Education sector

Schools are fast realising the benefits of using mass notification solutions such as NetSupport Notify to boost school communication and support their emergency and lockdown procedures.

Using NetSupport Notify, schools can communicate effectively with staff and students using one-way alerts and notifications – sending them to desktop users and large information panels in halls and foyers. Notifications automatically take screen focus, meaning they can’t be hidden, ignored or saved for later (even on locked screens). The notifications can even be targeted to select groups and scheduled for maximum impact.

Key features:

• Send notifications to 10,000 users, across multiple sites
• Flexible delivery options and scheduling
• Full reporting and tracking
• Multi-platform support
• Customise notifications with your branding
• Select the type of notification and how it will display

Key benefits of mass notification:

Emergency and lockdown communication

NetSupport Notify can be a vital communication tool during a school’s emergency and lockdown procedure and some integrate it as an official part of their emergency plans, due to its ability to send a clear and concise message or instruction (maximum 1000 characters) to all connected computers – across multiple platforms, specific users, devices or selected departments. The delivered notification automatically takes screen focus on recipient computers and can be accompanied by an audible alert to ensure attention is gained.

If there isn’t time to type a lengthy message, the sender can create and use a ready-made “emergency response” alert, and send it from the office or on the move with our dedicated mobile apps.

Evidence of acknowledgment

Prioritise each notification with clear and concise notification types (e.g. News, Alert, Technical, Security, Alert, Health and Critical). Plus, create your own set of notification type icons (using your own text, fonts and colour) to suit the types of messages you wish to send out.

When the notification is sent, a notification progress chart is automatically created and updates in real-time to show the message being delivered and then acknowledged. All delivered messages are recorded centrally with full delivery and receipt logging, plus the ability to export a summary for future analysis.

Save time

Not only does NetSupport Notify send notifications to all or selected members of staff and students in a single action (across multiple platforms), with its screen presence, users can’t ignore them – which saves precious time in the case of more urgent alerts. It also allows recurring events to be scheduled in advance for a fixed time and date: hourly, daily, weekly, even every “xx minutes”.

Plus, it does not require regular management of contacts, making it a quick and easy solution to use.