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Digital Signage for Universities and Colleges

Most universities struggle to communicate with their audience. At Rise Vision, we provide digital signage software that keeps everyone in the know.

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In higher education, digital signage has become an integral part of how universities share dynamic updates. The pace of information sharing feels daunting these days but digital signage can keep your entire campus informed in just minutes. With digital signage, you can remotely manage a network of signs, share events and announcements, keep your campus safe by publishing your health protocols and emergency notifications, and help students navigate.

 

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Is Digital Signage Right for Your Campus Communications?

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Engagement is a high priority for most colleges and universities. If you want your messaging to stand out, digital signage and integrated systems to aid communications can increase engagement among your students, faculty, staff, and visitors. The clear content and vivid imagery can be targeted to reach a variety of audiences, depending on the placement.

Once campus life returns to some semblance of normal, digital signage in the student union or cafeteria can provide current information or menu changes with a few keystrokes. Digital boards in staff and faculty gathering places can provide reminders of upcoming meetings or testing schedules.

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If you choose to, various departments can have access to their own digital signage, specific to their audience and communications needs. Or, with a cloud-based system, you have the option of controlling your messaging from one location. Whether you are striving to support distance learning, or eventually attendance at sporting events, or to draw attention to your esteemed guest speakers, digital signage can make it much easier.

Rise Vision provides easy-to-use templates that can be branded with your university’s logo and messaging. Your staff can save on average 16 hours a week using digital technology. And our free weekly training seminars and tips continue to keep you inspired and connected.

“Rise Vision has allowed us to have great-looking, dynamic, and interactive digital displays at a fraction of the cost compared to what other schools are doing, and ours look better!”

— David Fassler, Washington State University
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Why Rise Vision for Campus Digital Signage?

University digital signage doesn’t have to be complicated. Rise Vision offers digital signage solutions designed for educational institutions of every size. From small colleges to large universities, we provide a perfect solution for effective digital signage that enhances communication across your campus community. Whether you’re sharing important messages, promoting upcoming events, or helping prospective students navigate campus with interactive wayfinding, our platform is built to support student engagement and smooth operations.

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Simple Pricing

School digital signage shouldn’t break the budget. Our simple pricing model helps universities save hundreds compared to other digital signage systems. No contracts, no hidden fees, you can cancel anytime. That makes Rise Vision the perfect solution for schools and colleges looking to modernize campus communications without overspending.

Communicate Everywhere

Communicate Everywhere

Keep your entire campus community connected. From classroom displays to cafeteria menu boards, student unions, and meeting rooms, our system allows you to share important announcements, event schedules, and real-time updates. Rise Vision helps you engage students and faculty by delivering relevant information in seconds, far more effectively than paper flyers.

Safe And Secure

Safe And Secure

School safety is a top priority. Rise Vision is hosted in Google Cloud and undergoes an annual security audit to ensure your network is protected. Use our digital signage plays to display content like alerts, breaking news, or messages about campus events instantly, giving your community the peace of mind that critical updates will never be missed.

Cloud Based Digital Signage Software

Cloud-Based

Our cloud-based platform eliminates the need for servers and clunky software. All you need is a browser and an internet connection to schedule content and manage displays. This single platform makes it easy to coordinate across multiple users, ensuring consistent communication and brand consistency across every corner of campus.

Amazing Support

Amazing Support

We know digital signage only works if your team feels confident. That’s why our support goes beyond troubleshooting; we provide videos, phone, email, and remote help tailored to your school’s needs. Our experts can even guide your staff through content creation, showing how to display content like meetings, upcoming events, and campus wayfinding signage to enhance communication and the overall student experience.

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“The support has been fantastic - we asked a few curly questions and instead of just receiving a generic email response, we were also given customized screencasts explaining solutions and options in great detail. I haven’t had that experience with any other tech company before.”

— Iain Brew, Macquarie University
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Ease And Functionality

Need to update menu items and prices? Want to add or remove menu items? Nothing beats digital menus when it comes to quickly updating, editing and changing menu signage. Traditional menus require painstaking hours of physically removing menu items and prices. Digital menus can be edited in seconds and done from your office desk or on the go.

No Proprietary Hardware

No Proprietary Hardware

Don’t get locked into expensive, proprietary systems. Rise Vision works with Chrome OS, Windows, Raspberry Pi, and Linux media players. This flexibility lets you repurpose existing screens across your college campus, from room signs to wayfinding signage, helping you create dynamic content without additional hardware costs.

Time-Saving Integrations

Time-Saving Integrations

Save time while looking professional. Our templates integrate seamlessly with Google Slides, social media feeds, news, and weather to deliver dynamic, branded content. You can promote events, highlight club meetings, or share event schedules in seconds. With interactive solutions like QR code scanning and interactive maps, you can guide students and visitors while improving the student experience across campus.

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Plus! All these enterprise features …

All of the features you need to manage your campus digital signage network.

Unlimited Accounts And Account Hierarchy
Organize your unlimited accounts in a hierarchy. Create a parent account and child accounts below. Parent account users can access any child account, while child account users can only access their own account.

Emergency Alerts
Keep your campus safe. Integrate Rise Vision with your emergency notification system to send CAP alerts to all of your displays in the event of an emergency.

Unlimited Users And User Roles
Users can have four distinct user roles to give you granular control over what they can, and can’t do.

Scheduling By Time, Date, And Location
Tailor your message based on the date, time of day, and location. This lets you share the right information at the right time to the right audience.

Display Dashboard, Monitoring, Offline Play
View the status of your network at a glance, be alerted if a display goes offline, and never worry about content not continuing to show.

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University Digital Signage Use Cases

Collegiate Sports

When the games begin again, digital signage is a great way to keep everyone informed about specific dates and times. Whether you are calling attention to a football game or track and field trials, making students aware of student activities adds to the enrichment of campus life. After the game or competition, when your team wins, you can highlight the winning score and even feature replays of the key action.

Sharing Health Information

Key health information can be shared easily and effectively with a template designed to display a series of health messages through a timed rotation. You can also choose messaging that encourages consideration for the health of others.

Special Reminders

As a semester comes to a close, digital signage is a clear, effective way to provide reminder messages to students. Dates of upcoming final exams, the deadline to submit any outstanding term papers, student work, or library books.

Celebrations And Events

Each month represents an opportunity for celebration or heightened awareness of an important topic. Digital signage makes bringing attention to these issues easy. Rise Vision templates stay up to date with the issues affecting our world.

"We're really happy with it! It's only taking up 1% of my time, not because it's less important, it's because there are no problems. The best thing about Rise Vision is ease of use for the end-user. I don't have time to assist everyone personally and help them with their presentations, so it has to be easy for the Non-IT person, which it is"

— Mark Meszar - Kent State University
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Alumni Career Highlights

Many of your graduates go on to become entrepreneurs, scientists, artists, business and nonprofit thought leaders, athletes, scholars, and more. Shining a light on their accomplishments can only encourage others to excel. You can do that through short video stories about their lives, their accomplishments, and their passions that can be displayed on digital signage in prominent places on campus.

Menu Boards

You can create a simple, Monday through Friday menu board, or you can choose a template that contains vivid, high contrast images and a detailed menu of a one-day breakfast, lunch, and dinner menu that changes according to the hours of those serving times in your cafeteria.

Severe Weather Warnings

Depending on your location, providing emergency warnings on campus can save lives. Most severe weather provides some warning before devastation hits, like tornadoes or wildfires. Digital signage provides immediate, accurate, up-to-the-minute updates so students and faculty can evacuate safely.

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The Rise Vision Media Player is a compact, reliable device designed for seamless digital signage, screen sharing, and emergency alerts. With easy setup, cloud management, and flexible purchasing options, it delivers high performance and security.

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Rise Vision’s all-in-one Avocor displays combine a media player and display for stunning 4K visuals, seamless digital signage, screen sharing, and emergency alerts. With easy setup, cloud management, and flexible purchasing options, it delivers high performance and security.

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How Do You Get Started With Digital Signage?

Step 1

Pick a template

To get started with Rise Vision digital signage software,  you’ll first need to pick a template from our website or from this page and then sign up for a free Rise Vision trial account.

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Activate your display

After picking a template and then creating a Rise Vision trial account, it's time to activate your display.

To share Rise Vision to digital signage, you need a digital signage display or TV and a digital signage media player if it isn't built into the TV.

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Keep it interesting

Remember to continue communicating better by subscribing to our free weekly template recommendations, and be sure to attend one of our free weekly training sessions. Also, we’re standing by if there’s any problem; feel free to contact us anytime.

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1. What type of digital signage content works best for a college campus?

Digital signs on a college campus can include class schedules, dining hall menus, promotions, and even student achievements. Using visuals and videos helps capture attention and ensures messages are seen across busy areas.

2. Do universities need special digital signage software to get started?

Yes, most schools benefit from dedicated digital signage software that allows easy updates, scheduling, and remote management. With the right software, multiple departments can contribute content while maintaining consistent branding across campus.

3. Can existing digital displays be used for campus signage?

In most cases, your existing digital displays or TVs can be repurposed as digital signage for universities. With the right media player or built-in compatibility, there’s no need to buy all new equipment, making setup fast and cost-effective.

4. How does digital signage improve campus-wide communication?

Digital signs make campus-wide communication simple by broadcasting consistent information across every building, hallway, and common space. From safety alerts to student announcements, the entire community stays connected in real time.

5. Where should effective digital signage be placed on a college campus?

The best placements on a college campus are high-traffic areas such as libraries, cafeterias, student unions, and entryways. Positioning displays strategically ensures maximum visibility and streamlined campus communication for students, staff, and visitors.

6. What’s the difference between campus-wide digital signage and department-specific displays?

Campus-wide signage is controlled centrally to deliver institution-wide messages like emergency alerts or important deadlines. Department-specific displays, on the other hand, focus on tailored content for students and staff in that area, such as lab schedules or faculty meetings.

7. Can digital signage assist with campus navigation?

Yes, digital signage is an excellent tool for campus navigation. Interactive maps and directional messages help new students and visitors quickly and easily locate classrooms or dorms.

8. How does content management work for campus digital signage?

Management of content is typically handled through cloud-based dashboards where staff can schedule, edit, and monitor displays. This allows administrators to control messaging across the entire campus while giving individual departments flexibility for localized updates.

9. What is campus wayfinding, and how can digital signage help?

Campus wayfinding refers to helping people move around campus effectively. Digital signs support wayfinding by displaying maps, arrows, and directions to guide visitors and students to their destinations, reducing confusion and improving campus flow.

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Creating an account is easy. You can see for yourself how simple the process is, and our weekly free training is meant to keep you and your staff feeling creative and confident. You’ll discover how much time and money you can save by adding cloud communications to your planning. Our choice of templates increases on a monthly basis.

If you have any questions or need any help during the Rise Vision setup process, please feel free to contact us. Our team is on-call and happy to assist you.

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