In the case of an emergency at your school, the Emergency Mode feature in AP Notify enables users to designate certain urgent messages as high priority by selecting the Emergency Mode option. No individual recipients allowed. You must send these messages to a group of recipients.
Please be sure to only use Emergency Mode in the case of an Emergency at the school. This option should not be used to send out regular messages to parents, students, and teachers.
When choosing to send a message set as Emergency Mode, the following restrictions apply:
- Text message length will be restricted to 160 characters. Extra Characters entered will be removed if Emergency Mode is selected after the message is entered. If Emergency Mode is selected before and text is entered, you cannot enter any characters after the 160-character limit.
- Attachments selected for E-Mail will be removed and attachment option will be disabled.
- Send Later option will be disabled, only Send Immediately option can be used.
- Text Messages will be sent via Short Code 79041.
After enabling Emergency Mode, you can opt to send a Text Message, Voice Message, Email, or all three adhering to the previously mentioned restrictions.
For more information about sending messages from AP Notify, please see AP Notify: Send a Notification.
After messages have been entered, click Next. The Send Notifications Window will open.
- Along the top, WARNING: Emergency Mode is enabled will appear.
- Confirm messages entered are correct. Click Yes.
- The When to Send? Window opens. With Emergency Mode enabled, you must choose to Send Immediately:
Send Later has been disabled with Emergency Mode enabled.
- Click Submit to send the job.