The Emergency Operations Center conducted its latest test of its emergency notifications system Wednesday with an increased success rate of 98.3 percent.
The notification went out in three ways — text message, e-mail and desktop alert.
The desktop notifications were a new feature that sent notifications to screens in multimedia classrooms as well as computers in public access labs in the Student Union, Patrick F. Taylor Hall and Middleton Library.
The new features will allow students, faculty and staff to be notified in new ways, but they won’t be used until the EOC can iron out kinks from Wednesday’s test, like the look of the desktop notification.
“These changes will not be immediately implemented into future emergency notifications until we are sure that it can be an effective method of notification,” said John Borne, chief IT Security & Policy officer. “The last thing we want is to send out a notification and have people not receive notification.”
ITS is also working on an application that people could download to their personal computers that would perform similarly to the desktop notifications.
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Emergency notification 98.3 percent successful
September 28, 2011