Digital Signage for Schools, Colleges and Universities

A notice on a corridor wall gets read by a few people and ignored by the rest. Then it goes out of date, and somebody has to remember to take it down. Digital signage for schools fixes that. Every screen in the building can be updated from one dashboard, so the right message reaches people when it matters.

MRG Systems has been building screen systems in the UK for 43 years. LiveSpace is our own software, and it runs more than 25,000 connected screens. Our UK team builds it, installs it, and looks after it. Book a demo or start a free trial and see it working.

What is digital signage for schools?

It's a set of screens around the building, all managed from one system. They show announcements, timetable changes, events, menus and visitor information. Staff use a simple dashboard to pick what shows and when. Nobody has to print, pin up or swap notices by hand. It suits a small primary school with a few screens, and it suits a group of schools sharing one platform. The same approach works for digital signage for colleges, which we cover below.

Where screens work in a school

Put them where people stop, wait or pass through.

• Reception: a welcome, visitor info and opening times
• Corridors: news, directions and notices
• The canteen: menus and events
• The hall: assemblies and performances
• The library: new books and opening hours
• The staff room: changes, meetings and reminders
• Entrances: reminders for visitors and parents

Each screen can show different content. Reception welcomes a visitor, the canteen shows lunch, and the staff room shows today's changes. Digital signage for schools works best when every screen has one clear job, and you decide what it is.

What to show on school screens

A good screen carries a mix, and the mix depends on who is looking. Common choices are:

• daily announcements and notices
• events, trips and parents' evenings
• student achievements and awards
• menus and opening times
• timetable and room changes
• a welcome for visitors, with your school's branding

Keep each message short. People glance at a screen for a few seconds, so one clear idea works better than a crowded slide. You can schedule content ahead, so an event notice shows up the week before and goes the day after.

The biggest risk is stale content. If the same slides run for weeks, students stop looking. Give one person the job of keeping screens fresh, and set a regular time each week to check them. Recognition for students and staff is a good way to make a screen worth reading. The same advice holds for digital signage for universities, where events change every week.

Urgent notices and safety messages

Sometimes a message can't wait. A trip is cancelled, a room changes, or news needs to reach every screen at once. With LiveSpace, you can change content in seconds, and screens keep up with real-time events, so what people see stays current. Safety messages are an important use too. If you already have an alert system or emergency procedures, tell us in the consultation. We'll look at how screens could support them.

Digital signage for colleges and universities

Bigger sites have bigger problems. A college or university may have several buildings, thousands of students and information that changes every week. Digital signage for colleges and digital signage for universities do the same job as digital signage for schools: get the right message to the right people, fast. The difference is scale.

On a campus, screens can show:

• timetables and room changes
• open days and admissions events
• student services and society events
• directions between buildings
• canteen menus and opening times
• notices for staff and students

LiveSpace manages every screen and location from one dashboard, so one central team can look after every building. If departments should have their own say over what appears, mention it in the consultation and we'll go through the options.

One platform across every site

Many schools now work in groups. Each school has its own events and notices, but the group wants a shared look and a few messages that go everywhere. LiveSpace is clcloud-basedso you manage every screen in every location from one dashboard. Send one message to every school, or a different one to a single school.

It also grows with you. Start with reception and the corridors, then add the canteen and hall next term. That helps, because budgets and buildings rarely change all at once.

Easy for busy staff and IT teams

Teachers and office staff are busy. If updating a screen is hard, it won't happen. Your own team can schedule content ahead of time, so a week of notices can be set up in one go.

For your IT team, we monitor your network after installation and give same-day support from our Gloucestershire headquarters, plus regular platform updates. Got questions about hosting, access or data? Bring them to the consultation and we'll answer them directly. Digital signage for schools should take work off your team, not add to it.

Who we work with

MRG Systems works with more than 100 organisations across retail, healthcare, transport, education, hospitality and corporate workplaces. [Add one or two lines on a school, college or university client and the result, once the wording is approved.]

On a different kind of site, Places Leisure swapped posters and leaflets for more than 43 LiveSpace screens. They reported a 60 percent increase in engagement across 100,000 members. Same idea in a school: swap the notices people walk past for something they notice. [Read the case study]

From first call to live screens

Every project follows the same four steps.

1. Free consultation. We listen to your goals, look at what you have now and suggest the right approach.
2. Solution design. We plan the hardware, content and LiveSpace set-up for your site.
3. Installation. Our UK engineers install and commission every screen.
4. Ongoing support. Same-day help, monitoring and regular platform updates.

We use the same four steps for colleges and universities.

Talk to us about digital signage for schools

Tell us how many schools you have and what your students, staff a,nd parents need to see. We'll show you how LiveSpace can do it. Book a demo or start a free trial.