Get Your School Bell Schedule Ready for the New School Year

Posted on August 26, 2015

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School bells

Tips and Resources for Using the InformaCast Bell Scheduler

With fall approaching it will soon be time for the school year to start. When students and staff arrive for class, have your school bell schedule tested and ready to go.

Here are several resources to get you up and running quickly:

How to Use the InformaCast Bell Scheduler - Video tutorial in the Singlewire Academy
Using InformaCast Bell Schedules - Instructions in our online InformaCast help
Tips for Setting Your Bell Schedule in Advance - Read our recent blog article
Sample Audio Files - Download and use different audio for your passing bells
Tech Tip for Creating Your Own Audio Files (PDF Download) - Learn how to create your own personalized audio files

InformaCast is a powerful emergency notification system designed to reach your people wherever they are. Help keep your students and faculty safe by learning about and implementing the advanced features.

Use InformaCast to send overhead announcements to the entire school, request assistance by pushing an in-classroom call button or for automatic weather alerts. It can also be used for triggering school lockdowns.

Watch this four-minute video to see these features in action.

manage your School Bells with InformaCast

[InformaCast] is one of our most critical services. Bells and paging are one of the most important things for schools.

— David Massaro, Coordinator of Technology Services, Redlands Unified School District —

… InformaCast is really the glue for our notification - it can pull in email, our phone system, our speaker system, our visible security system, locks, and make it all work together.

— Shandor Simon, Director of Information Technology, Latin School of Chicago —

…It provides a consistent means of communicating and informing regarding an incident to, not just our first responders in those multiple agencies, but also to our staff and parents who are in multiple buildings, and our students in multiple buildings.

— Tom Wohlleber, Assistant Superintendent of Business Services, MCPASD —

InformaCast has a great deal to do with patient safety. It allows us to take better care of our dementia and Alzheimer’s patients.

— Mike Llewellyn, Chief Operating Officer, Laguna Honda Hospital and Rehabilitation Center —

InformaCast played a key role in notifying our campus about the water main break and the need to use bottled water. I was able to quickly record a message and send it to the campus from my office at home. Our students commented how effective this was in letting them know what was going on.

— John Turner, Director of Networks and Systems, Brandeis University —

Get Your School Bell Schedule Ready for the New School Year

Tips and Resources for Using the InformaCast Bell Scheduler

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