91³Ô¹ÏÍø’s preparations for potential emergency situations include regular tests of the communication tools that provide critical information to the 91³Ô¹ÏÍø community.
Several of those 91³Ô¹ÏÍø Alert communication tools will be tested Wednesday, March 7.
In preparation for Wednesday’s Alert testing, students and faculty and staff members are encouraged to log in to my91³Ô¹ÏÍø and review their 91³Ô¹ÏÍø 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 91³Ô¹ÏÍø website, www.ucf.edu, will be tested from 1 to 2 p.m. For most of the testing time, the 91³Ô¹ÏÍø 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 91³Ô¹ÏÍø home page. Although other 91³Ô¹ÏÍø 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 91³Ô¹ÏÍø community whose 91³Ô¹ÏÍø Alert contact information is up to date and who have not opted out of receiving emergency messages should receive both.
-Indoor sirens that emit tones followed by voice instructions will be briefly tested in more than 70 buildings starting at 3 p.m.
The 91³Ô¹ÏÍø Alert testing also will include social media.
For more information on the 91³Ô¹ÏÍø Alert emergency communication system, visit www.emergency.ucf.edu/ucfalert.html.