Editor’s Update: High Marks for Classroom Alert

In the last issue of LTS Connection we featured an article about the new campus alert system for classrooms titled “Classroom Alert System Operational.” With advance notice to the campus, this system received its first campus-wide test November 12th and 13th.

The test went extremely well and about fifty people responded to the invitation to share their feedback, mostly professors who were teaching classes at this time. One professor who was teaching classes both days noted that the students were receptive to the idea and that it presented an opportunity for him to remind the class to make sure their cell phones are registered with the university’s emergency notification system, LU-ALERT.

Another professor described himself as “very impressed” with how very easy it was to hear the alert tone and the message. We all hope that we never have occasion to need this safety mechanism but it’s great to be prepared with an excellent workable system. For more information consult www.lehigh.edu/phones.

--Susan A. Cady
  LTS Director for Administrative and Planning Services

Article posted November 20, 2008

 

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