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How to Display monday.com on Office Screens with Digital Signage

Written by RocketScreens | Jun 16, 2026 3:00:01 PM

monday.com is one of the most widely used work management platforms for tracking tasks, projects, and team workload. But there is a gap between the data living inside the platform and the awareness teams actually carry throughout their workday. monday.com digital signage closes that gap by pulling live project data out of the app and onto screens where everyone can see it, without logging in.

 

This guide covers why visibility matters for project execution, what to display, how to set it up, and how platforms like RocketScreens make it easy to turn monday.com into an always-on project control layer for your workspace.

 

Why Keeping Project Data Inside a Tool Creates Blind Spots

monday.com gives teams a structured place to manage work. Boards, dashboards, timelines, and automations all help project managers stay on top of what is happening. The problem is that most team members only check the platform when they remember to, or when someone sends them a direct message asking for an update.

 

This creates a pattern where important status changes go unnoticed for hours. A task marked as blocked may sit that way for most of the day because the person who can unblock it never opened monday.com. A deadline shift that happened in the afternoon may not reach a dependent team until the following morning.

The tool has the information. The team does not.

 

Office screens change this dynamic. When monday.com data is displayed on screens in common areas, break rooms, and near team workstations, updates reach people passively. No one needs to remember to check the platform. The current state of work is simply visible.

 

What monday.com Digital Signage Actually Shows

The most effective monday.com displays are not raw board views. They are curated to surface what matters most at a glance. Here is what teams typically display:

  • Overall project progress - a percentage or visual bar showing how far along the current sprint or project phase is
  • Task completion rate - how many tasks are done versus in progress versus not started
  • Upcoming deadlines - tasks or milestones due within the next 24 to 72 hours
  • Blocked items - tasks with a status that signals they need attention
  • Workload distribution - who is carrying how much, which helps managers spot imbalances
  • Team-level KPIs - custom columns or formulas that track cycle time, throughput, or delivery rate

The right mix depends on your team's workflow. Engineering teams often prioritize blockers and sprint burndown. Marketing teams want campaign status and deadline visibility. Operations teams care about workload balance and completion rates across multiple projects.

 

How monday.com Integrates with Digital Signage

monday.com supports several ways to get its data onto external screens. The most common approaches are:

 

Embedding the monday.com Dashboard URL

monday.com allows users to share dashboards as links. Digital signage platforms that support web embeds or URL-based content can load these links directly onto a screen. The display refreshes on a set interval, pulling updated data each time.

 

This approach works well when your monday.com dashboards are already structured for visibility. If the board is cluttered or designed for editing rather than reading, it may not translate cleanly to a large screen.

 

Using a Digital Signage Platform with Native monday.com Support

Platforms like RocketScreens support monday.com as a data source, allowing teams to connect their workspace and display specific boards, dashboard widgets, or project views as signage content. This method offers more control over what appears on screen and how it is styled for readability at a distance.

 

RocketScreens handles the connection securely through a cloud-based architecture, so your monday.com data is never exposed in an insecure way. The content updates automatically, and screens across multiple locations can be managed from a single control panel.

 

Using the monday.com API for Custom Displays

For teams with technical resources, monday.com has a GraphQL API that lets you pull specific data fields and display them in a custom format. This is the most flexible option but requires development effort to set up and maintain. Most organizations find that a purpose-built digital signage platform with monday.com integration covers their needs without the overhead of custom development.

 

Setting Up monday.com Digital Signage: Step by Step

Step 1: Identify What You Want to Display

Start by listing the metrics and project data that matter most for your team. Talk to the people who need visibility, not just the people who manage the boards. Front-line team members often need different information than project managers do.

 

Keep the display focused. Screens that show too much become background noise. Three to five clear metrics or status indicators work better than a full board view.

 

Step 2: Clean Up Your monday.com Dashboard

If you are embedding a dashboard directly, make sure it is structured for readability. Use large widgets. Remove columns that are not relevant to the audience who will see the screen. Use status labels that are self-explanatory to someone who glances at a TV from across a room.

 

Step 3: Connect monday.com to Your Signage Platform

In RocketScreens, you can add monday.com as an integration source and select which boards or dashboard views to display. The platform manages authentication securely, so you authorize the connection once and RocketScreens handles the refresh automatically.

 

Step 4: Configure Your Screen Layout

Decide whether monday.com content will be the sole focus of a screen or part of a rotation with other content like announcements, KPIs, or communications. Many teams run monday.com project status alongside other metrics, splitting the screen or rotating through content zones.

 

Step 5: Deploy and Monitor

Push the content to your screens. RocketScreens allows you to manage all screens from a central dashboard, so you can update what is displayed, change the layout, or redirect screens to different content without physically accessing each device.

 

Set a review cadence to check that the display is still relevant. As projects evolve, the metrics worth showing on screen will shift too.

 

Use Cases by Team Type

Software Development Teams

Engineering teams using monday.com for sprint management can display sprint progress, open blockers, and bug counts on screens near the team's workspace. This reduces the need for daily standups to cover ground that the screen already communicates.

 

Marketing Operations

Marketing teams running campaigns through monday.com can show campaign status, content pipeline progress, and deadline proximity on office screens. This keeps everyone aware of what is launching soon and what needs attention.

 

Construction and Field Operations

Project teams with site offices can display milestone status, crew assignments, and safety compliance checks on screens in site trailers or break areas. Workers who rarely sit at a desk still get project visibility.

 

Agency and Creative Teams

Agencies managing multiple client projects in monday.com can dedicate screens to different client accounts or show an aggregated view of all active projects, highlighting anything flagged as at-risk or overdue.

 

Common Challenges and How to Handle Them

The Dashboard Looks Cluttered on Screen

monday.com dashboards designed for desktop use often have too many columns, too much text, and elements that are too small to read from a distance. The fix is to create a dedicated signage view in monday.com that strips back to only the most important fields and uses large, high-contrast widgets.

 

Content Goes Stale and People Stop Looking

If project boards are not kept current in monday.com, the screen quickly loses credibility. Teams that see inaccurate status information on a TV will learn to ignore it. This is a process problem, not a technology problem. Establish a norm that status updates happen in monday.com as they occur, not during weekly reviews.

 

Not All Teams Use monday.com the Same Way

Large organizations often have inconsistent board structures across departments. What works as a signage display for one team may not work for another. Use RocketScreens' multi-screen management to create different display configurations for different teams rather than trying to create a single view that fits everyone.

 

Security Concerns Around Screen Visibility

Some organizations worry about sensitive project data being visible on office screens. This is a valid concern, especially in open-plan offices with visitors. The solution is to create public-facing views in monday.com that show only the data appropriate for broad visibility, and to manage access through RocketScreens' secure content controls.

 

Best Practices for Sustained Impact

  • Refresh intervals matter. Set your display to update every 5 to 15 minutes for project data. Shorter intervals for anything that changes rapidly, like a live event or same-day deadline tracking.
  • Use color coding in monday.com. Status labels with color carry well on large screens. Red for blocked, green for on track, yellow for at risk reads immediately