Education

Business Power 800 helps school administrators and teachers provide a safe, informed environment for better learning and teaching.

For example:
An armed intruder has opened fire in the Art Room at Frances Jones High School. More than 400 students are in classes, in the gym, or outdoors for band practice. First-year teacher Raymond Gomez discovers the emergency on his way to the teachers' workroom. He locates the problem and calls the principal's office from the workroom phone.

How the Administrator Reports the Incident to Protect Students and Minimize Injuries: Note this can also be configured via the Web-portal for easy quick configuration

Through linked, wireless messengers, administrators can maintain constant, uniform communication with teachers as they conduct their classes. Administrators can alert all teachers and staff at one time of any crisis or emergency and establish through codes the proper course of action. In addition, codes can be developed for the messengers to remind teachers of meetings or deadlines for reports.

Wireless messengers ensure immediate notification to all authorities. It is a method that can guarantee the entire school body's accurate and appropriate response to bells and intercom commands.

Likewise, administrators can use the same system to uniformly contact groups through established phone lists where an emergency may exist and relay what action to take per established codes, such as

• lock all doors to classrooms because a suspicious person has been reported on the campus
• tornado alert is in process
• requesting all students and teachers to evacuate immediately

The same code or another message can be simultaneously sent to appropriate emergency services through an established list, such as the fire department, police, and ambulance.

Business Power 800 has message distribution capabilities in its VHQ Services to contact as many as 90 different lists with up to 63,000 numbers per list.

To Provide these Instant Messaging Services at your organization or school as in the scenario, you will need: