Emergency alerts on campus screens, alongside your safety plan
In an urgent moment, every place people might see the message counts. Rocket screen alerts replace the regular content on every screen set to allow alerts, across your Rocket sites, and work alongside your school’s emergency notification system, not in place of it.
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Why it matters
Hallway screens keep playing the wrong message
When something urgent happens, the screens in the lobby and cafeteria can keep showing lunch menus and game promos. Visitors and students who missed the PA or text have nothing to read. A screen alert adds one more place where the message appears.
Ideas for Emergency Alerts
Short, approved safety messages
Keep pre-written wording for the situations in your safety plan, reviewed by your safety team and ready to paste.
Early dismissal notices
Use a Notice alert for sudden but non-emergency changes, like an early release, so it does not read as a crisis.
Where to go and what to do
If your safety plan calls for it, say where people should go in plain words. Leave detailed procedures to staff and drills.
Guidance for lobby visitors
Lobby screens reach families and guests who are not on your text list, so tell them who to follow or where to wait.
An all-clear message
When the situation ends, a short all-clear before switching the alert off tells people it is over.
Drill reminders
Before a scheduled drill, a regular timeline item can let students and visitors know it is only a drill.
How it works with Digital Signage
Emergency Alerts, step by step.
Three steps
Choose which screens allow alerts
Settle in advance which screens can be interrupted, such as lobbies, cafeterias and gyms. Alerts only appear on screens set to allow them.
Switch on Critical or Notice
Use Critical for urgent situations and Notice for updates. The alert takes over those screens across all of your Rocket sites.
Turn it off when it’s over
Switch the alert off and each screen goes back to its own timeline.
Setups vary by school; your demo confirms what yours will use.
Best practices
Tips to get it right.
Emergency Alerts tips
Write messages with your safety team
Draft and approve short wording with administrators and your safety lead, then store it in your safety plan.
Name a sender and a backup
Agree on who can post an alert and who covers when that person is out of the building.
Rehearse during a drill
Show staff what an alert looks like on screen during a scheduled drill, and how it is cleared.
Never rely on screens alone
Screens add one more place to see a message. Your emergency notification system, PA and staff procedures still lead.
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Questions
Emergency Alerts questions
A staff member switches on an alert, and it covers the regular content on every screen set to allow alerts, across all of your Rocket sites. Switching it off sends screens back to their timelines. These alerts work alongside your school’s emergency notification system, not in place of it.
No. Screen alerts give people in the building one more place to see a message. Your emergency notification system, PA and safety procedures remain the main way to reach students, staff and families.
Yes. An alert reaches every screen set to allow alerts across your Rocket sites, so one message can cover several buildings managed under one login.
Start by deciding which screens may be interrupted and who can send an alert. Your demo shows the alert controls, and the quote covers the screens and setup you choose.
Your next step
Plan your Digital Signage.
We'll show how an announcement gets on screen and comes off again when the moment has passed.
