This page describes the options available when adding or editing a Slide. For information on content types and how to create slides, see Slides.
Every slide requires a Title. The title helps you organize your slides in the Dashboard.
Depending on the content type, the title may also be displayed on your screens:
The Show checkbox controls whether the slide is currently displayed on your screens.
Uncheck Show if you want to save a slide without displaying it yet, or to temporarily hide a slide without deleting it.
To show or hide multiple slides at once, use the Action Menu.
Slides can be either Approved or Draft.
Staff with Administrator access can approve slides. Staff with Editor access can create slides, but their slides are saved as Draft and must be approved by an Administrator before going live. This is useful for student media classes or other contributors whose work you want to review before it appears on screens.
The Background Color sets the color shown behind your slide content.
To choose a background color:
With the Full Screen frame, the background color is only visible if your image does not fill the entire screen (i.e. it does not have a 16:9 aspect ratio). For most uploaded images and videos, the background color will not be visible.
If you leave Background Color blank, the default background color from your Frame Design is used.
The Frame field lets you override the default screen layout for an individual slide.
The most common use is to choose Full Screen, which sizes your content to fill the entire screen, hiding the sidebar, ticker, clock, and other frame elements for that slide.
If you want all slides to use Full Screen by default, change the default template in your Frame Design instead.
Leave Frame blank to use the default screen layout from your Frame Design.
Duration sets how many seconds this slide is displayed before the next slide appears.
If left blank, the default duration from your Frame Design is used. Setting a duration here overrides that default for this slide only.
Common durations: - 8–12 seconds for simple text or image slides - 20–30 seconds for slides with more content to read - Match the video length (in seconds) for video slides or YouTube embeds
Duration must be between 5 and 300 seconds.
Use Begin and End to schedule when a slide should be shown.
If both fields are left blank, the slide shows continuously (subject to the Show checkbox and Approved? status).
Times must be entered in 24-hour format. For example, enter
18:00for 6:00 pm.Tip: Setting an End date is the easiest way to manage a large slide set (such as graduation photos) — you can schedule it to stop automatically rather than having to hide or delete each slide later.
Title Position controls whether the slide Title is overlaid over the uploaded image or video, and where it appears.
Choices:
By default, audio is muted on all slides. Check Unmute to allow the audio track of a video or YouTube slide to be heard on the display.
The Unmute option is only available if your media players support audio output. Contact Support if you do not see this option.
Slide Collections let you assign a slide to specific displays rather than showing it everywhere.
If you have set up Slide Collections on your displays (for example, “Gymnasium” or “Hallways”), you can choose which displays this slide will be shown on.
A slide can belong to multiple Slide Collections, so you can show it on a subset of your displays or on all of them.
See Assigning Slides to Specified Displays for full instructions.
When you save a slide, your displays will pick it up as they cycle through all the content.
Check Show Immediately to show the slide immediately, skipping ahead in the usual sequence.
Show Immediately requires push notifications to be configured for your displays. Contact Support if this option is not available.