Digital signage and campus displays

Driven by the timetable, not by a separate playlist

Most campus signage runs on general-purpose digital signage software with timetable content pasted in by whoever remembers. That is why it is so often wrong. Wise Timetable generates the display output itself from the same data as every other channel.

Change a room in the administration console and the screen outside that room reflects it, without anyone touching the signage system.

• Departure-board style listings for building entrances and foyers
• Per-room displays showing what is in that room today
• Automatic updates as soon as a change is published
• Institutional branding on displayed output
• Runs on standard displays and media players — no proprietary hardware

Posters, events and announcements on the same screens

A display is also the institution's notice board. Under Settings, Messages, a configuration administrator composes a message once: a layout of up to four zones, and in each zone a picture, a YouTube video, a PDF, a piece of HTML or a headline. The same message can be given to as many displays as you like.

On each display you choose which messages it shows, for how many seconds and in which order. A message takes the whole screen in turn with the timetable, and then the timetable comes back. A display with no message looks exactly as it always did. Messages for campus screens walks through it.

• Seven layouts, from one full-screen zone to four quadrants, or a header strip over one large zone
• A PDF is shown page by page, so the poster the events team already made can go straight up
• A YouTube video plays muted, in a loop
• Each message can be switched off and given a date window, so an open-day notice is not left up by mistake
• Chosen in the display's own settings: the fullscreen message can be a picture, a PDF or one of your messages

A guide for the people who run the screens

Using Signage Displays is a 23-page guide with a picture for almost every step, written for the staff who look after the building rather than for experts: your first display in seven steps, how to make it readable, posters, messages, and ideas that work together. Download it in English (PDF) or in Slovenian (PDF).