Digital Signage

The James and Anne Duderstadt Center/TECHNOLOGIES/Digital Signage

The Duderstadt Center (DC) offers advanced digital signage and room status displays to improve accessibility and enhance the experience for faculty, students, staff and visitors. These tools provide real-time updates on event schedules, room availability, building directories and emergency alerts.

What is Digital Signage?

Image of a digital sign in the Duderstadt Center Atrium that is displaying weather, the time, the Duderstadt Center logo, and an advertisement for a Year of Democracy event.

Digital signage allows departments, organizations, and event coordinators to showcase announcements, schedules, and other relevant content on screens in public areas. Whether you’re advertising an upcoming event, sharing research highlights, or providing general information, our digital signage system helps ensure your message reaches the right audience.

Digital Signage Displays

Image of a digital sign outside design lab 2 that is displaying weather, the time, the Duderstadt Center logo, and an advertisement for a summer music technology camp.

These are TV sized screens located throughout the Duderstadt Center that showcase a rotation of information, including events, room availability, bus schedules, and relevant content. The 11 digital signs are located across all four DC floors as well as the connector hallway, conference room hallway, audio/video studios hallway, and outside each of the design labs in the Central Collaboration Area. Maps for each floor are embedded below and a larger more accessible version is available on Lucid Spark. These signs utilize the UM-ITS Digital Signage platform and display content from both the ITS Digital Signage Community Content feed and submissions made directly to the Duderstadt Center. Information on submitting content is available below.

Interactive Room Schedule Displays

Image of a CAEN Interactive Room Schedule Display from an angle mounted on a brown brick wall

Many high-demand Duderstadt Center spaces now feature Interactive Room Schedule Displays, developed by CAEN, with additional deployments planned for all DC reservable rooms. These displays help users quickly check room availability and schedule changes. Content cannot be submitted for display on the iPads.

Who Can Use Digital Signage?

Our digital signage display system is available for use by:

  • University colleges and departments and organizations promoting events or services
  • Faculty, staff, and students sharing research, projects, or campus-related announcements
  • Campus partners looking to engage the University of Michigan community

How to Submit Content?

Prepare Your Content

Create an image file that that meets our guidelines. Submissions that do not meet the guidelines will not be approved and will not enter into the content rotation.

  • Landscape images should be 3840×2160 and Portrait 2160×3840.
  • Only one image can be uploaded at a time. The answers to the questions are used to sort an image to the appropriate displays; i.e. this image is portrait and for Students and Faculty, where as this image is landscape and for Faculty & Staff.
  • For DC / DMC staff, templates for Digital Signage are being created and will be available in the DC-Shared folder by the end of Winter term 2025.
Submit Your Request

Have your event or update featured by completing either the Duderstadt Center Digital Signage Content Submission form or the U-M Digital Signage Community Content Submission form on the ITS website. The DC signs display a combination of the U-M Community Content Feed, content submitted directly to the Duderstadt Center, and various feeds of live data.

  • If you’ve already submitted your content to the Community Content Feed you do not need to complete the Duderstadt Center Digital Signage Content Submission. Your content will be displayed once approved by ITS and no further steps are required.
  • If you want your content displayed outside the Duderstadt Center as well, we strongly encourage you to instead submit your images to the UM Community Content Feed.
  • If you have images you want displayed on specific displays for an event, etc. submit your content directly to the DC using the Duderstadt Center Digital Signage Content Submission form where you have the ability to select specific displays. 
Approval & Scheduling

Your Duderstadt Center Digital Signage Submission submission will be reviewed by the DC Digital Signage administrators within two business days of receipt. Upon approval, it will be included in the content rotation as applicable and displayed on the requested screens throughout the Duderstadt Center.

If submitting using the U-M Digital Signage Community Content Submission will be reviewed by the U-M Digital Signage administrators within two business days of receipt. Upon approval, it will be included in the content rotation and displayed on screens throughout the Duderstadt Center and the broader UM community.

Need Assistance?

If you have questions regarding DC digital signage please contact us at dc-dsw-content-managers@umich.edu

DC Digital Signage Locations

Map of the first floor digital signage and iPad locations.

1 – Atrium – Pierport Side
2 – Atrium – Mujo Side
3 – Visualization Studio
4 – Design Lab 2
5 – Video Studio / Audio Studio A
6 – Design Lab 1
7 – Conference Room / Personal Studio Hallway
8 – Connector Hallway

Map of the second floor digital signage and iPad locations.

9 – Second Floor Atrium

Map of the third floor digital signage and iPad locations.

10 – 3rd Floor Atrium

Map of the lower level digital signage and iPad locations.

11 – Lower Level Atrium