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Georgia College & State University worked together earlier this year to launch their first campus digital signage network. They worked with Capital Signs to install 16 32" and three 42" high definition displays powered by Scala software. The screens are mounted in various areas, from the student activities centre, classroom buildings to faculty office buildings to the student dining hall.
 
To run the network, the university obtained 12 licenses for Scala Players, Designer, Content Manager and Template Composer EX module. Capital Signs designed all of the graphics and templates stored in Scala Content Manager. Scala Designer is available in the student activities centre, and it is used by the designated system administrator to build new templates and graphics for all users of the digital signage network.
 
Scala Content Manager allows student groups and campus members to add their own messaging to the templates, and it is available to all authorised students with internet access. This gives them the ability to add messages from off-campus housing, as well as computer labs and dormitories.
 
Currently, Capital Signs is integrating campus RSS feeds — the same ones that appear on their Web site — into the digital signage network. They have also installed a Scala Player that will enable the university use the campus cable network to reach the TVs of anyone on campus.
 
“With the Scala solution, GCSU’s opportunity to communicate to the student body has greatly expanded, and it will allow the Student Government Association to simplify and better package a continuous flow of information to students,” said Andy Panos, Vice President of Capital Signs.
 
“Once we really played with the software and functionality, we realized that it is extremely flexible and can be pushed as far as we want,” said Billy Grace, a senator in the Student Government Association. “We’re consistently finding new features and opportunities, and we know that as Bobcat Vision [the digital signage network] grows, we will continue learning how to improve the way we use it.”