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NowBoard for universities
One login for every screen on campus.
Receptions, libraries, teaching blocks and the students’ union. Changed from a phone, in your university’s look.
- Ready-made screens, called Boards: rooms, events, maps and notices
- A campus-wide alert on every screen in seconds
- Pilot one building, then one login for the whole campus
Library: open till midnight
What makes NowBoard different
Five reasons NowBoard is different.
Screens that make you money
Local businesses pay to advertise on your screens. You approve every advert and keep most of what they pay.
Run it from your phone
Change any screen in seconds from a phone, anywhere on campus.
Works on the TVs you have
Android TV, Raspberry Pi, or any Windows PC, Mac or Chromebook in a web browser.
Ready-made for campus
Boards for rooms, events, maps and deadlines. Change a room or a date without a designer.
AI and your own designs
Describe a Board and AI designs it, or lay out your own. No graphic designer needed.
Ad Space share: you keep 70% on Free, 80% on Starter, 87% on Professional and 92% on Enterprise, before card fees. Prices exclude VAT.
Why NowBoard
Every building, one look. One login for all of them.
A university has three other ways to run its screens. Here’s how they compare.
| Built for a whole campus |
A system per facultyEach building bought its own | Room booking screensAt the door of each room | PowerPoint on a PCOn the reception TV | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| One login for the whole campus | ✓Every buildingCentral comms and faculties, one account |
✗A different login in each building | ~Rooms only | ✗One PC, one screen |
| Looks like your university | ✓Your brand on every screenSet once, used everywhere |
~Varies by building | ~Their look | ~If someone designs it |
| Changed from anywhere | ✓From a phoneComms, library, estates, the union |
~Varies | ~Through the booking system | ✗Walk to the PC |
| Campus-wide alert on every screen | ✓One tapEvery building at once, on Professional |
✗Building by building | ~Varies | ✗ |
| Rooms, events and notices together | ✓All in one placeRooms, talks, deadlines, maps |
~Varies | ✗Bookings only | ~Whatever is on the slide |
| What it costs | ✓Free on one TVThen £10–£30 a TV a month. No contract |
~Several contracts to renew | ~Priced per room | ~Staff time, every change |
A general comparison of types of product. Check with each supplier for their latest features and prices. NowBoard prices exclude VAT.
What’s on the wall now
Every faculty bought its own screens. None of them match.
Open day comes round and the comms team finds five systems, three logins and one PC nobody can find. Sound familiar?
The faculty screens
Each building has its own system, its own look and one person who knows the password.
The reception slideshow
A PowerPoint on a PC under the desk. It still says welcome week.
The room change
A lecture moves rooms. The sign on the door is a sheet of A4.
The campus alert
A closure or an emergency needs every screen at once, not building by building.
Your TVs, each with a job
One screen per space. Each one says what that space needs.
Pick a Board, type in your details, and it’s on the TV. Every Board is ready to use, and you can change any of them.
Welcome to the Hub
- Welcome
- Site map
- Open days
Room 2.14
- Room bookings
- Now and next
- Room changes
Talks this week
- Opening hours
- Talks and exhibitions
- Deadlines
Quiz night
- Menus and events
- Societies
- Student deals
The screens shown are examples. Room Boards are kept up to date by your team; NowBoard does not read your lecture timetable.
Scheduling
Plan the term once. The screens follow the day.
Choose when each Board shows, and the library TV changes through the day by itself. Tap a time to see it.
Changing through the day comes with Professional and Enterprise.
Update from anywhere
Room changed? Update it from your phone.
Room change
No email to every student, no A4 on the door. Comms, the library, estates or the union can each change their own Boards from a phone, a tablet or a computer. Try it: change the details and press Update the TVs.
Made for campus
It looks like your university, not like ours.
- Your logo and coloursSet once by central comms. Every building uses the same look.
- Easy to read in a corridorLarge type and strong contrast, read on the way past.
- One thing at a timeNow and Next shows what’s on in a room and what comes after.
- Four languagesEnglish, Welsh, French and Spanish. One language per Board.
Campus alerts
When it matters, every building at once.
One tap puts the same message on every TV on campus. One more tap puts everything back as it was.
Ready-made alerts for a fire, a fire drill, an urgent notice, building work and a missing person, plus your own messages. They come with Professional and Enterprise.
For students and visitors
Students find the room. Visitors find their way.
Welcome, open day visitors
Great Hall: Building A
Café: the Hub
Look for the orange tops
For the whole university
One login. Every building.
Open till midnight
Library
Adds its own hours and talks
Room 2.14
Business School
Adds its own rooms and events
Quiz night
Students’ union
Runs its own menus and gigs
Getting it on the TV
It works on the TVs you already have.
Any TV with an HDMI socket will do. Each TV needs an internet connection, over Wi-Fi or a cable.
The NowBoard app
Runs on compatible Android TVs and TV sticks, a Windows PC, or in a web browser.
Player Pro
A small box that plugs into the TV’s HDMI socket, starts itself and just plays. Optional.
We can fit it for you
Our installer comes to your campus. UK only.
All prices exclude VAT. If we supply a TV, you pay what it costs us. Your IT team may need to allow the screens on the campus network.
Optional · Ad Space
Your screens can make you money.
Ad Space is off unless you turn it on. You choose which screens show adverts, and you approve every one.
Who might advertise? Businesses students use: takeaways, gyms, letting agents, bike shops, local events. The union can sell its own sponsor slots too. You decide what fits your campus.
An example, not a promise of income: what you earn depends on what you sell. NowBoard takes a share of each advert (Starter 20%, Professional 13%, Enterprise 8%; 30% on Free). Card payment fees come off before you are paid. Prices exclude VAT.
Pricing
Pay per TV. Start free.
Pay monthly with no contract, or pay yearly and get 2 months free. Paid plans have as many Boards as you like and no NowBoard logo.
Free
- One TV
- Up to 5 Boards
- Rooms, events, notices and more
- Your logo and colours
- Shows the NowBoard logo
Starter
- As many TVs as you need
- As many Boards as you like
- Something different on each TV
- Every Board design and style
- Design your own Boards
Professional
- Everything in Starter
- Boards that change through the day
- Campus and emergency alerts
- Describe a Board and AI designs it
Enterprise
- Everything in Professional
- For universities
- Help setting up every campus
- A team who knows your group
- Lower prices for large groups
All prices exclude VAT. For example, one building with 30 TVs. Lower prices from 100 TVs.
Next steps
Pilot one building this term.
Let’s get your first building going.
We can set it up with you on a call, or come and fit it.
- Start free
- app.nowboard.tv/register
- hello@nowboard.tv
- Website
- nowboard.tv