{"id":70471,"date":"2021-02-09T10:43:09","date_gmt":"2021-02-09T15:43:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/?p=70471"},"modified":"2021-02-09T16:16:40","modified_gmt":"2021-02-09T21:16:40","slug":"brock-university-to-test-mass-notification-system-over-reading-week","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/2021\/02\/brock-university-to-test-mass-notification-system-over-reading-week\/","title":{"rendered":"Brock University to test mass notification system over Reading Week"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"BodyA\"><span lang=\"EN-US\">Brock\u2019s Campus Security Services (CSS) will be conducting a live test of the App Armor Alert Mass Notification System on Thursday, Feb. 18 at noon. <\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"BodyA\"><span lang=\"EN-US\">The test will consist of two alerts, the first indicating the start of the alert notification and the second indicating the test has been completed. This test is required to confirm all portions of the mass notification system are working as expected and to identify any deficiencies. <\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"BodyA\"><span lang=\"EN-US\">Messaging will be sent to many of the mass notification alerting mechanisms, such as <a href=\"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/apps\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Brock Mobile Safety App<\/a> subscribers via a push notification; Brock desktop and office phones; all Brock email addresses; any subscribers to SMS text messages or subscribed phone numbers; CSS&#8217; Facebook and Twitter feeds; and an alert message will display on all Brock-managed PC and MAC computers.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"BodyA\"><span lang=\"EN-US\">The upcoming tests will involve the entire Brock community, including those working remotely using Brock owned or managed devices. <\/span><span lang=\"EN-US\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"BodyA\"><span lang=\"EN-US\">For those on campus, an audible message will be broadcasted<\/span> <span lang=\"EN-US\">over the PA systems and a scrolling message will be visible on all of the digital message signs.<\/span><span lang=\"EN-US\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"BodyA\"><span lang=\"EN-US\">Connected desktop PC users and those remotely accessing their Brock office PC can expect an alert screen with a test alert message. Users will be able to press the acknowledge option to end the alert, which will clear the screen and allow them to resume their work. Alternatively, the alert screen will automatically disappear once the test alerts have been deactivated by CSS.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"BodyA\"><span lang=\"EN-US\">All other notification methods will not require any action by the subscriber.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"BodyA\"><span lang=\"EN-US\">Questions on the testing process can be directed to Campus Security Inspector Karl Thorp at <a href=\"mailto:kthorp@brocku.ca\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">kthorp@brocku.ca<\/a> <\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Brock\u2019s Campus Security Services (CSS) will be conducting a live test of the App Armor Alert Mass Notification System on Thursday, Feb. 18 at noon.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":70472,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[36,54,39,40,7,55,37,41,38],"tags":[9251,9964,4912,180],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70471"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=70471"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70471\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":70473,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70471\/revisions\/70473"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/70472"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=70471"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=70471"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=70471"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}