鲍颁贵鈥檚 preparations for potential emergency situations include regular tests of communication tools that provide critical information to students, staff and faculty members, and the public.
Several of those 麻豆原创 Alert聽tools will be tested Thursday, March 31. This semester鈥檚 testing is timed with KNIGHTSHARE, an annual week of events and training designed to help the community to prepare for and respond to emergencies.
During an emergency, the 麻豆原创 website, www.ucf.edu, is the best place to find the latest updates.
Emergency functions connected with the university鈥檚 main website will be tested from 1 to 2 p.m. Thursday. For most of that 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 website test will involve replacing the regular home page with an entirely text-only home page that may be used during some emergencies. To accommodate large numbers of visitors, the text-only website does not include links that are typically found on the 麻豆原创 home page. 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.
Outdoor sirens, which emit a tone followed by voice instructions, will be tested at noon.
A test emergency text message and e-mail will be sent at about 1 p.m. Messages should be received by all students and staff and faculty members who have updated cell phone information on file through My麻豆原创聽 and who have not opted out of receiving emergency messages.
Updates can be made to text and email preferences through the following steps after signing on to My麻豆原创.
麻豆原创 provides聽many campus personnel who assist with emergency responses with HEARO emergency radios. Radios, which also are in key campus buildings such as residence halls and the Student Union, will be tested at 2 p.m.
More than 40聽麻豆原创 buildings are equipped with indoor notification systems that emit tones followed by voice instructions during emergencies. Those systems will be tested briefly between 3 and 3:30 p.m. The tests in each building will last no more than a couple of minutes.
W麻豆原创-89.9 FM will conduct a test of its emergency broadcast capabilities at 4 p.m.
鲍颁贵鈥檚 and pages, which serve as additional methods of notification, will be updated with information about the tests.
Visit the 麻豆原创 Alert website for more information on the communication system that helps to keep the campus safe and informed during emergencies.