Innovation Generation Ohio is an initiative that gives high school students in Central Ohio State the support they need to develop skills essential for today’s working environment. It links schools and colleges with local businesses and provides high school students with practical career credentials needed to enter the workforce.

A public tender was issued for the implementation of a centralised digital signage network for all the schools and districts involved. Coffman Media based in Dublin, Ohio, was selected as the preferred supplier and awarded a 5 year contract to implement and manage an end-to-end digital signage solution, powered by Signagelive.

The multi-campus digital signage solution comprises in excess of 500 existing and new commercial-grade displays installed and utilized across 30 schools throughout Central Ohio State. All deployed media players have been preloaded with Signagelive’s cloud-based software, making implementation a straightforward process requiring no technical expertise.

A number of the school districts have even incorporated digital signage management processes into their computer graphics work-based experience programmes to give students firsthand experience of a real world digital signage application.

Using Signagelive’s intuitive CMS, Coffman Media has created a bespoke, three-zone template to display different content types and formats. The primary zone is dedicated to short videos and testimonials relating to the initiative to raise awareness, the second zone features relevant RSS and TV feeds and the third zone is used for promotional purposes by the different sponsors.

Coffman Media uses Signagelive’s scheduling tools to set up and manage content that is cross-district or location-specific, depending on requirements, as part of its managed service contract. Signagelive’s software automatically renders all uploaded content types and formats so it displays correctly on multiple screen sizes deployed in the different schools.

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