SMS Alert
SMS Alert provides fast and effective warnings in case of fire, bomb threats, school shootings and other emergency situations. When a crisis arise, everyone needs to be informed of it. And it needs to be done in a simple and transparent way. The SMS Alert module is separate from our other SMS modules, to avoid confusion with other SMS templates.
Benefits
There are many benefits of having SMS Alert. The module:
- Supports direct message to the appropriate authorities
- Immediately notifies everyone via their mobile phones
- Creates a sense of security for everyone at the school and their relatives
- Gives you an easy editor with predefined texts, which are almost ready to be sent out
- Lets you defines who has access to SMS Alert
- Turns your entire screen red, when you open the open the module to issue an alarm
Requirement
This module is already installed with the standard UMS installation. It requires a valid license for the module, which can be checked under “Help/License info”:
The required license is called “SMS Alert”:
After the license has been verified, UMS is ready to be configured.
Settings
All settings regarding this module is via Template settings, just as “ordinary” users that UMS maintains. The concept is that each template (group of users), has a location attached to them. This could be the same location for all users/templates->All users on the school is alerted at the same time. Or it could be different locations (a large school with multiple addresses).
Simply edit an existing template and click “Manage…” under location.
The settings for a location is:
- Description: A telling name for the location (this is the name that the users are shown)
- Access group: Members of the chosen group will have the rights to alert for this location
- Extra numbers: Insert extra numbers that will receive this message first (ex. The local police station)
- Extra mailing lists: Insert extra emails that will receive the message
- SMS Alerts: Choose/design the alert messages
SMS Alerts
Its possible to define multiple alert messages:
Each alert needs a telling display name, and a short and easy to understand text.