Recent years have seen a growing interest in supporting learning activities/scenarios that go beyond the traditional classroom context as well as the development of pervasive computing scenarios supported by display installations. In order to explore such interactive scenarios that span video-based learning activities across school contexts, we have developed two web-based functional prototypes of public display applications and performed a field evaluation during an initial test-deployment. The system consists of a public display endpoint providing video content enriched with quizzes related to this content, and a mobile endpoint providing interactivity and user participation. During a three weeks test-deployment at two Swedish schools, the display system was evaluated and important requirements for the next iterations were gathered. This work presents the results of the test-deployment and the users' adoption (usage patterns), and discusses the specialties of introducing such a system into educational environments. The deployment and the corresponding study enabled us to validate in real settings the overall technical approach and to test different perspectives of display usage. The conclusions point to the need to further understand how to promote an integrated view of display utilization in schools.