麻豆原创’s preparations for potential emergency situations include regular tests of the communication tools that provide critical information to students, staff and faculty members, and the public.
Several of those 麻豆原创 Alert communication tools will be tested Thursday, July 20.
In preparation for Thursday鈥檚 Alert testing, students and faculty and staff members are encouraged to log in to my麻豆原创 and review their 麻豆原创 Alert settings to ensure that contact information (email, cell phone number, and mobile provider) is correct.
The emergency communication functions that will be tested Thursday include:
-Indoor sirens that emit tones followed by voice instructions will be briefly tested in more than 70 buildings starting at 12:15 p.m.
-The 麻豆原创 website, www.ucf.edu, will be tested from 1 to 2 p.m. For most of the testing time, the 麻豆原创 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 麻豆原创 home page. Although other 麻豆原创 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 麻豆原创 community whose 麻豆原创 Alert contact information is up to date and who have not opted out of receiving emergency messages should receive both.
-Outdoor sirens, which emit a tone followed by voice instructions, will be tested at 3 p.m.
The 麻豆原创 Alert testing also will include W麻豆原创-89.9 FM and social media.
For more information on the 麻豆原创 Alert emergency communication system, visit www.emergency.ucf.edu/ucfalert.html.