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2 minOld-school notice board without the cork
Keep learners
informed.Without the distractions.
Reaching them shouldn't mean putting a phone in their hand. Notices go on the wall they already walk past — no app, no group chat, nothing to scroll.
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Grade 10 group — 47 new messages.
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07:12One of these is from the school. Unlocking the phone to read it unlocks the other three.
Why now
You can't reach a phone that's in a locker.
More schools are putting phones away for the school day — and every channel a school has invested in goes away with them. An app, a WhatsApp group, a push notification: between the first bell and the last, none of them arrive. A screen in a corridor asks nothing of anybody.
Nothing to install, nothing to join
No app, no group, no login, no data. A notice on the wall is read by whoever walks past it, which is everybody, on their way to somewhere else.
Up before the next bell
A room changes at nine and the notice is on the wall a minute later. Nothing waits for Friday's newsletter, or for somebody to check their email.
No phone to unlock
Phone bans are really about social media. Reading a message on a phone means unlocking it — and everything else on it. A screen needs none of that.
Setting up
Three steps, in the order you'd actually do them.
Pair a screen
Open the player on any panel already on the wall. It shows a code. Type that code in once, and the panel is paired — revoke it from your desk whenever you like.
Hang a board on it
A board is what notices go on. Say what it carries — any grade, or just the matrics, or only the fixtures — and every screen you hang it on shows the same thing.
Post a notice
Say who it's for, not where it should appear. It lands on every board that carries that audience, in the foyer and the sports wing at once, without anyone choosing screens.
Why it's different
Notices are addressed to people, not pushed to screens.
Every other system asks which screens should show your message. Ask that and you have to answer it again for every screen you ever add. Corkless asks who it's for, and the routing follows on its own.
Mr Pillay posts
"Trig revision due Monday."
grade:grade-12subject:maths
It appears on
The Matric board, in the sixth-form common room and outside the maths block.
Next term, a new screen goes up
Hang the Matric board on it. Every past and future notice is already there. Nothing is re-sent, re-tagged or re-scheduled.
Nothing outstays its welcome
Every notice has an end, decided by what kind of notice it is.
Not a reminder to take it down. A rule, set once, that the notice carries with it. This is what a sheet of paper could never do.
Fixtureuntil the match ends
Examuntil the paper ends
Homeworkuntil it's due
Tuck shop menuuntil 14:00
Announcementuntil 16:00
Short message10 minutes
Closure24 hours, once approved
Your words, not ours
It already speaks the way your school does.
Sports, subjects, the kinds of notice a school actually sends — in the language it sends them in.
English
Sport
NetballRunning
HockeySwimming
Tennis
Kinds of notice
AnnouncementFixture
ResultTime change
ExamHomework
PracticeTrip
Tuck shopClosure
Afrikaans
Sport
NetbalAtletiek
HokkieSwem
Tennis
Soorte kennisgewings
AankondigingWedstryd
UitslagTydverandering
EksamenHuiswerk
OefeningUitstappie
SnoepieSluiting
More of what it does
Features designed around a school, not an office.
More than one campus
A notice for one campus stays on that campus — it doesn't turn up in the other one's corridor. Anything meant for the whole school still reaches every screen, without you posting it twice.
Approval where it matters
A closure waits for a second pair of eyes before it goes anywhere. Everyday notices don't. You decide which kinds need signing off, once.
You see where it lands before you post
Say who a notice is for and the screens that will show it are listed back to you, by name, while you're still typing.
Take it down at once
Cricket back on after all? Pull the notice and it's off every screen in seconds — no walking round the building, no waiting for it to expire.
You'll know when a screen goes quiet
Every panel says when it last checked in. A dead screen shows up on a list rather than as a blank wall somebody mentions three weeks later.
One board, as many walls as you like
Hang the same board on a second screen and it's already showing everything. Nothing to copy across, and nothing to keep in step afterwards.
The practical part
It runs on the screen already hanging in your corridor.
Any panel with a browser
Samsung Tizen, LG webOS, Android TV, or a Raspberry Pi behind an old monitor. No app store, no set-top box, nothing to buy.
Sign in with Microsoft
Your staff already have accounts. No new passwords, no separate user list to keep up to date when someone leaves.
Hosted in South Africa
Your data stays in the country, on infrastructure in Johannesburg.
Put one screen up and see.
Start with the foyer. Pair it in a minute, hang a board on it, and post something.