1. Digital Signage helps to enhance environment of
success and achievement at Alfriston College
Alfriston College was opened in 2004 in Manukau, New
Zealand, with a vision to meet the needs of a diverse student
populous who expected a 21st century learning environment.
Purpose-built, the school was designed to be an inspiring
environment both today and for the youth of tomorrow.
With over 1,500 students segmented across five family groups,
or whanau as they are known locally, Alfriston College is a
large establishment and as such it had become difficult for
central messaging and news to be distributed to all of its
students in an engaging and interesting manner.
Traditionally teaching staff were asked to share news and
information during form periods in the classroom, however,
this did not allow for mass congratulations and celebration of
particularly pertinent achievements or successes.
Success breeds success
Deputy Principal of Alfriston College, Doug Black, comments;
“To create an environment of success you have to create
the desire for achievement within your students. Promoting
students’ accomplishments in a public manner will heighten
their sense of pride and drive others to try to emulate that
achievement.
“We felt we needed a more public, open and eye catching
medium by which to celebrate our attainments as an entire
school family; digital signage seemed an obvious way to go.”
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“Tripleplay just worked. Within
two hours of setting up the
system I was fully confident in
my own ability to operate it”
Doug Black, Deputy Principal,
Alfriston College
Having engaged with Digital Signage Solutions Ltd, Alfriston
College decided to implement the server based Tripleplay
digital signage solution, TripleSign. Initially screens would be
placed in communal areas, with displays specifically assigned
for each whanau in the school, ensuring that messaging was
both relevant and specific to the audience who would see it
most.
Tripleplay’s TripleSign was chosen for a variety of factors,
with the ability to scale the solution a key factor, whilst having
a flexible and comprehensive management system was of
paramount importance.
Doug Black continued; “Schools invest in all manner of
technologies, some of them prove valuable and some struggle
to be integrated into the culture. We knew that to get digital
signage working it had to be simple to manage, update and
maintain. We also needed to have our investment future
proofed; Tripleplay offered this.
“We can give access to administration and teaching staff,
providing varying degrees of editorial and creative rights to
those users, aggregating not only control but responsibility.
We can allow a receptionist to access and update a single text
box, or a head of year to create layouts and upload videos; we
control every aspect of the solution.”

2. Simple management, easy to update solution
makes life easier
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ABOUT ALFRISTON COLLEGE
Alfriston College opened in January 2004 with
a vision to meed the diverse needs of 21st
Century learners. The school has been purpose-
designed to meet the needs of today’s and
tomorrow’s learners.
A key feature of the Whanau building is their
flexibility. Classrooms and learning spaces have
‘operable’ walls (walls that move) allowing
the size of learning spaces to change to
accommodatethe learning tasks and activities
being undertaken. All rooms have immediate
access to ICT and computers.
ABOUT TRIPLEPLAY
Tripleplay is one of the world’s leading manufacturers and developers of Digital Media solutions. With a worldwide network of
partners and customers on every continent, Tripleplay has built up a global reputation for quality and market leadership.
Providing solutions into all Public and Private sectors, Tripleplay has built up a wealth of experience and knowledge to help any
organisation find a solution to their Digital Media problems.
Tripleplay’s three core software solutions are TripleTV, a HD IPTV solution, TripleVOD, a video on demand streaming solution and
TripleSign, a world class digital signage software. All fully integrated and interoperable with each other.
With a wide range of management tools and software enhancements, our solutions can be tailored to meet any unique
requirement.
KEY CHALLENGES
Alfriston College needed a more
efficient and impacting way in which
to communicate with its student body,
enabling them to better celebrate success
and highlight the achievements of its
students.
THE SOLUTION
Working with Digital Signage Solutions Ltd
and Tripleplay, the server based TripleSign
Digital Signage solution was chosen to
provide screens in communal areas and
in each of the school’s five whanau areas.
The solution has central management but
with the ability to aggregate control to
appropriate and trained members of staff.
THE BENEFITS
Alfriston College is now able to provide
relevant and timely information to each
of the five whanau areas, promoting
their individual and group successes
and achievements. The system is simple
and quick to update which has ensured
adoption has been fast
AT A GLANCE
TRIPLEPLAY PRODUCTS
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Content Management
Simplicity key to decision
Simplicity itself was also a factor in the
school choosing the Tripleplay solution.
Doug Black confirmed; “Tripleplay just
worked. Within two hours of setting up
the system I was fully confident in my own
ability to operate it, and knew that it would
be easy to keep up-to-date.
“Doing the basics was simple, so we
could get up and running very quickly. We
also know it will be simple to expand the
solution both in terms of screen numbers
and additional features as and when we
need them.”
Alfriston College aims to extend the solution
further into the school Gym, staff rooms
and other prominent locations and found
that Tripleplay’s server based system and
licensing model offered this functionality
very simply.
Since its implementation, the digital signage
solution has been utilised to promote
events and achievements across the school.
This included promoting the success of
its students at the Rock Quest music
competition, in which Alfriston College
students were voted the top three acts
competing.
Tripleplay’s solution also provided a great
way to share photographs of the school
prom with the entire faculty, ensuring the
technology is inclusive of all students and
has become engrained in the everyday
culture of life on campus.
Alfriston College have been delighted
with the solution and with the work of
Digital Signage Solutions Ltd who have
implemented the screens in-keeping
with the school’s unique aesthetic,
communicating with the school throughout
the process to ensure the solution would be
what they hoped it would.
Doug Black commented; “We have a
great relationship with Digital Signage
Solutions and the implementation was
fantastic, matching the look and feel of
our very unique and stimulating learning
environment.”
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