Google Account. Drive: Create slideshow. Click on New. Click on Google Slides

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1 Google Account Set up or sign in to a Gmail account for your library system. We use a generic Gmail address not tied to the georgialibraries.org domain. Once in your account, find the Google apps icon in the upper right corner, click on it and then on Drive. Drive: Create slideshow Click on New Click on Google Slides Change the name Untitled presentation to one that uniquely identifies the location of the signage. We have one sign per branch, so each slideshow is named for the branch. Create a few placeholder slides with text and/or pictures.

2 Click File > Publish to the web Choose how long you want each slide to show before changing. Check the boxes for auto start and loop slideshow. Copy the link in the box and paste it into a text editor to use later.

3 Our link looks like this: j g kdj1vgs/pub?start=true&loop=true&delayms=30000 Chrome Sign Builder Install & Configuration Go to the Chrome Web Store and search for the Chrome Sign Builder and install.

4 Find the Chrome Sign Builder App in the App Launcher. Right click on it to add it as a shortcut to the desktop or other places if you want to. You shouldn t need to use it often. Launch the app. Create new schedules for each library or individual content that you want. The interface is similar to Google Calendar. When you edit the schedule you can give it a name, choose the screen orientation and set a default url (if you have multiple slideshows or other content this url defines what will show if nothing else is scheduled so you don t have a blank screen).

5 There is an option for Collections but I m not certain what those are. Possibly they are for signage with multiple items and mixed formats on their signs rather than just a slides presentation. Experiment with them if you have the time or desire and let us know! Choose a schedule and click in the calendar for the time you want to schedule the content. For our purposes we ll click in the all day section as we only have the one slideshow that we want to display.

6 Paste the url for you slideshow in here and leave the zone fullscreen unless you want to allow for other content on the screen at the same time. Check the Show Forever box which will then add the option to set the content to reload on a set time period measured in seconds. This ensures that any new slides added will show up on the display seconds (30mins) is what I use.

7 After this you can click back on the url (this may display when you first paste it as well) and choose to Open Advanced Drive Configuration.

8 From here you can set the presentation to start automatically, loop and hide the player controls as well as set the time per slide. Some of these options may already be set based on the embed settings you chose when creating the link but this gives a handy extra place to double check and change things if needed. Click Done and then Save and return to the main schedule screen. Now we re ready to export the schedule so it can be added to the Chromebox.

9 Ensure that the box next to the schedule you want is filled in with a color and then click the Export button on the bottom left hand sidebar. Create a folder somewhere easy to get to and give the file an appropriate name for the branch or content it contains. We ll need to get back to it later

10 Google Admin Console Configuration First, be sure that you have a subcategory/ies created for your respective Organizational Units (OUs) for Signage. If you do not have this, contact the GPLS System Administrator. Go to admin.google.com and sign in. Click on Device Management. Click on Chrome Management.

11 Click on Device Settings. Navigate to your Signage subgroup in the appropriate OU (Make Absolutely sure it s yours!). Scroll down to find Kiosk Apps. Click Manage Kiosk Applications.

12 Click Chrome Web Store. In the Search on Chrome Web Store field, type Chrome Sign Builder. Click Add next to the app. Click Save. Under Kiosk Settings, set Public Session Kiosk to Do not allow Public Session Kiosk and Auto Launch Kiosk App to your signage app. Click Save Changes at the bottom of the screen. Now go back to the Chrome Management screen and choose App Management. Find Chrome Sign Builder in the list of apps or add it if not already there. Then click on it.

13 Choose the Kiosk Settings menu. Navigate to the appropriate OU and your Digital Signage (or whatever you may have named it) sub unit.

14 Make sure it is set to install automatically and then, since there is no configuration file uploaded, choose the override option then the Upload Configuration File button. Navigate to where you saved the exported configuration files and choose one to upload. Then save the configuration. Make sure your signage Chromebox is up to date and start or restart it. You slideshow should start up and you should be set. Repeat the process for creating Slides presentations, using the Sign Builder,exporting and configuring your Admin Console for each different branch/separate sign you want.