Organizing screens with screen groups

Once you have more than about five screens, managing them individually gets painful. Screen Groups let you bundle screens together so a single schedule hits all of them.

When to create a group

Create a group whenever you'd otherwise repeat the same schedule across multiple screens. Common groupings:

• By location: "Main Hallway", "Cafeteria", "Gym Lobby"
• By audience: "K–2 Classrooms", "Staff-Only Areas"
• By purpose: "Emergency-Capable Displays" (excludes classroom TVs from alerts)

A screen can only belong to one group at a time.

Creating a group

1. Go to Screens → Screen Groups → New group.
2. Name it and add a description.
3. Drag screens into the group, or click individual screens and assign them.

Using groups in schedules

When creating a schedule, the target picker offers three options:

• Tenant — the entire school (for school-wide playlists)
• Group — a single screen group
• Screen — one specific screen

The emergency system uses the same scoping. Triggering an alert at scopeType: 'group' pushes the alert only to screens in that group. This is how you exclude, say, early-childhood classrooms from a lockdown alert that might scare young kids, while still alerting all the hallway screens.

Permissions

Screen groups inherit tenant-level permissions. A CONTRIBUTOR can assign screens to groups but cannot create or delete groups — only SCHOOL_ADMIN and above can.