Â鶹ӳ»´«Ã½â€™s preparations for potential emergency situations include regular tests of the communication tools that provide critical information to the Â鶹ӳ»´«Ã½ community.
Several of those Â鶹ӳ»´«Ã½ 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 myÂ鶹ӳ»´«Ã½ and review their Â鶹ӳ»´«Ã½ 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 Â鶹ӳ»´«Ã½ website, www.ucf.edu, will be tested from 1 to 2 p.m. For most of the testing time, the Â鶹ӳ»´«Ã½ 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 Â鶹ӳ»´«Ã½ home page. Although other Â鶹ӳ»´«Ã½ 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 Â鶹ӳ»´«Ã½ community whose Â鶹ӳ»´«Ã½ 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 Â鶹ӳ»´«Ã½ Alert testing also will include social media.
For more information on the Â鶹ӳ»´«Ã½ Alert emergency communication system, visit www.emergency.ucf.edu/ucfalert.html.