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Digital Signage

The Arts and Sciences College has worked in conjunction with University Information Technologies to install two digital signs for the College.  Located in the lobby of the St. Augustine Center and the west lobby entrance of the Mendel Science Center, the purpose of these signs is to display University and College news, events, and other special announcements.  Powered by the RISE Display Network software, the College can create announcements that can serve to further educate students, faculty, staff and visitors about the happenings within the College.

Template or Graphic Services

If you had a poster created through Graphic Services you may coordinate with them to produce an accompanying image file suitable for digital signage.

If you did not have a poster created, please use this Microsoft Publisher template to create a bulletin for posting.  Instructions for filling out the template can be found inside the template.  Some familiarity with Publisher is required.  UnIT provides workshops on Publisher.


Announcement Submission Guidelines

It is important to remember that digital and print are different types of medium. A printed poster may not necessarily translate to the digital signage displays.

Please follow these guidelines for announcement submission:

  • Must be provided in JPG, MS Publisher or PDF file format (MS Word documents are not acceptable) JPG is the preferred format
  • Page layout orientation must be landscape (not portrait)
  • The dimensions & resolution should be 770 pixels wide x 510 pixels high (or at least scalable to these dimensions). JPGs (Image files) can be easily resized using Microsoft Office Picture Manager (found under "Microsoft Office Tools" on your computer)
  • Must be a final version, proof-read for spelling and grammatical errors, once an announcement has gone live it cannot be replaced (unless the event is cancelled).
  • Must be provided at least 4 days before the event
  • Do no include narrative and/or too much text or small text
  • Information to be included should be in a large, clear font:
    • Event Name/Title (at least 36 font)
    • Presenter (at least 36 font)
    • Place/ Location (at least 36 font)
    • Date/Time (at least 36 font)
    • Optional (in smaller font size):
      • Event Sponsor(s)
      • Event Headline
      • Logos or other graphics

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Examples of Announcement Guidelines

NOT ACCEPTABLE FOR POSTING: Even though the JPG is landscape, the smaller text will not be readable. 

 

ACCEPTABLE FOR POSTING:  JPG is landscape and the smaller text has been eliminated.