Re: emergency alert system

[Mike Iglesias <iglesias () UCI EDU>]

Kevin Shalla wrote:
> The Student Affairs people here at UIC are interested in creating a
> system for emergency alerts (notifying students of some campus
> emergency), and requiring students to update that information before
> they can register.  We already have an SMS emergency message system
> available, but have no requirement for its use, and of course it won't
> reach people who don't have text messaging available.  Have others heard
> desire for this?  What have you done about it?

We have "zotAlert"...

http://www.nacs.uci.edu/announce/zotalert.html

We've had some issues with the providers getting the text messages out to all
the people signed up for the alerts.


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