Digital Signage for Private Schools

Private schools are known for their high standards in state-of-the-art facilities and academic excellence. The keep these high standards, private schools need to attract honor students and compete for top recruits. Digital signage offers the education industry four main advantages that help create the "wow factor" in attracting top notch students.

Staff and Student Communication

Digital message boards have the ability to catch students' attention and communicate multiple messages quickly, unlike static bulletin boards or printed posters. Students can be instantly informed of speakers, sporting events, honor student achievements and gracious donors. During emergencies, a digital signage network can display emergency information and alert staff as well as students.

Dynamic Lunch Menus

During their lunch hour, students are either sitting down to eat or standing in lines to get their food. This is the perfect time to catch their attention and inform them of local weather, stock market updates, breaking headline news, or local and world events.

Financial Trading Lab

For schools with a business focus, digital signage offers an innovative opportunity to provide students with mock trading rooms to simulate the stock markets and prepare business minded students for college. State-of-the-art equipment is a great way to promote any private school's academic focus and attract attention from families and visitors interested in enrolling their students.

Donor Walls

Private schools have a good amount of distinguished alumni, business partners and generous donors that have helped to expand and improve the facilities over a period of time. While most donor walls carry etched glass and wood plaques to honor their donors, a more advanced option is to build an interactive experience that tells a story. Digital signage can be used to display multiple pictures, video and share a larger amount of information about a donor's donation and how it was used to better the institution.

Students of all ages these days are constantly having their attention fought over by iPhones, text messaging, Twitter, Facebook and other online communities. Schools across the country are beginning to realize the advantages of having digital signage compete for their students' attention.

Digital Signage Today. "How high schools can benefit from digital signage." Ryan Cahoy. 3 Feb. 2010
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