DawgAlert

DawgAlert gives University administrators the ability to reach students, faculty and staff on and off campus with a clear, consistent message. This system will broadcast information to any communication device - work phone, cell phone, home phone, email and PDAs. It can send up to 150,000 30-second phone calls and 125,000 text messages in 15 minutes.

DawgAlert complements the tools the University already has in place to communicate during emergencies and weather-related delays and closings. These tools include: InformaCast voice and text message phone alerts, web alerts on www.butler.edu, all-campus email and voicemail alerts and announcements through the news media.

They are both emergency notification tools. The difference is DawgAlert can send messages to any phone - work, home or cell - while InformaCast can only send messages to a Cisco IP phone. Cisco IP phones are located in all the faculty/staff offices and in each residence hall office.

During an emergency both DawgAlert and InformaCast will be activated to ensure the Butler community is notified of the situation.

All undergraduate and graduate students, and full-time and part-time faculty and staff can sign up.

Students entering in the fall can enroll starting Aug. 1. Students entering at the start of the spring semester can enroll starting Jan. 1.

A student's information will stay in the system until graduation or he/she is no longer enrolled at Butler. Faculty and staff who have left the University will be removed automatically shortly after their departure. Since adjunct faculty come on and off payroll they will remain in the system until they personally remove their information.

If at anytime you don't want to receive DawgAlert messages just delete the information in your profile. Please know your Butler email is a default and cannot be removed from your profile. You will continue to receive messages at this address even after you remove your other contact information.

Contact the Help Desk at (317) 940-4357 between the hours of 8 a.m. and 5 p.m. Monday - Friday.

Yes. You may enter contact information for parents or spouses in the phone and email fields. Please note that during any emergency, all the numbers/emails in your profile will be contacted.

You will receive a text message only if you enter information into the text message/SMS field.

While there is no charge for signing up for DawgAlert, your cell phone provider may charge a fee for delivery of text messages based on your current calling plan.

First, check to see that your contact information is current. If your contact information is up-to-date and you are still experiencing problems, call (317) 940-4357.

Most affiliate groupware not included in the system. If you fall into this category make sure your supervisor has your contact information. Supervisors will receive emergency notifications and are expected to ensure all of their staff is informed.

It is important to list a local phone number in case your cell phone is not operational.

You will receive a message anytime there is an emergency. The University also plans to conduct a full test of the system once each semester. However, the University reserves the right to conduct additional testing based on upgrades to the systems. The campus community will be notified about tests before they are conducted.

No. Currently, the University only intends to use the notification system for emergency situations and weather-related emergencies, delays and closings.

The contact information submitted is protected by multiple layers of physical and technological security. Access to that data is limited to authorized University staff in the Butler's police department, Information Resources and University Relations.