If you are interested in a setting up a Digital Signage display, start by obtaining the necessary hardware and working with your on-site support staff to put it in place.
Logging into Digital Signage
If you have not already, contact your unit's signage group manager to provide you access to your signage group. Signage groups are used to organize access to sign and slide content. If your unit does not have a signage group manager, contact ui-signage@uiowa.edu to get added to the signage system.
- Go to signage.sites.uiowa.edu
- Click Admin Login in the footer and enter in your HawkID and password to log in
Signs and slides
A slide is a single piece of content, such as an image, video, resource schedule, or event list. Each slide is used to communicate a distinct message or set of information. A sign is a collection of one or more slides that allows you to control which slides are shown and in what order. Digital displays are pointed at signs, therefore it is necessary to add a slide to a sign to get it to display.
Add a sign to your signage group
- From the Content Overview page, click + Add content and select > Sign
- Fill in the basic information:
- Title: Give your slide a descriptive name
- Reload interval: Select how often the sign will reload (if slides are not scheduled to publish at a specific time, 6 hours is the preferred option). See Scheduling content for digital signs for more information.
- Sign orientation: Match the orientation in which the TV is hung, either horizontally or vertically
Add your slides:
Multiple slides can be added to a sign, and each will display for the length of its selected duration. See Adding slides to digital signs for more information.
- Configure access:
- Signage group (if available): Select which groups can use and edit this slide
- Click Save
Pointing your digital display at your sign
Contact ui-signage@uiowa.edu with the following information:
- The signage device ID (e.g.
DDS-XXX-XXX) - The sign URL (e.g.
https://signage.sites.uiowa.edu/sign/...)