What is FLASHbrief for Schools, Version 2.0?

FLASHbrief is an instantaneous, Internet-based, mass alert notification system.  It is specifically designed for public schools systems and colleges to relay both ADVISORY and EMERGENCY alerts to connected computers in a matter of seconds. FLASHbrief's server cluster, state of the art software and proprietary encryption engine securely harness the power of the Internet to bring a new level of emergency communication capability to every school system or campus community computer... in seconds.

Why was FLASHbrief for Schools developed?

From conception to implementation, FLASHbrief for Schools was developed with one purpose: to save lives. The founders of FLASHbrief, LLC are former military and law enforcement professionals who realized that following the tragedies on the campuses of Virginia Tech, Northern Illinois University and Columbine High school; school communities required an affordable, effective, and reliable form of mass alert communication in order to protect students, faculty, and administrators in the United States. In an era where school communities may be subject to shootings, terrorist attacks, natural disasters, and a growing list of catastrophic occurrences on American campuses, FLASHbrief represents a revolutionary mass alert notification system. FLASHbrief is focused on alerting your school system or campus community (and beyond) with critical information that will help save lives in the event of an emergency.

While progress has been made to help protect the security of Americans, it is apparent that the current technology and protocols educational institutions use to notify large groups of people of threats and dangers within your campus community are inefficient, inadequate, and cost too much money.  FLASHbrief is designed to complement every level of city, county, state and federal government notification and to quickly convey information vital to the safety of your students, faculty, and administrators. More importantly, FLASHbrief for Schools also offers school officials with the means to circumvent conventional mass media news reports, and to provide a direct avenue of nearly instant communication with their school system buildings, campus community, parents and first responders. 

How is FLASHbrief for Schools different from other alert systems or notification methods?

FLASHbrief for Schools allows virtually instant message communication to every computer within your school system, campus community and the parental community beyond... everyone with an active FLASHbrief Internet connection.  There is no limit to the number of connections with FLASHbrief, and it is available at absolutely no cost to the students, staff faculty or parents of your school system or campus community.

FLASHbrief is not a replacement for text messaging, SMS or email notification, but its simplicity and communication speed will definitely make it your choice for first-line notification.

And most importantly, FLASHbrief is priced to be implemented rather than debated.  ANY schools system or campus, regardless of size, can afford FLASHbrief for Schools.

What kind of situations does FLASHbrief for Schools help with?

Emergency Alerts can be used for any number of large-scale, life-threatening circumstances... chemical spills, school lockdowns, campus shootings, hostage situations, and fires come immediately to mind.  Emergency Alerts would also be of critical importance to inform your campus community of severe weather such as before, during and after hurricanes, tornadoes, floods and/or wildfires.

An infinite variety of notices could be sent out on a regular basis to FLASHbrief users. Campus news, announcements, school closings, schedules, birthdays, and other non-threatening situations are all perfect occasions for a FLASHbrief Alert notification.

How does FLASHbrief for Schools work?

FLASHbrief will create an Internet-based Alert Center for your school system or campus, secured with the most sophisticated encryption currently available.  This Alert Center requires a User Name and Password to access. This User Name and Password are known only to your School-authorized personnel and not to FLASHbrief personnel.

As part of a coordinated media campaign, a designated official from your school system or campus would hold a press conference announcing the implementation of the FLASHbrief for Schools mass alert notification system. Your school system or campus would then send an email to its staff which will contain a customized FLASHbrief Schools link that will then take end users to your exclusive download page.  In less than a minute, downloading will occur and FLASHbrief will activate a secure, lightning-fast, one-way transmission protocol that will communicate between your school system or campus and the community. Your school system or campus will share information and expedite communications unlike any other educational institute in history!

When you wish to send either an ADVISORY or an EMERGENCY alert, your authorized personnel will access their Alert Center and choose to send either an ADVISORY or EMERGENCY alert message.  Your message can be an original creation or one selected from pre-saved templates... saving time and to insuring relay of all pertinent details. When ready, FLASHbrief will require an additional SEND authorization code and in just seconds, your message is displaying on hundreds, thousands or millions of connected computers.

Users will receive a message window with an audible alert at the top of their computer screen.  ADVISORY alerts have a subdued audible alert which immediately quiets without a response. EMERGENCY alerts however, have an urgent audible alert which will sound for 60 seconds or may be silenced by the message recipient's acknowledgement.  Once acknowledged by a recipient, either alert will clear from the computer screen.

Who pays for FLASHbrief for Schools?

School system or colleges will incur an up-front, one-time activation fee of $6,000.

What does FLASHbrief charge for fees of Maintenance?

With annual renewal of FLASHbrief for Schools, your school system or college pays only $99.00 per month for unlimited software download access and 24/7 Alert and Notification Panel access via encrypted Secure Socket Layer for School Officials. This fee ensures that all school systems and colleges and members of their community will always have the most secure and up-to-date FLASHbrief features for as long as they choose to continue the service. FLASHbrief for Schools Version 2.0 software is provided free of charge to all users.

How many computers could my School System or College notify in the event of an emergency?

The number is unlimited.

Are there any language barriers to FLASHbrief for Schools?

As the alerts will be sent by an authorized School Official, you will have the ability to appoint a multi-lingual candidate to send messages in any language that is relevant to the cultural demographics of your educational community.

How secure is FLASHbrief for Schools?

Our testing has determined that it would take an elite hacker more than a billion days - or it would require millions of computer hackers, millions of days to compromise the system. In other words, FLASHbrief for Schools is one of the safest mass alert notification systems around!