EDUCATION: TECHNOLOGY
Social-media integration has been one way for Hall County School District to keep digital signage content fresh and relevant.
nent of digital signage, boasting several disparate systems used across various schools. The architecture called for local school staff to manage multiple screens; often, support was required due to a lack of user friendliness. “Our challenges quickly escalated with the user and management experience, and keeping content fresh and relevant,” Turpin admitted. “The content-uploading tasks at each school were putting a burden on local staff. There were also stability problems with some of the systems, and [there was] a lack of professional resolution in presentation with others. Essentially, there was nothing consistent about the operation, and the burden on our support resources grew.” Turpin began to have discussions with the team at Nisewonger AV, an Atlantaarea AV integration firm that has long
The presence of network drops at many locations limited integration labor to connecting Cat6 patch cables to the drops, and HDMI cables to the displays.
School spirit has grown stronger at schools with the presence of digital signage. The school district even expects to extend the network to support booster clubs and sports events. 26 Sound & Communications July 2019