University Training

ChamSys Educational Training - Offering both Interactive Online & In Person Training Courses

ChamSys In Person Educational Training Courses

ChamSys offer In Person Educational training courses for students around the world. These are interactive hands on courses based on consoles connected to visualisers.





ChamSys Interactive, Online Student Lighting Console Programming Course

Course Description

This interactive course is designed for students enrolled in undergraduate or graduate lighting design programs at the university or collegiate level. With a hybrid module combining live instructor presentations, videos, quizzes and programming exercises this course is developed to keep the user engaged and knowledge retained.

Course duration: 4.5 hours.

Students will use their own individual laptops/PC's (Windows, Mac or Linux) to install the Free ChamSys MagicQ PC Software This is a fully featured software version of our flexible, modern lighting control consoles, capable of emulating multiple styles of lighting programming. Students can see exactly what they program in real-time using the included advanced 3D visualization software on the same computer.

Students will use their own individula laptops/PC's to connect to the ChamSys LMS system. and watch interactive videos, take quizzes & perform programming exercises in MagicQ PC

Students who complete the course receive a certificate from ChamSys along with a FREE MagicDMX USB-DMX interface - one universe lighting adapter for use with our MagicQ software.


Learning outcomes: Students will be proficient in setting up, patching and playing back lighting shows for both theatre and live performance style events on a professinal level lighting console. Students will understand naming conventions and programming principles that are common to modern day lighting consoles and their performance use.


In Advance

In advance: Students watch our Preparing for online MagicQ Training video, which details how to install and setup MagicQ ahead of the training.

Any students struggling, or unable to install MagicQ and get the program running are asked to contact ChamSys for assistance. Students who successfully get MagicQ installed and running after watching the video need to do nothing further until the training.


On The Day
(times are approximate – course start time can be modified to suit your needs.)

09:30-10:00

All students join a live Zoom session (Zoom link provided in advance) for an introduction to ChamSys and MagicQ and to be issued log-ins for the LMS system.

10:00-13:00

Students work independently on the MagicQ training course hosted on the LMS system (interactive with videos, quizzes & programming exercises). ChamSys trainers will be available via the Zoom meeting to answer questions. Students submit their show file from MagicQ when they have completed their LMS session.

13:00-13:30

BREAK (time for ChamSys trainers to review LMS results and go through show files submitted).

13:30-14:00

All students join back the live Zoom session. We review the students results & show files in a live Presentation with MagicDMX & Swag giveaway for the students.