Computing & I.T Resources
University of Greenwich drives communications with ONELAN
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he University of Greenwich has 3 campuses in South-East London and North Kent.
The University wanted a way of presenting visual information to staff and visitors across all three campuses, and to improve the feeling of community. The Service Development & Communications team realised that digital signage would fulfil the University’s requirements for better communications, and having selected ONELAN, are testing the system and gradually rolling it out across the University.
The University has the ONELAN Content Management System (CMS) and a ONELAN 4K player driving a 3 x 2 video wall in the main reception at Greenwich. Different zones display bus and train travel information, students’ work and event-specific information. An RSS feed at the bottom shows BBC news.
According to the team “We were pleasantly surprised and indeed impressed when we came across ONELAN/OneMedia. The browser based CMS while easy to navigate is powerful enough to manage multiple players in diverse locations, reducing the need for a physical presence near the displays. Another crucial feature is the ability to devolve content management to various members of a digital signage team. “We are excited to have ONELAN products on board and as a team look forward to developing our University wide digital signage solution.”.
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Epson Partners with Think IT to deliver technology in education E
pson has become the latest big-name partner to join the Think IT procurement framework for schools and colleges... Think IT is a consortium of over 30 of the UK’s best education technology suppliers, including Fujitsu, Groupcall, Netsupport, BrainPOP and Encyclopaedia Britannica.
Think IT’s approach to ICT procurement gives schools the freedom to choose and pay for only what they want and need. There are 18 different categories on the framework, from Print Management to E-Safety and from Virtual Desktop to Finance and everything in between. Think IT work with schools to select the products and services that best fit their needs. This is done through a DfE recognised pre-tendered EU framework, saving them the time and effort involved in going out to tender and comparing quotes.
Paul Turner, Assistant Headteacher, The Swinton High School, said: “The Think-IT framework is a god-send for anyone tasked with buying IT because they do it all for you. They give you the technology and integrate it seamlessly into one package.”
This is an important partnership for Epson and will help towards its goal of giving people in education the tools and technology they need to make learning and teaching interesting, exciting and rewarding. From small classrooms to large lecture theatres, Epson’s wide selection of projectors mean there is a solution for all teaching environments. Its range of award winning ultra-short-throw interactive projectors enables collaborative learning making lessons engaging and memorable. On the print side, Epson’s WorkForce Pro Series of multi-function business inkjet printers are designed to offer high quality output, durability and cost and energy efficiencies making them the ideal printing solution for schools.
For more information on Think IT please go to
http://think-it.org.uk/
Or to read more about Epson in education
www.epson.co.uk/education
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