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We caught up with Chris Wood, Digital Lead at Portsmouth College, to see how things have been in this crucial ‘back to school’ phase.
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Edinburgh Academy found TrilbyTV's digital signage software really easy to setup. Take a look at how they utilised our unlimited screen plan.
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Virtual Jersey TechWeek kicks off from the 16th October, the event celebrates the very best in tech and you can register for free!
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TrilbyTV has just released 40 slides showing Black pioneers via our Content Catalogue for Black History Month 2020!
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So what did Neil learn during his 100 days of of 5K runs and 20K cycles raising money for The Matt Kendall Foundation and The NHS?
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The Great British September Clean kicks off from the 11th until the 27th. The team at TrilbyTV also pledged some time to make a difference.
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TrilbyTV is proud to announce an exciting new partnership with the Vocabulary Ninja!
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As UK education starts to think about emerging from lockdown the importance of staff, and pupil health and safety will be paramount.
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We had the pleasure of catching up with ICT Systems Manager Daniel (Dan) Sapseid and Deputy Head, Nick Brown at The Academy, Selsey.
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Education Case Study
Many of our new customers have the same issue, they had a digital signage solution but now it lays dormant. Too difficult to use, with the IT department inundated with requests daily, asking them to put on new content.
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Back in May we wrote about how Portsmouth College are using digital content to communicate across their campus.
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So what’s involved when it comes to outdoor digital signage and does our platform even work in this environment?
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Since installing TrilbyTV's easy to use digital signage system the reaction from both staff and pupils has been fantastic.
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Recently we spoke to John Jones, Director of Innovation at RGS Worcester about their return to school phase and how TrilbyTV would help with this.
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We are pleased to announce TrilbyTV's digital signage platform works seamlessly with Airtame wireless presentation devices.
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When it comes to returning to school, signage software has never been so important. It has a vital role in relaying important information.
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Here's the TrilbyTV guide to using Adobe Spark Post, showing you how easy it is creating content for your school digital signage.
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Back in February, we went to visit Ysgol Glan Morfa in Splott, Cardiff to talk to Headteacher Meilir Tomos about digital signage and how it’s impacted his school.
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Stuart Hammersley, Head of Digital Learning at Thomas's Kensington told us how TrilbyTV’s public links feature works seamlessly with other platforms.
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After our feature on how Micklefield School have been utilising TrilbyTV’s Public Links feature, we’ve had a fantastic response!
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Education technology is key sectors to helping the next generation still gain access to learning during these unusual times.
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Education Case Study
As a JISC Effective Use of Technology award-winning college, Portsmouth College understands the importance of communication to both staff and students.
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Education Case Study
We went to visit Norwich University of the Arts (NUA) who have been using TrilbyTV's digital signage software for just over a year.
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Education Case Study
Ysgol Glan Morfa installed digital signage into their new school building and of course TrilbyTV was the first port of call.
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Micklefield’s teachers have been creating learning videos and using the TrilbyTV Public Links feature to share them via Showbie.
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I thought that it's time to do my bit. For the next 100 days I will on alternate days run 5K and cycle 20K giving a total of 1250K.
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TrilbyTV Web Players allow a mix of all content types shared via a single URL or embed code. As with all things TrilbyTV, the process is very simple.
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We created our Public Links feature as the perfect way for our customers to share all content types beyond the school and college gates.
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So many times I have walked into a staff room to find the screen turned off. Originally meant for weekly meetings but rarely used for that purpose.
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Education Case Study
As many of you know, we went to visit Bristol Grammar School back in November last year. After chatting to Director of ICT, Matt Nice, we just had to have an Under the Hat session.
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Updates
Helping to keep your signage current and up-to-date. Here at TrilbyTV, we are so lucky to have very active and inspirational customers who love to keep their school digital screens looking fresh.
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Education Case Study
At TrilbyTV we love road trips, especially when we’re heading to one of the UK’s leading independent schools! So on a pretty miserable winter’s day, we made our way over to Essex to visit Brentwood School.
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Education Case Study
Digital Signage is having a huge impact in many independent schools across the UK and it’s great for TrilbyTV to be a part of that, offering a simple solution that is MADE for education.
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I’m currently 3 months into my second trip through south-east Asia after completing a 4-month trip the year before.
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So Bett 2020 is over 😥 but we had an absolute cracker of a show 😃. In fact, we would say it was probably the best to date, so bring on Bett 2021! It was great to introduce so many inspirational individuals to TrilbyTV.
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Our latest development for early 2020 has been around a new feature in TrilbyTV which we will be launching later in the spring called Content Catalogue. While we would like to see staff and students sharing this role, we wanted to help out a little and that’s where the idea for the Content Catalogue came from.
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Customers were asked to think about where screens were placed, who was viewing them and for how long. If you can answer these questions then you can start to think about what content is needed on what screens.
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Right from day one, I've always loved this show. It’s the worlds biggest and most well-known education show over four days, so what's not to love!
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Just in time for Christmas 2019 we're releasing an update to the Web Content in TrilbyTV. With improved support for Google Slides, YouTube and RSS content.
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Education Case Study
As you all know, we love visiting our customers to say hello and see their digital signage in “the flesh”. This gives us a chance to check out the different ways in which schools are championing student voice.
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At TrilbyTV we love success stories, especially when our software has served as a crucial solution to a digital signage system. So we were really stoked to see the latest case study produced by our friends at IT reseller Jigsaw24.
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On one of the rare hot days in September, we headed down to St Anthony’s Catholic Primary School in Kingshurst, Birmingham to check out their digital signage. Walking through the playground, we admired their awesome converted library bus in front of a backdrop of deep, blue sky.
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Articles
Although the resources are there, digital signage is usually left neglected. Here's what you should be doing to help switch on your digital signage!
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Our Twitter Feed content item puts the latest tweets from a chosen user full screen on your digital signage. Our new hashtags filter feature is a great way to customise this content when displayed on your screens.
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Last month I was delighted to find out I’d been made a digital ambassador for the island of Jersey. “So how did this happen Neil” I hear you ask?Jersey will always be a special place in my heart and in my family's heart and I am extremely proud to be accepted as a Digital Jersey Ambassador.
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At TrilbyTV we love learning more about our customers, finding out what they’ve been sharing and the positive impact that digital signage is having on their stakeholders. Our first Under the Hat piece is from Dan Oakes from St Bartholomew's Primary Academy in Swindon, Wiltshire.
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Twitter is an amazing tool for CPD with some of the UK's leading educators regularly sharing content, tips and ideas. When TrilbyTV's own Neil Emery spotted a tweet from @michaelokaneedu, he reached out to see if what he created could be shared to the TrilbyTV community and beyond.
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At TrilbyTV, we believe that you shouldn’t have to pay for the privilege of growing your digital signage estate. That’s why we created the Unlimited Screen package.
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Events
TrilbyTV, the number one signage platform made for education, will be showcasing at Plug in to Exertis 2019 - 5th Nov 2019. The Vox Birmingham plays host to this years exhibition of all things Audio Visual.
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Education Case Study
One of TrilbyTV's most valued customers Bishop Chavasse Primary School has recently renewed their unlimited screen license for a further three years. It's great to see how committed our customers are in ensuring that their communities and stakeholders are kept informed with what's going on while sharing the achievements of their pupils.
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It’s almost time to go back to school, a time where making a strong impression really counts. Your screen in reception is a fantastic way to showcase why you’re the best. But how do you do that? A screen is just a screen, it’s not hardware alone that makes your visitors, pupils or staff stop and take notice.
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It’s a question and statement Neil and myself frequently hear at meetings and trade events. There is no reason that we don’t wear them, other than looking like the blues brothers. There are however some reasons behind the name TrilbyTV.
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Slideshows are a great way to get a set of images on your TV screens, whether its a selection of photos from a recent trip added via the web app or tablet, a menu in your canteen area made up of a series of images from your catering supplier, or simply pictures of recent successes or stories.
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Notifications will now pop up when you are nearing the end of your subscription giving you the end date and a quick way to renew. You’ll also get a notification when your TrilbyTV is running low on storage and of course you can use the Content Management tools to clear things out and make some space.
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We’re pleased to announce TrilbyTV’s partnership with ClickView. When ClickView were looking for a digital signage provider to recommend to their customer base, they conducted extensive market research to find the best possible provider.
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The team has been hard at work adding a brand new feature to TrilbyTV - we call it Title Slides. We want digital signage to be simple and easy to use and with Title Slides, keeping signage up to date and looking great is now easier than ever.
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Business Case Study
Providing end of life care for people and families across Birmingham and Sandwell is the primary role of the amazing Birmingham St Mary’s Hospice charity. TrilbyTV has been installed in all of the charity shops as a way for the central marketing and retail teams to provide customer information including current promotions and fundraising activities.
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As a way to get students involved in the everyday life of the school, TrilbyTV can be used as a platform for positive expression and celebration. Images and video of everyone hard at work and enjoying learning say more than any written report and having a regular and easy way to keep everyone up-to-date is part of a healthy school life.
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We recently released some updates to TrilbyTV which offer you a new range of quality settings for your video content. You can now enable your choice of video quality options in the System Dashboard for your account. By toggling the 720p, 1080p or 4K options, you will tell our systems to prepare higher quality video for playback on your signage.
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What do we mean by Digital Signage? Remember that TV screen hanging on the wall in reception the one that was turned off when you came in this morning? That’s a potential digital signage screen that could be showcasing the amazing work staff and students are making in the classrooms.
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A big screen is no doubt one way to attract attention. With TrilbyTV and a G4K Pro, it can be a simple setup. Schools sometimes ask us for multi-display video walls and our answer is yes, anything is possible, but think about the content. Let's take a look at the excitement a bigger video wall can bring to your school and the practicalities of making it work.
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Imagine the scene - a school full of students working away, then a flake of snow drifts down, followed by another, then another then a full deluge. Wouldn’t it be handy if you could announce that the site would be closing early and have a message showing on all of your digital signage screens? That's one perfect use for the new Announcement feature in TrilbyTV.
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We’ve had a busy few weeks of making new things for TrilbyTV in the run-up to the end of the year and have released a bumper set of features in version 4.2 of TrilbyTV. Some were covered in our December newsletter, and a few crept in unnoticed!
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Earlier in 2018, we relaunched TrilbyTV with a new look and feel, updated editing tools and a more robust mobile interface. During the redesign, the iPad app got put on the back burner while we improved our mobile interface to make it more usable on all devices. Apparently, it’s not all iPads out there! We are really […]
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Join us in a triumphant return of content management tools after our big relaunch this year, making it really easy to bulk change your content. Using the filtering and search tools, you can quickly find multiple items of content in your TrilbyTV account and perform bulk actions, allowing you to quickly change approval, sharing, change playback or […]
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As we have continued to grow the TrilbyTV community, the ability for us to work with other platforms has become an important part of our development approach. A growing number of schools are now using Google’s G Suite set of applications and this gives us the opportunity to create stronger integration with the way the […]
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Digital signage is like any technology in that it needs ownership and ideas, otherwise its just a screen on the wall. These are the words I used when delivering a TrilbyTV training session to teachers at Micklefield School this week. Micklefield School have been part of the TrilbyTV sharing and showcasing community for two years […]
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We’ve visited well over 1,000 schools on our travels as technology trainers and we have certainly seen our fair share of school reception areas. This is the entrance point to the school, the place where visitors, parents and occasionally Ofsted inspectors, get their first impression.
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Education Case Study
When Plymouth College of Art were looking to upgrade their digital signage they found TrilbyTV to be the perfect fit as David Jones, Head of IT explains.
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Today’s post comes from a guest, Jamie Taylor, Technical Manager at JTRS in the UAE. Jamie recently helped deploy TrilbyTV into a commercial environment, taking advantage of some unique displays. Here’s Jamie with more.
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We’re often asked about different types of content to show on TrilbyTV, things like Weather for the locality and countdown clocks which show a number of days to go to a big event. We don’t have these built into TrilbyTV, but the Web Content feature allows you to tap into a wealth of online tools which […]
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Schools often aren’t set up to make great portrait content so here are a few ideas on how this can be achieved.
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Since the release of version 4 of TrilbyTV back in February 2018 we’ve made a few tweaks and improvements that may have passed you by. Here’s a rundown of some v4 tips you may find useful.
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A lot of the sites we visit on a daily basis purchased signage in a different era. A time where a screen was seen as a holding device. A display of sorts to give people ‘something to do’ while they sat in a waiting area. To cover all interests the screen would often be packed […]
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Version 4 of TrilbyTV, released on 1st Feb, introduces some new features to TrilbyTV, including the much-requested ability to change colours of tweets and title screen elements. The web app has been completely rebuilt with all of the new features. The iPad app will have similar functionality at release and lots of updates to come! […]
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With the BETT Education Show fast approaching it reminds me TrilbyTV will soon be blowing the candles out on its 2nd Birthday. Launched at BETT 2016 we’ve been working hard over the last 20 months changing the mindset and switching digital signage in schools back on.
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Twitter is all about sharing and that’s why we built Tweet displaying right into TrilbyTV. We know schools and teachers love posting their daily updates on Twitter and it’s a great way of engaging with parents and the wider community.
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Like many technology change projects, Portsmouth College set out to enhance the relationship with students by encouraging the take up of a personal tablet device, in their case iPad. There is no doubt that the technology has brought new and exciting elements to teaching at the college and one of the ways this is delivered […]
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Once a year, I and fellow TrilbyTV director Ben Stanley, would be invited to the staff Summer Conference at Blenheim High School to run tech focused workshops and support their one-to-one iPad project. It was a couple of days we really enjoyed and over a number of years we became part of the furniture. I […]
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The CleverTouch range of screens are becoming increasingly popular in classrooms as a viable Interactive White Board (IWB) alternative. A large format screen has many advantages over a projector and board combo, mainly the brightness the screen brings which means finally the blinds can be left open and everyone in the room can clearly se […]
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TrilbyTV was developed after years of walking into schools to find a very lonely and unloved TV screen located in reception. That screen was either turned off or playing content that had no connection to the students. Actually it had no connection to most of the stakeholders associated with that school. Working at the coal […]
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The Digital School for a Digital World Our children and young people are growing up in an increasingly digitised world. Every aspect of their future lives will feel the impact of new technologies. So shouldn’t their school reflect this? The E2BN conference 2017 focuses on the use of digital technologies across the whole school – […]
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We are excited to announce a brand new feature to TrilbyTV – Twitter Feeds. Our mission to switch on your signage means looking at where your content is and making it super easy to get it on your screens. Today we’re marching forward on our mission allowing you to get more of your content on […]
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We’re beginning to get festive here at TrilbyTV HQ (probably due to the arrival in town of Birmingham’s Frankfurt Christmas Market) and are pleased to announce our 2016 Christmas competition open to all schools in the TrilbyTV community. It’s a simple to enter competition, we just want to see a Christmas message from your school […]
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BETT 2016 ICT company of the year winner are installing TrilbyTV as their digital signage platform of choice TrilbyTV has certainly been turning quite a few educational heads in the last few months and making some significant new friends. One new friend we are very proud to be working with is education-focused ICT Managed Services […]
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Embedded Players are great for projects TrilbyTV already offers simple sharing of individual videos with our Public Access tools, letting you share a video page by link or QR code, or embed a single video on your own website. But what if you have a group of videos in a project? We’re pleased to introduce […]
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TrilbyTV and partners would like to invite you to join us for a locally sourced breakfast. Followed by a morning of fun and engaging sessions looking at how digital signage can be used to share, showcase and evidence pupil progress. The hands on sessions will be full of creative activities and prizes will be awarded […]
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Articles
I’m an 80’s boy so grew up listening to Ska music and bands such as Madness. One of my favourite Madness songs was “You’re an Embarrassment” and this definitely describes how some schools feel about the digital signage they once purchased. It’s a conversation I’ve had a lot lately with colleagues at TrilbyTV, resellers promoting […]
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I’m seeing good old Benjamin Blooms taxonomy being used a lot in education especially where technology is involved. It is used as a reminder that when we are using digital tools to do more than research we start to promote those higher order thinking skills. Our tablets in the classroom are great at helping us […]
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One of our intentions when we developed TrilbyTV was to encourage schools to create more engaging and exciting content on the digital screens they have around the school. From the screen in reception where parents, visitors and some students will see it; through to the screen in the corridors which students walk under several times […]
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Over the last six years I’ve been extremely busy delivering iPad focused training in schools up and down the UK and beyond. During these six years I’ve had a unique insight into how technology is used or not used in schools. One technology very much not used in schools is digital signage and hence I’m […]
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Today we are releasing an update to TrilbyTV for iPad which aims to make the sign up process for new users even easier. As part of our sign up process and to help keep your content private, we require users to enter a TrilbyTV code when they first sign up. This often means a teacher […]
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TrilbyTV is launching great new features to make sharing, showcasing and celebrating work even easier! Thank you to all our users who have given us really useful feedback on how we can improve TrilbyTV. Today we are launching two new features to enhance your use of TrilbyTV.
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Today we’re launching a ton of new features and improvements to TrilbyTV. We just wanted to take this opportunity to say thank you to all our TrilbyTV subscribers for all your feedback over the past year. We are happy to announce that today we’re launching a range of new features for TrilbyTV.
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