In the event of a real emergency, the VT Alert system sends out notifications via the Virginia Tech homepage, through emails blasts to all vt.edu accounts, on the electronic message boards in classrooms, on the weather/emergency hotline, over the campus sirens and loudspeakers, on the the university switchboard and with optional phone and desktop alerts. The VT Phone Alerts is subscription-based but allows you to list up to three, ranked additional contact methods. VT Desktop Alerts notifies you via popup on your desktop or laptop computer. [Virginia Tech]
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Friday, August 5, 2011 at 3:34 PMStudents of Queensland University of Technology (QUT) will be pleased to know the University has implmented a similar SMS based alert system with the capability of notifying all staff/students in very short response times.
If you are a student at QUT I do recommend you update your emergency alert phone number in your QUT Virtual account to ensure you’re included in these notifications should they need to be sent.