• Select target audience from caregivers, students and staff. 
  • Type message up to 160 characters. 
  • Include the school name or a recognised shortcode, preferably at the beginning of the message, so that parents have confidence about the source and can identify which child/school the message concerns. This is often overlooked but is critical in the event of an emergency.
  • Consider adding DO NOT REPLY to emergency text alerts and/or providing an alternative means of contact. This School-links feature was not designed with processing replies in mind. Responses are visible in delivery reports but are not linked to a name, only to a number. See ‘How to identify a user from a Delivery Report’ should you need to track down a respondent. 
  • Click submit to return to the Text Alert Centre and click 'Broadcast Now' to send the alert.