Vivi's key points of difference to Apple TV

• Purpose built - Vivi is purpose-built for education, offering teacher and student-specific engagement tools and enterprise management for school and district IT admins.  

• Digital signage - Vivi includes a robust Digital Signage solution at no additional cost, offering broadcast of images, videos, live feeds, websites and Google Presentations to classrooms and common areas. Signage can easily be grouped into playlists and scheduled to display on one or multiple displays. Apple TV doesn’t offer Digital Signage without using 3rd party software.  

• Centralised management - Vivi Central is a robust all-in-one cloud-based management system, designed for IT Admins in education, giving them the ability to set up rooms and locations, monitor devices and make updates remotely from Vivi Central, cloud-based admin portal. 3rd party MDM software is required for remote management of Apple TV’s. 

• Teacher controlled - Vivi has been designed so that the teacher always retains control over the shared display. Each user must log in to the app to access its features and is assigned appropriate access rights based on their identity as teacher or student. The teacher can give control to share a screen to the student or unlock the room to allow students to connect without requiring permission. Apple TV does not offer student engagement features. Additional software such as the Apple Classroom app can be used with MacOS and iOS, for example where a teacher can mirror the student’s device to the display.  

• Direct video - Vivi’s Direct Video Play allows teachers to stream HD videos directly to the screen and projector while using their laptops for other purposes. With video playing an ever-increasing role in 21st century education, this is incredibly useful. Apple TV can only natively support Airplay, which accommodates MacOS and iOS devices. Additional 3rd party software is required for mirroring from Windows and Chromebook devices. 

• Collaboration - In the modern classroom, it’s common for students to collaborate in small groups, in some cases supported by multiple screens or projectors in the single learning space. Vivi enables student groups to present different content onto individual Vivi-enabled screens, and even have up to 4 presenters on a screen at once. Apple TV does not offer this functionality. 

• Personalised professional development - Vivi provides professional development and training to teachers and staff, onboarding and unlimited support, all included with the solution at no additional cost.