appspace
Appspace
To Begin
- Email Miranda Redenbaugh (mredenbaugh@uchicago.edu) or Ben Zhao (ravenben@cs.uchicago.edu)to receive Appspace access. If you are a student, please cc your advisor.
- You will be assigned a display if your lab does not already have one
- Once you receive your invite from Appspace, use your CNETID to log in.
Approval
- All actions regarding content will be approved by Miranda Redenbaugh.
- Adding and changing playout properties are all included in this process
- You will not need to send an email to receive this approval. Miranda will get an automated email letting her know content is pending approval.
- Once Miranda approves or denies your content, you will get an email with her decision.
Allowed Content Types
- Make sure that the content is optimized for the display (1920 x 1080)
- Images Types:
- PNG
- JPEG
- GIF
- Video Types:
- MP4
- MPEG
- WMV
- When using a video format, sound will not be heard on the displays. Sound should be avoided if possible within the content.
- Website URL:
- How to Add
- Select the Library Menu
- Select Create
- Click on Feed on the left-hand side
- Select the Web View template
- Enter the website URL and leave the embed option as Native Webview
- Press Save in the top right corner to finalize the changes
- Youtube or any other video platforms should not be used unless all advertisements have been removed.
- URLs will only be displayed for the standard 8 seconds. This will happen even if the URL has not finished displaying content.
- For exemptions regarding the content duration, please contact Miranda Redenbaugh.
Menus
- Dashboard
- This page is the homepage and has synopses of information from other menus.
- Library
- This is the content library and includes content from all channels.
- You can add any content from the library to your channel.
- Channels
- This is where you can see the channels you are allowed to edit.
- Channels correlate to devices, meaning you can think of them as the device(s) you can edit.
- Integrations
- This page is for administrators only. You will see that you do not have access.
Adding Slides to a Channel
- Select the Library Menu
- Select Create
- Either upload previously created content or use/edit a template
- Select Schedule on the right-hand side
- Select which channel(s) you would like to add the content to
- Schedule the start/end dates that you want the content to be displayed
- Press Save in the top right corner to finalize the changes
Removing Slides from a Chanel
- Select the Channel Menu
- Select the channel you would like to remove the content from
- Select the three dots to the right of the content you would like to remove
- Select Remove
Disabling/Enabling Content
- Select the Channel Menu
- Select the channel you would like to remove the content from
- Select the three dots to the right of the content you would like to remove
- Select disable to keep content on the channel, but not display it.
- This can be useful if you plan to show the same content at different times throughout the year
- Once content is disabled, you can enable it if you would like it to display it again
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