Schools have a lot of information to tell to students, staff, and parents every day. Digital signage is an excellent tool for school districts, because it allows them to seamlessly share information in all of their buildings. Students and staff can look at screens to see what schedules, lunch menus, and student recognition. With the right digital signage software, schools are able to create dynamic displays for the entire district, all with one tool.
Managing Digital Signage for School Districts
COVID instantly changed education and how schools could engage students and push information. Schools were left scrambling to find a solution.
While it may seem daunting to implement digital signage for an entire school district, today’s technology makes it easier than ever before.
Large districts utilize digital signage at the district level in multiple buildings with ease. Multi-level management allows for districts to be able to simultaneously stream unique content to each building.
Key Needs for Large School Systems
• Quick Implementation
• No Learning Curve
• Intuitive Design Program
• One Seamless Solution
• Real Customer Support
• Little IT Involvement
Make updates to content in just a few clicks. Updates are fast and easy, and so is device management. Multiple managers are able to login from anywhere and schedule and update content for each of their schools and multiple locations.
“There is zero learning curve with Arreya. We haven’t had to do much training or support. Arreya has great training videos, so we created an internal landing page for our schools with links. Within a few hours, everyone was good to go. We rarely troubleshoot support issues here, because the training and support at Arreya are so good. Our schools just love the software, but the greatest advantage for my team has been zero support needs. Other solutions we considered just required such a heavy lift. Arreya is just so intuitive.” -
Flexibility in Communication for All Audiences
School districts require the ability to communicate to many groups and many different departments. Live meeting feeds for parent meetings, daily schedules, library updates, or athletic information it is important to have a platform that is flexible.
Slideshows are a great beginning, but feeds from Google sheets, docs, and other apps can give more information instantly.
To manage a large school district, there should be multiple managers with different levels of access. Integrations from other apps, allow updates to specific content without logging into the digital signage platform. Menus for cafeterias and daily school schedules, can be preplanned and prescheduled without access.
“Ease of the platform was such a key part for us. Our staff had to be able to adopt it quickly. After seeing Arreya, it was a no-brainer decision. The solution is cloud-based, so it was super easy to launch.”
Training and Support Tools
Turn-key solutions that have a great video tutorial library and knowledge base are key to long term implementation of any digital signage platform. Onboarding is important, but if school staff have to continue to ask for IT support, the digital signage platform is not turn-key. Digital signage for school districts needs to be cost effective and streamline the communication process.
Key aspects of support:
- Onboarding
- Online articles
- Youtube video tutorials
- Webinars
- Phone and email support
Solving the Fracturing of Communications
Digital signage saves schools money, by streamlining communications for district wide school systems. Less time and less printing materials saves labor costs and supply costs. Cloud-based solutions have zero impact on district servers and are more reliable. Most importantly, digital signage is instantly deployed to everyone and everywhere.