“Ease of use” is paramount to user acceptance

The e2Campus selective mass notification system allows non-technical users to administer, manage or receive time-sensitive notifications. We believe that if a system has too many steps to implement, then it will be a barrier to success for your school’s goals. e2Campus, above all, is easy to use.

Benefits for School Administrators:

-Is Easy to Use
-Protects Students & Staff
-Enforces Clery Act
-Delivers Instantly
-Performs Reliably
-Conveniently Reduces Tasks
-Is Affordably Priced
-Sets Up Easily

Benefits for Students & Staff:

-Convenient
-Easy to use
-Fast
-Accurate
-Effective

Benefits for School Administrators

Easy to Use. e2Campus was designed for non-technical users – both administrators and students. Every step of the registration process is self-explanatory, so no training is required of students and little training is needed for school administrators.

Protect Students and Staff. e2Campus can quickly alert students and staff with specific information to increase public safety no matter where they are – on and off campus. No standalone siren, email system, or phone dialer can do this. School officials can keep students and staff out of harms way, whether it be dangerous road conditions, a criminal at large, or a terrorist threat.

Enforce Clery Act. “e2Campus is a practical way to protect students on or off campus by issuing a Clery Act Timely Warning,” explains Catherine Bath, Executive Director of Security On Campus, Inc. e2Campus can help satisfy Clery Act requirements by alerting students to crimes in progress or still at large, unlike posting crime reports on a web page or newspaper that few people ever review.

Deliver Instantly. e2Campus sends out more than 18,000 SMS text messages every minute. To send an alert with a voice-based phone dialer to the same group of people could take hours.

Performs Reliably. e2Campus SMS notifications reach subscribers even if wired and wireless networks are jammed with callers. During a crisis when voice and data networks are all jammed, the small size of a SMS text message alert goes through first. Traditional telephone systems will become jammed during high volume, so students will likely not receive a recorded message in a timely manner. Email systems will suffer the same fate, because the Internet will slow during high traffic and result in emails being delivered much later than they were sent. School web pages and entire web sites may also become un-viewable during high traffic volume. Additionally, traditional telephones, emails and web pages assume that the student is standing by his/her home phone or actively looking at his/her email or web page when the message is sent, which is unlikely in the highly-mobile lifestyle of a college student.

Conveniently Reduce Tasks. e2Campus is convenient, because one person can send one alert that is sent to everyone on all delivery mechanisms. Using e2Campus, you effectively combine all these steps through one interface so you NEVER have to:

• compose and send an email blast
• contact the webmaster to update the web site accordingly
• contact the radio station to make an announcement
• contact the school newspaper to post the news
• turn on the fire alarm or other siren system
• record a message on a phone dialer to call all students and faculty
• or worse, initiate a human phone tree

Affordably Priced. e2Campus is a fraction of the cost of older, larger, more complicated systems that involve hardware, software, network upgrades, migration paths, labor, etc. e2Campus costs about $1.50 a year per person. There are no activation fees or hidden charges. Siren systems can cost $200,000 and require additional annual maintenance and repairs. Voice-based phone dialers can start at $20,000 with additional charges each time the system is used that could easily go into the $100,000s if used throughout the year.

Sets Up Easily. e2Campus is 100% web-based, so there is no hardware or software to buy and install. Unlike other systems that take weeks to install or integrate, e2Campus can be setup in 30 minutes. With SmartCode™, simply cut and paste a line of code into a new or existing web page to create a registration form or to display the actual notifications. This means there is no new system to create and students don't have to go to an unknown third-party site to start the registration process.

Benefits for Students & Staff

Convenient. It delivers notifications wherever subscribers are located at the time of the announcement, because they most likely carry their mobile phone with them wherever they go.

Easy to use. Subscribers receive notifications without doing anything, unlike flipping through TV stations or operating a computer.

Fast. It delivers these important notifications within seconds of the official announcement.

Accurate. Subscribers receive up-to-date news even when the news changes, so they’ll never get outdated news unlike if they turned off the TV, radio or computer too soon.

Effective. Subscribers receive detailed information so they know exactly what is going on and can reference that info on the go.

Find out how other schools are using e2Campus in addition to public safety alerts.