An agenda screen for a meetup, workshop or reunion puts the day's schedule on the TV with what's on now and what's next, beside the wifi and a code for the slides, so nobody has to ask where they should be. Type the plan once from your phone, and a change reaches the screen within a minute.
It suits any day with a running order: a maker meetup, a training day, a family reunion with lunch at one and the photo at four. The TV opens a web page, and that is the whole setup.
The schedule, with what's on now
Type the moments in the order of the day, each with its time and, if it helps, a short note like the room it's in. The schedule lights the one on now, marks the one coming next, and dims what has passed, and the notes show under now and next where they matter. A long day turns its pages by itself and keeps what's on now in view. The last moment stays lit for an hour before the day reads as done, and a time earlier than the one before it is the next morning, so an evening that runs past midnight stays in order.
The wifi
Put the network on the board and it shows a code a phone's camera reads to join, so the first ten minutes aren't spent spelling out a password. The wifi guide covers the code, open networks and taking it off the screen afterward.
A code for the slides
Point a QR code tile at the slides, a shared folder or the sign-up sheet, and people open it on their own phones rather than squinting at the projector. The site it opens is printed under the code. On Pro and the Event Pass, a Slides tile can show the deck on the board itself: a Google Slides deck published to the web turns its own slides there.
When a room changes
"The workshop has moved to the back room." Put up an alert from your phone, a line of up to 140 characters, and it runs across the bottom of the board, or over the whole of it, for 15 minutes, an hour or until you take it down. It reaches the screen without touching the schedule, and comes down by itself when its time is up. Change the schedule too, and the moment's note says the new room from then on.
A screen on its side in the hallway
A screen hung in portrait by the door is read on the way past. Pick Portrait when you make the board and the schedule fills the top half of the tall screen, with the wifi under it and the code and the clock side by side at the bottom, rather than a wide layout squeezed sideways.
Questions from the room
A messages tile has a code people scan to send a question or a thought from their phone, and nothing reaches the screen until you approve it, so you see every question first and the room sees the ones you let through. To ask the room something back, which talk comes next or how the day went, a poll tile counts their votes and moves the bars as they come in; it is part of Pro and the Event Pass.
After the event
Give the board's event its start and end. The wifi starts with "Hide after the event" switched on, so when the event is over it comes off the screen by itself. A day later the board archives itself, which frees its place for your next event, and nothing is deleted: restoring it puts it back exactly as it was, ready for next year's reunion.
A board worth copying
Pick "Event agenda" when you make the board. The schedule takes the whole left half, big enough to read from the back of the room, and on the right the wifi sits over the code for the slides and the clock. That is four tiles. On a screen turned on its side the schedule leads, the wifi comes next, and the code and the clock share the bottom.
For an evening rather than a day, the party guide has the countdown and the guests' photos, and a wedding has a guide of its own. The layouts guide has every starting point.