Overview

Digital Signage is a service provided by Central Campus IT (ITS) for visual content displays. At UMSN we subscribe to this service and provide hardware for displaying these signs along with managing what is shown. Any questions about updating and maintaining the signs can be answered by UMSN-IT, or by the UMSN department that is in charge of an area's signs.

Glossary
Content Manager Desktop (CMD) - The program that controls what content is shown on our Digital Signs TVs
Four Winds - The company that produces Content Manager Desktop
Templates (within CMD) - Predefined layouts to be used on Digital Signs.
Player (within CMD) - The window that allows previews of your sign before deploying

ITS Provided Knowledge

Central campus IT has provided a very comprehensive training and knowledge tutorial on maintaining signs.

UMSN-IT recommends reviewing their videos and articles before attempting to use this service.

Requesting / Removing Access or Hardware

Any request for modifying user access or making changes to the computers that power the TVs can be made to UMSN-IT (nursing-help@umich.edu)

Access Content Manager

To access the Content Manager Desktop you'll need to remote into the server that hosts it.

Here is the guide from central campus on how to remote into the server

Making changes to a Template

After using remote desktop to access the Content Manager server, Launch the Content Manager application that can be found on the Desktop.

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The Content Manager Desktop is broken up in three sections.

1. Upper Left Window Options:
   1. The Network Overview. Which allows you to navigate to the sign you would like to modify
2. Upper Right Window Options:
   1. The TimeLine view. 
3. Bottom window Options:
   1. Content
   2. Templates
   3. App

Navigate to our section of Digital Signs: UniversityOfMichiganDigitalSignage > Academic > SchoolofNursing > Your area of Digital signs

There you'll see different types of icons next to different player functions

• Blue Square - Computer Hardware that is assigned to this location
• Green Playlist - Curated playlist objects, videos, weather, etc
• Satellite - Subscriptions to emergency alerts

Active list of Digital Signs

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