Dear Parents:
Keeping parents informed and involved helps to assure student safety and improve student success. With today’s on-the-go lifestyles, it has become more difficult for schools to reach families quickly and effectively. This is why OLS has decided to implement the Honeywell Instant Alert for Schools.
Instant Alert for Schools is an essential tool for notification and communication. Within minutes of an emergency, school officials can use Instant Alert to deliver a single, clear message to the students’ parents or guardians by telephone, cell phone, e-mail, pager or PDA in any combination. Instant Alert can also be used to notify you of a school closing due to inclement weather. It’s an equally effective way to keep you informed of everyday activities, such as event times and locations as well as schedule changes.
Instant Alert is Internet based, allowing each family to maintain a secure, password protected online profile. On the back side of this letter is an instruction sheet for accessing the system and creating your profile. The school has logged in all phone numbers that were in the buzz book. If you would also like to include a cell phone, e-mail, pager or PDA number in your family profile, please see the instructions on the other side of this letter. You can log into your profile at any time to update your contact information. Maintaining the accuracy of your profile will increase the ability of the school to keep you informed.
Your online profile will enable you to:
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Input your personal contact information
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Select which type of school information you would like to receive on each of your contact devices
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Add contact information of other caretakers of your children, such as a grandparent or neighbor
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View the alerts that have been sent to you in the past
If you need assistance with your profile, please go to https://instantalert.honeywell.com and click on the Help Request link on the lower right hand side of the page, or contact the school at (973) 762-5169. Be sure to set your e-mail spam filter to receive e-mail from Honeywell.com. We hope you enjoy this new service!
