country. The university offers 30 undergraduate programs in a variety of fields. Among them is the Multimedia Design degree program, which contributes to the video game, animation, audiovisual production and digital design industries. These fields have experienced exponential growth in popularity and demand, becoming some of the most important multibillion-dollar sectors in the world.

Multimedia designers play a key role in developing and sustaining these industries by creating innovative, trend-driven digital design solutions. They are experts in managing and marketing digital projects, using specialized software for image, audio, and video editing, as well as 2D and 3D modeling and animation, digital publishing and application development.

CHALLENGE

California correctional facilities needed to replace wall-mounted dry erase boards that created security concerns and limited instructional workspace in training rooms and psychiatric units.

Classrooms, meeting rooms and clinical spaces inside a correctional environment support mission-critical work under strict safety and operational requirements. Staff running inmate programs needed an engaging way to deliver vocational training and academic diploma coursework. Psychiatric units needed a more effective method for reviewing patient progress, treatment plans and care coordination.

Before the deployment, many rooms relied on dry erase boards attached to the wall. Those boards offered limited writing space, required manual erasing and rewriting, and could not display digital content, training materials, schedules or care information. In secured environments, wall-mounted boards and loose accessories also introduced avoidable security concerns.

The replacement solution had to meet several requirements at once:

• Support interactive instruction and digital content sharing
• Support collaborative review sessions without adding complexity for instructors, program staff or clinical teams
• Provide enough workspace for group-based learning and multidisciplinary care discussions
• Reduce the wall-mounted boards and loose accessories that require oversight in a secured room

Why Did ViewSonic ViewBoard Displays Fit These Environments?

A 75-inch interactive panel changes what a secured room can support. The ViewSonic^® ViewBoard^® IFP7541 gives instructors, program facilitators and care teams a large shared canvas for presenting content, annotating information and guiding group discussions, with more room to work than a traditional dry erase board.

Multi-touch functionality makes training sessions more participatory. myViewBoard software adds the digital whiteboarding tools staff use to prepare, present, annotate and save instructional or meeting content.

The VPC35 slot-in PC addresses the room itself. It adds a full Windows computing experience directly to compatible ViewBoard displays, which reduces the need for separate external computers or loose cabling in shared spaces.

What ViewSonic Solution Did They Deploy?

The facilities deployed ViewBoard IFP7541 interactive flat panels to create digital teaching and collaboration spaces serving both instructional and clinical workflows:

• ViewSonic ViewBoard IFP7541: a 75-inch 4K UHD interactive flat panel display with multi-touch capability, used as the primary interactive teaching and collaboration surface in classrooms and psychiatric units
• ViewSonic VPC35 slot-in PC: an OPS-compatible slot-in PC that adds an integrated Windows computing experience to the ViewBoard display, reducing external computers and loose cabling in shared rooms
• myViewBoard: ViewSonic’s digital whiteboarding software for preparing, presenting, annotating and saving lessons, meeting notes and care-coordination content

What Does the Deployment Look Like?

Each room pairs one IFP7541 with a VPC35 slot-in PC, so the computing sits inside the display rather than alongside it. That supports cleaner room setups and reduces the external computers and loose cabling that require oversight in a secured space.

The same configuration serves both program areas. In education spaces it supports vocational lessons, academic diploma coursework, diagrams, step-by-step demonstrations and interactive review. In psychiatric units it supports patient progress reviews, treatment planning discussions and structured care coordination meetings.

What Results Have the Facilities Seen?

• Reduced reliance on fixed dry erase boards in secured rooms, helping address security concerns tied to traditional wall-mounted writing surfaces
• Expanded usable instructional workspace from a static board to a 75-inch interactive 4K digital canvas
• Enabled inmate training programs to present, annotate and revisit vocational and academic diploma materials more efficiently
• Gave psychiatric units a shared digital workspace for reviewing patient progress, care plans and team notes during care coordination sessions
• Supported cleaner room setups by pairing each interactive display with an integrated slot-in PC rather than a separate external computer

Replacing fixed dry erase boards gave the facilities a more flexible platform for training and care management. Instructors present digital course content, annotate directly on screen and work in a larger visual space to support vocational instruction and academic diploma completion.

In psychiatric units, multidisciplinary teams centralize patient progress discussions on a shared display, which makes it easier to review information together and align on next steps during care meetings. The deployment answers the original operational requirement: a safer alternative to wall-mounted dry erase boards that could also improve learning and care coordination.

“The upgrade solved daily reliability issues while expanding how the facility operates. Choosing a mobile dvLED screen gave every room in the event center access to high-impact visual capabilities.”

— Zeus Borges, Coordinator of the Multimedia Design Program

SOLUTION

This year, students in the eighth semester of the Multimedia Design program were responsible for creating the projection mapping animation, which was displayed on square structures using 360° imagery.

ViewSonic equipped the festival with four LS740HD projectors, which deliver 5,000 ANSI lumens and feature lamp-free, third-generation laser phosphor technology to ensure bright and vivid images. They can also project Full HD 1080p images at sizes of up to 300 inches. The LS740HD features 1.3X optical zoom, horizontal and vertical keystone correction, four-corner adjustment, 360° projection and portrait mode, making it the ideal solution for the show developed by the students.

Professor Zeus Borges, Coordinator of the Multimedia Design Program and organizer of the festival, explained: “Through this event, we aim to become a connection hub for the southeastern region. At present, Mexico does not have an initiative that supports animation or audiovisual production for states such as Chiapas, Tabasco, Veracruz, Campeche, Quintana Roo, and, especially, Yucatán. We want to become a meeting point for southeastern Mexico and Central America.”

“We have a large student population from El Salvador, Honduras, Guatemala, Nicaragua, and even Colombia who come to study here in Mérida. Festival PRISMA gives them the opportunity to meet entrepreneurs and leaders from the audiovisual industry, allowing them to interact with these professionals and expand their knowledge. We want Mérida to become that meeting point, a place that creates employment opportunities and serves as a production hub. This year, we welcomed guests guests from Spain and from California, USA,” he added.

Thanks to the LS740HD’s ability to be positioned vertically at virtually any angle, the students were able to develop creative applications with additional support from specialized software.

“There is excellent compatibility between the projectors and the computers. We did not experience any connection or interaction issues. Implementing the ViewSonic projectors was extremely straightforward,” Professor Borges added. “We are currently evaluating new projects involving the façades and buildings around the university. We want to make the most of everything we can achieve in terms of visualization. Now that the projectors are part of our technology toolkit, we have thousands of ideas that we can begin bringing to life.”

“Our students rely on tech-based tools for their projects. Understanding how the equipment works and learning about its features helps them tremendously when they enter the workforce. They already have practical knowledge that gives them useful experience and a professional edge that is invaluable to their development,” the professor explained.

RESULTS

According to Professor Borges, having the equipment available on campus will allow the university to experiment with new projection mapping trends, such as linking multiple projectors and exploring new ideas that enable professors and students to further expand their creativity.

Equipment with capabilities such as those offered by the LS740HD projectors enhances the students’ development and opens the door to more innovative creations that may one day be enjoyed in films, video games, or digital animations displayed on mobile phones or other visual devices.

Technology is one of the most important tools in the multimedia design field, and students must continually prepare to understand how to use it and make the most of its capabilities. This highlights the importance of providing them with high-quality, forward-thinking visual solutions such as those offered by ViewSonic.

ViewBoard^® IFP7541: 75-inch 4K interactive flat panel

VPC35: Slot-in PC

myViewBoard^®: Digital whiteboarding software

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