{"id":135416,"date":"2018-03-16T11:40:14","date_gmt":"2018-03-16T15:40:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/?p=135416"},"modified":"2023-06-27T13:05:34","modified_gmt":"2023-06-27T17:05:34","slug":"test-emergency-communications-set-march-20","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/2018\/03\/test-emergency-communications-set-march-20\/","title":{"rendered":"Test of Emergency Communications Set for March 20"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The University of Connecticut will test its emergency notification and alerting system, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.alert.uconn.edu\/\">UConnALERT<\/a>, at all campuses on Tuesday, March 20 at 12:25 p.m.<\/p>\n<p>The test involves multiple messaging platforms. A notice will be posted on the\u00a0UConn Alert website (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.alert.uconn.edu\">alert.uconn.edu<\/a>); an email will be sent to all faculty, staff, and students; and postings will appear on the University\u2019s\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.facebook.com\/uconn\">Facebook<\/a>\u00a0and\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/dailydigest.uconn.edu\/index.php\/public\/addStory\/twitter.com\/uconn\">Twitter<\/a>\u00a0accounts.<\/p>\n<p>Cell phone numbers registered with the UConnAlert system will also receive a text message. For the Storrs campus only, the outdoor sirens will be tested simultaneously with an audible tone.<\/p>\n<p>Smartphone users who have downloaded the University\u2019s official mobile application, <strong>myUConn<em>,<\/em><\/strong> will also receive an alert through the app during the test. To download the free <strong>myUConn<\/strong> mobile app, visit\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/mobile.uconn.edu\/\">mobile.uconn.edu<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>In an actual emergency, information will be available and updated through the\u00a0UConn Alert website (<u><a href=\"alert.uconn.edu\">alert.uconn.edu<\/a><\/u>).Students, faculty, and staff are encouraged to visit this site to register for cell phone text alerts, update their information, and view other items related to emergency procedures and general campus safety.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The University will test its emergency notification system, UConnALERT, at all campuses this Tuesday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":65,"featured_media":79526,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_crdt_document":"","wds_primary_category":0,"wds_primary_series":0,"wds_primary_attribution":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[173,92,174,2225,90,2234],"tags":[],"magazine-issues":[],"coauthors":[1932],"class_list":["post-135416","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uconn-avery-point","category-uconn-hartford","category-uconn-stamford","category-uconn-storrs","category-uconn-waterbury","category-university-life"],"pp_statuses_selecting_workflow":false,"pp_workflow_action":"current","pp_status_selection":"publish","acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-05-10 06:20:50","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/posts\/135416","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/users\/65"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=135416"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/posts\/135416\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":135422,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/posts\/135416\/revisions\/135422"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/media\/79526"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=135416"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=135416"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=135416"},{"taxonomy":"magazine-issue","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/magazine-issues?post=135416"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=135416"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}