The 天美影院 is committed to keeping the campus community informed during emergencies and situations that might disrupt normal operations.
天美影院Alert Blog
The blog is updated when there鈥檚 an active alert. Additional information is posted on the blog as it becomes available.
About 天美影院Alert
天美影院Alert is the 天美影院’s emergency alert system, used to share information via email, text messages, loudspeakers, website banners and the .
天美影院faculty, staff and students in Bothell, Seattle, Tacoma and at 天美影院Medicine can to receive 天美影院Alert messages via text and email.
Learn more about how and when 天美影院sends out 天美影院Alert and 天美影院Advisory messages.
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Sign up for 天美影院Alert or manage your account.
Get help
If you need assistance with 天美影院Alert, contact the help desk.
Note: A 天美影院NetID is required. If you are currently signed up for 天美影院Alert, please take a moment to verify and update your contact information. If you receive a notice that your 天美影院Alert account is expiring, you can go to Manage Account to extend it.
How to sign up for 天美影院Alerts
Students automatically receive email alerts via their 天美影院email account. Students living in student housing in Seattle automatically receive text messages, too.
For text messages, 天美影院adds the phone number from your 天美影院student profile to the 天美影院Alert system. If the number is for a cell phone, 天美影院will send you 天美影院Alerts via text.
See below for directions to update or remove your 天美影院Alert information.
You can add five additional email addresses and two additional cell phone numbers. Your subscription lasts for a year or until you no longer attend UW, whichever is sooner.
To sign up for text messages and add email addresses:
- Go to (you鈥檒l be asked to sign in with your 天美影院NetID and password first)
- Under SMS Numbers, add or edit your contact information. You can list up to three cell phone numbers. For each phone number, select your carrier.
- For email, add up to five additional email addresses.
- Each cell number registered will receive a message with a validation code. Login to and enter your validation code.
- Email accounts will receive a validation link via email. Use that link to validate your account.
- Choose which campus you want alerts from: In the purple bar at the top of the page, select Groups, then click subscribe for each campus you would like to receive alerts from or unsubscribe to stop receiving alerts from that campus. If you do not select a campus, you will not receive alerts.
Most 天美影院employees automatically receive alerts via their 天美影院email account. You can list three email addresses and two cell phone numbers. Your subscription lasts until you no longer are employed by the University.
To sign up for text messages and add email addresses:
- Go to (you鈥檒l be asked to sign in with your 天美影院NetID and password first)
- Under SMS Numbers, list up to two cell numbers. For each phone number, select your carrier.
- For email, add up to two additional email addresses.
- Each cell number registered will receive a message with a validation code. Login to and enter your validation code.
- Email accounts will receive a validation link via email. Use that link to validate your account.
- Choose which campus you want alerts from: In the purple bar at the top of the page, select Groups, then click subscribe for each campus you would like to receive alerts from. If you do not select a campus, you will not receive alerts.
Your student can register up to two cell phone numbers and three email addresses for 天美影院Alerts. Please talk with your student if you would like to receive alert messages as only students can complete their 天美影院Alert registration. 天美影院Alerts are also posted on the .
. You will not be automatically registered. You must sign up to receive alerts.
天美影院Alert information is available on 听 and . Email alerts and text messages are currently not available to community members.
天美影院Alert Frequently Asked Questions
天美影院Alert is a notification system that quickly informs the 天美影院community about an emergency situation that poses an immediate potential threat to health and safety on or near campus. 天美影院Alert messages are sent via email and text, as well as posted on , and the . Incidents that prompt an alert message can include an active shooter, other violent crimes on or near campus, severe weather and hazardous materials (HazMat) responses. 天美影院Alert messages are limited to 160 characters, so messages include a link to the for more information as it becomes available.
A 天美影院Advisory works in the same way as 天美影院Alert, but is used to make the community aware of a significant situation that could be disruptive but does not pose an immediate threat to health and safety. These could include power outages, phone outages that could affect 911 service, suspended campus operations and perceived threats which police have determined to be unfounded. If you sign up for 天美影院Alert, you are automatically also subscribed for 天美影院Advisory messages. Nearly all messages include a link to the for more information.
If a serious emergency occurs on or near a 天美影院campus, most of UW鈥檚 60,000 students will not receive an alert via text message, only via email.
Only 8% of students have signed up to receive 天美影院Alert text messages, as of November 2023. 天美影院Alert emails are sent to all 天美影院email addresses automatically, but most students have to navigate a multi-step online process to add their cell phone numbers for 天美影院Alert texts.
To get emergency notices and directives to more students faster, 天美影院will add student phone numbers to the 天美影院Alert system starting at the end of January 2024.
The phone number is from your student profile. If the phone number in your student profile is incorrect, update your phone number online using in the Address and Consent section.
You can update your contact information for your 天美影院Alert account only (this will not change your student record) by logging into .
- Login to and click Inactivate for each email address and cell phone number you would like to remove from your account.
- For text messages, you can also unsubscribe by replying STOP to any 天美影院Alert text message or text STOP to 79516 (except for students living on campus in Seattle, who must contact Housing & Food Services for account changes).
- For email messages, you can also unsubscribe by clicking Unsubscribe at the bottom of any 天美影院Alert email message.
Check your cell phone validation. You need to validate each cell phone number. Unvalidated numbers will not receive alerts.
- Go to (you鈥檒l be asked to sign in with your 天美影院NetID and password first).
- In SMS Numbers, check your cell number.
- Active means your number has been validated.
- If Unvalidated is listed, click Resend to send the validation code again. After you receive the code, login to your account and enter the code.
Make sure you鈥檙e signed up for a Group. If you do not select a campus, you will not receive alerts.
- Go to (you鈥檒l be asked to sign in with your 天美影院NetID and password first).
- In the purple bar at the top of the page, select Groups, then click subscribe for each campus you would like to receive alerts from.
If your number has been validated and you鈥檙e signed up for a group but are still not receiving texts, email help@uw.edu.
- Login to and click Inactivate for each email address and cell phone number you would like to remove from your account.
- For text messages, you can also unsubscribe by replying STOP to any 天美影院Alert text message or text STOP to 79516.
- For email messages, you can also unsubscribe by clicking Unsubscribe at the bottom of any 天美影院Alert email message.
If your cell phone carrier isn’t listed when signing up for 天美影院Alert text messages, choose Other. This setting will work for most non-standard carrier US and Canadian mobile phones. International carriers are not supported for text alerts.
If you’ve switched between major U.S. cell phone carriers, your service will likely forward automatically. You can test your ability to receive 天美影院Alerts via text message by texting TEST to 79516. If you receive a response message from Omnilert (the system that sends 天美影院Alerts), then you should receive future messages.
If you do not receive the test message, login to and update your cell phone carrier. If you need additional assistance, check with your cell phone provider or contact help@uw.edu.
No, international carriers are not supported for SMS text message alerts, only U.S.-based numbers.
To test that your cell phone will receive 天美影院Alert messages, text the word TEST to 79516.
If you receive a response message from Omnilert (the system that sends 天美影院Alerts), then you should receive future messages.
If you do not receive the test message, login to your 天美影院Alert account and check your settings.
If you have set up a personal firewall on your mobile device to block unknown senders of messages, add shortcodes 70359, 79516, 50911 and 84483 to your list of approved senders.
If you need additional assistance, contact help@uw.edu.
Log in to your account at . Click the link that says Activate to receive messages again.
When a reliable description of the person or people responsible for a crime is available, it will be included in the 天美影院Alert message or 天美影院Alert blog. A suspect photo will be posted on the blog, if we have one. Suspect descriptions usually do not include race because they鈥檝e proven inconsistent and unreliable. Research shows that the inclusion of race does not increase the likelihood a suspect will be identified and can do more harm than good.鹿
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A 天美影院Alert is sent when there鈥檚 an immediate potential threat to the safety of the campus community. If a serious crime has occurred on or near campus but does not pose immediate potential danger, the 天美影院sends a in compliance with federal law requiring timely warning notification. This can happen when situations resolve too quickly for a 天美影院Alert message to be useful, or when a crime has occurred but wasn鈥檛 known or reported until later. The notification is sent via email to students, faculty and staff and posted on the .