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Faculty & Staff Resources

Digital Signage

Overview

Digital signage is a high profile tool which informs the UBC Sauder community and visitors by featuring information of interest on digital screens throughout the Henry Angus Building at the UBC Vancouver Campus. Faculty, staff members, and approved student groups of UBC Sauder can submit digital signage content. At this stage, external advertising is not permitted.

Submitting content

To submit content, please direct all submissions to the relevant contact:

  1. Undergraduate students can submit digital signs at internal.cus.ca/marketing/sauder-bigscreen/. Contact the CUS at calendar@cus.sauder.ubc.ca with any questions 
  2. Graduate programs and students: Contact mba@sauder.ubc.ca
  3. Faculty and staff: Contact corresponding department
  4. General submissions: Contact bigscreen@sauder.ubc.ca

Please include a post date and a removal date in the email for each submission. Specific post times (between 8am-4pm) can be requested, otherwise content will be entered into a 24 hour rotation. Please see Section 6: Submitting Content in the Digital Signage Guidelines for complete submission details including mandatory file naming structure, file format, and content specifications.

Submission timeline 

Monday Wednesday Friday
Reception sends an email reminder to submit new content. Content must be submitted by 4pm. Reception posts approved content for the upcoming week by the end of day.

 

Note: Please email bigscreen@sauder.ubc.ca to be added to the weekly email reminder list.

Digital signage guidelines

Please ensure that all submitted content complies with the Digital signage guidelines. If content does not follow the guidelines, it will be returned for adjustment and resubmission. 

Section 1: Overview 
Section 2: Content Standards
Section 3: Design Guidelines
Section 4: Content Specifications
Section 5: Templates 
Section 6: Submitting Content 
Section 7: Contact Information

Digital signage templates

There are several templates available for different purposes, all of which come with fixed photo, colour, and text specifications. If different templates are required, please contact Marketing and Communications

Full image template
Option 1
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Half image template
Option 1
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Option 3
Option 4

No image
Option 1
Option 2

Third image template
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Option 3

Two thirds image template
Option 1
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Option 3

Note: When pasting text into the templates, please ensure that all text formatting is removed (e.g. copy and paste from Notepad, not Microsoft Word), so that all formatting within the template is preserved.

For UBC Sauder Digital Signage hardware or monitor issues, CoolSign training and access, please contact the UBC Sauder Help Desk. UBC Sauder Faculty Publications are created by staff members in the David Lam Library and Canaccord Learning Commons.  Faculty Members are to email sauder.publications@ubc.ca to ensure that any new publications displayed expeditiously.