UCF's preparations for potential emergency situations include regular tests of the communication tools that provide critical information to the UCF community.
Several of those UCF Alert communication tools will be tested Wednesday, March 8.
In preparation for Wednesday's testing, students and faculty and staff members are encouraged to log in to https://getrave.com/login/ucf and review their UCF Alert settings to ensure that contact information (email, cell phone number and mobile provider) is correct.
The emergency communication functions that will be tested Wednesday include:
- Outdoor sirens, which emit a tone followed by voice instructions, will be tested at noon.
-The UCF website, https://ucf.edu, will be tested from noon to 1 p.m. For most of the testing time, the UCF home page will remain active and fully functional with an alert bar at the top of the page. All messages on the alert bar will be marked as tests. A portion of the web site test will involve replacing the regular home page with an entirely text-only home page that may be used during some emergencies. When that text-only page is active, users will not be able to access links typically found on the UCF home page. Although other UCF web pages will not be impacted by the test, users may want to bookmark those pages in advance.
-A test emergency text and email will be sent around 1 p.m. All members of the UCF community whose UCF Alert contact information is up to date and who have not opted out of receiving emergency messages should receive both the text and email message. A banner will also appear in the UCF Mobile app if you have subscribed to the UCF Alert notification channel.
-Indoor sirens that emit tones followed by voice instructions will be briefly tested in more than 70 buildings starting at 3 p.m.
The UCF Alert testing also will include social media. For consistent updates and information in an emergency, follow UCF and the UCF Police Department on Twitter and Facebook. These are helpful resources for the UCF community every day and become official resources for information during emergencies.
For more information on the UCF Alert system, visit https://police.ucf.edu/ucfalert.
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