How to Deliver More Than Just Announcements with BenQ Boards

Scheduling messages can be a great way to send to all or selected devices with smart grouping or tags. You can read more here about these and other functions.

Do you wish to remind everyone about the deadline for registering for that 6^th grade trip you’ve been planning? Send a reminder for the last three minutes of each class on the devices you know your 6^th graders are looking at.

Trying to promote better hygiene and hand disinfection before and after class in the post-pandemic reality? Set a message popup for the last minute of class on all your school’s displays, as well as hallway signage during breaks.

Do your students have a habit of staying in classrooms during breaks? With X-Sign Broadcast you can push YouTube videos to all or selected displays.

Some of our customers like to use that solution to display a “word of the day” series of videos they’ve created or found on the internet for foreign language learning. 

You may also choose to display certain music videos or animations for fun and entertainment. As a social distancing measure, some schools are trying to keep students within classrooms to control the amount of contact they have with other students in hallways and thus try to limit exposure to germs across different classrooms. This can be a good way to give your students additional motivation to stay in their classroom.

With tags and smart grouping, you can show different videos to students of different grades, as naturally your 6^th graders are interested in different things than your 1^st graders.

Sometimes you need to communicate something RIGHT NOW with the whole school. From serious emergencies like a kitchen fire in the cafeteria to surprise ice cream trucks waiting for your students outside, X-Sign Broadcast is a great way to communicate all that and more!

Use interrupt mode to send instant message to all or selected displays. If you choose to send a text message, we recommend you set a red background and bold fonts to ensure your message is seen. You can also lock the message to make sure teachers don’t swipe up to hide the message by accident or otherwise. 

You can also send a video message. Pre-recorded is the safe option here. You can upload your message to YouTube or local or cloud storage, then send it out using interrupt mode. As YouTube also supports live streaming now, X-Sign Broadcast allows you to be seen and heard on each BenQ board at your school simultaneously. How cool is that!

If your school is like most, teacher parent conference days still take place in classrooms that are assigned to teachers. If that’s the case, use broadcasts to display a warm welcome message. Parents for sure will appreciate the nice touch and thought.

You can schedule such messages ahead of time, and use a nice, colorful graphic to display along with your welcome message. Perhaps some simple, custom-made graphic with your school’s logo on it? With free online design tools like Canva it’s never been easier to design attractive graphics in a simple and easy way that you can quickly learn to use.