Depending on whether you have an existing sign, a slide can be created on its own or from a sign. Both methods create a slide which may be used for any number of signs.

Method 1: Add a slide directly to a sign

This method creates the slide while editing a specific sign. The slide will still be able to be used on other signs as well as the sign on which it was created.

  1. Navigate to your sign and click Edit
  2. Click Add new slide
  3. Fill in the basic information:
    1. Title: Give your slide a descriptive name
    2. Description: Add a brief description for organizational purposes
  4. Choose your slide type and fill out the related fields.
  5. Configure access and timing:
    1. Scheduling options: A slide can be scheduled to publish or be unpublished at a certain time. See Scheduling content for digital signs for more information.
    2. Signage group: Select which groups can use and edit this slide
    3. Slide duration: Set how long the slide displays before transitioning to the next slide
  6. Click Save

The slide will be automatically added to your current sign and saved to the content library for future use on this and other signs.

Method 2: Add slide to the content library

This approach creates reusable slides that can be added to multiple signs.

  1. Navigate to the My groups page in the main menu. Click on the name of the group for which you want to add content.
  2. Click + Add slide
  3. Follow the same process as Method 1 to create your slide

Adding existing slides to signs

To add a slide that's already in your content library:

  1. Go to your sign and click Edit
  2. Click Add existing slide
  3. Find the slide from the list of slides. You can optionally search by title or description.
  4. Check the box next to any slides you want to add and click Add slides

Add an image slide

The image slide type allows the display of images, text on images, or combinations of both on your digital signs.

Creating images for your slides

Branded InDesign templates specifically designed for Campus Signage are available in the University of Iowa branded templates collection.

Add an image

Click Add media to open the media browser

Existing image

  • Search for it in the browser, select it, and click Insert selected

New image

  • Click Choose file to browse your computer
  • Select your image file
  • File requirements: Less than 10 MB, formats: png, gif, jpg, jpeg
  • Add Alternative text (describe the image for accessibility) or mark as Decorative
  • Click Save and insert

Important tips

Images are displayed on the sign as 16:9 or 9:16 depending on orientation.

Add a video slide

The video slide type allows your digital signage to display videos from YouTube or Vimeo.

Add a video

Click Add media to open the media browser

Existing

  • Search for it in the browser, select it, and click Insert selected

New Video

  • Paste the URL from YouTube or Vimeo of the public video you want to display and click Add
  • Click Save and insert

Important tips

  • To play a single looping video, ensure that only one slide is included in the slideshow.
  • For a YouTube playlist, make sure the playlist video is the only slide in the slideshow. Otherwise, only the first video in the playlist will play before the slideshow advances to the next slide.
  • For live YouTube videos, ensure the video is the only slide in the slideshow.
  • By default, the slide will attempt to fetch the video length to use for the slide duration.

Add a Campus Events slide

The Campus Events slide type allows displaying a list of events from the Campus Events website. This is ideal for showcasing upcoming events for your college, department, or unit.

Add a list of events

The following options can be set to determine how your slide gets displayed.

Headline

Displays a headline at the top of your slide to provide additional context to viewers so they know what they are looking at.

Filters

The event list can be filtered by selecting options for the following filters:

  • Department
  • Audiences
  • Types
  • Interests
  • Keywords
  • Location

Important tips

  • Events data is cached and refreshed hourly.
  • To ensure readability and performance, the number of events shown is limited based on screen orientation. Only three events are displayed for horizontal signs and five events for vertical signs.

Add a Outlook resource schedule slide

The Outlook Events slide type allows the display of Outlook resource schedules for the day by pulling data from ITS' Hours API. This is ideal for showcasing daily schedules, bookings, or availability directly on signs.

To make a resource schedule available for selection and display, contact the ITS CSI .NET group to have a resource added or removed from the Hours API.

Add a resource schedule

The following options can be set to determine how your slide gets displayed.

Headline

Displays as a table caption to provide additional context to viewers so they know what they are looking at.

Resource

Select one or more resources to display schedule information for.

Show End Times

Toggle on to display event end times.

Use Organizer Name

Replace the event title/summary with the organizer’s name.

Important Tips

  • To ensure readability and performance, the number of events shown is limited based on screen orientation. Only ten items are displayed for horizontal signs and fifteen items for vertical signs.
  • If your selected resources have more events than the display limit, consider creating multiple slides, one for each resource to ensure all events are shown.
  • Events are removed from display after their end time has passed and the website cache expires. The next scheduled reload of the sign will reflect these changes automatically.
  • Private events are displayed, but their title/summary is hidden in favor of the organizer name.
     

Add a room schedule slide

The Room Schedule slide type allows the display of room schedule information for the day by pulling data from Ad Astra within MAUI.

Add a room schedule

The following options can be set to determine how your slide gets displayed.

Headline

Displays as a table caption to provide additional context to viewers so they know what they are looking at. Override the default, Schedule for room {room_id}.

Room

Select a single room from the dropdown to display that room's schedule for the day.

Important tips

  • The entire schedule for the day is displayed. Items in the past are not removed until the next day.

Add a Mazevo Events slide

The Mazevo Events slide type allows displaying a list of events for individual rooms in a specified building.

To make a room available for selection and display, please refer to this documentation for further steps to take.

Add a list of Mazevo events

The following options can be set to determine how your slide gets displayed.

Headline

Displays a headline at the top of your slide to provide additional context to viewers so they know what they are looking at.

Rooms

Rooms are displayed as "(building name) - (room name)". You may choose as many rooms as you like, and events from any of the rooms you choose will be displayed.

Event types

You may filter down events from your chosen Rooms by choosing what types of events you want to see. Only your chosen Event types will be displayed. If no Event types are chosen, all events will be displayed, regardless of their type.

Display end time

Toggle on to display event end times.

Display room column

Toggle on to the rooms your events will take place in.

Important tips

  • Events data is cached and refreshed hourly.
  • To ensure readability and performance, the number of events shown is limited based on screen orientation. Only ten events are displayed for horizontal signs and fifteen events for vertical signs.
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