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Results of MCC Alert Test


On Thursday, April 30, we successfully tested MCC Alert, the college’s new alerting tool. We’re pleased to share with you that 85% of MCC Alert registrants received the alert with 31 seconds; 90% received it within 1.5 minutes.

The data clearly illustrate the speed of text and email messages over phone calls.

·         MCC Alert delivered over 11,000 text messages within three and a half minutes.

·         MCC Alert delivered over 28,000 email messages in about eight minutes.

·         MCC Alert contacted almost 12,000 users by phone in about 20 minutes.

Because text messages are delivered the fastest, you are encouraged to include a texting phone number in MCC Alert.

All contact information contained within SUNY NY-Alert on April 24 was transitioned to MCC Alert. If you did not receive the test alert Thursday afternoon, please check your registration in MCC Alert. You can access MCC Alert via myMCC; select the Employees tab, the Emergency Plan channel (lower left) and MCC Alert System.

If you have any questions, please do not hesitate to contact us.

Cynthia Cooper, David Lane, Rich Schill
Marketing and Community Relations, Technology Services, Public Safety
05/04/2015