One system for the office, every classroom and the yard.
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Every classroom hears it. 911 knows which one.
One phone system for the office, every classroom and the yard. Page every room from any desk phone. When a room dials 911, help gets the room number, and the office knows at once.
Example Elementary is a sample school.
- The office dials 500And says it once: “Teachers, indoor recess today.” A PIN keeps the all call to people who know it.
- Every room hears itEach classroom’s desk phone plays the page on its own speaker, and the horn on the yard joins in.
- Calls aren’t cut offPhones already on a call are skipped, so a teacher talking with a parent keeps talking.
- 911 gets the roomRM 204 with the school’s checked address, and the number a dispatcher can call back.
- The office knows at onceThe principal, the front office manager and the district’s safety office, by text, a call, email or the iPhone app.
- The call can be recordedTurn it on, and every 911 call is recorded, even when other recording is off.
- Close nowClose the main line from the web or the iPhone app, until you turn it off.
- Callers hear whyYour recording plays first, then the call goes to voicemail.
- The fax keeps workingEvery number on company routing closes together. A fax-only line keeps taking faxes.
Paging
Indoor recess, in every room at once.
Make a paging group for the whole school, one for each floor and one for the gym and the yard, each on its own code. Dial it from any desk phone and speak. Classroom phones play the page on their own speakers, and paging speakers carry it down the halls and across the yard.
- A PIN on the all call. Only people who know it can page the whole school.
- Two-way when you want it. The paged phones’ microphones open too, like an intercom.
- Only your own phones page. A caller from outside can’t reach the speakers, even by transfer.
Halls and roomsAlgo 8180
For hallways, the library and rooms without a desk phone. Indoors, powered over its network cable.
The yardAlgo 8186
For the yard, the field and the bus loop. Rated for outdoors, and in our device list.
The gymValcom VIP-415
Hangs from the gym’s high ceiling. Indoors, one-way or talkback.
Product photos: Algo Communication Products and Valcom.
911
911 knows the room. The office knows at once.
Give each classroom’s line its room, like RM 204. A 911 call from that room carries it with the school’s checked address, so help finds the right door. And the moment 911 is dialed, the people you choose are told.
- As soon as 911 is dialedNot when it’s answered, so a call that never connects still alerts.
- Email, text, a call or the appThe principal on an iPhone, the front office by text, the district by email.
- Each building its ownA campus’s alerts reach its own people; the district can hear of all of them.
- Send a testEach person gets a test over every way you chose, so nobody’s first alert is a real one.
A new or changed address is reviewed before 911 uses it, within 24 hours. 911 with your address
Sample voicemail
Attendance7:31 AM · 0:12
“Hi, this is Dana Lee. Maya in Room 108 has a fever, so she’s staying home today.”
The front office
Parents call one number. Each call finds its desk.
A short menu sends absences to the attendance mailbox, the nurse’s calls to the nurse, and everything else to the front office, which rings first and then the rest of the office team.
Absence messages are written out and emailed, so whoever takes attendance reads the morning’s calls in a minute, and anyone in the office can open the shared mailbox.
Hours
Snow days and days off.
Set the school day once, then add the holidays, and each break as a day or a range of dates. Calls on those days get your closed message.
On a snow day, Close now sends every call to a closure like Weather, until you turn it off, from the web or the iPhone app.
Phones and people
A phone in every room. The office in every pocket.
Classrooms
A desk phone in each room with its own extension, so a teacher reaches the office in a few digits and the office reaches any room.
The office and the halls
Desk phones at the front office, and cordless handsets for the nurse and the custodians, who are rarely at a desk.
On the go
The app puts the school’s number on a cell, on iPhone and Android: a principal at the district office, a coach at an away game.
$15 a month for each person or shared phone, like a classroom’s, and $2 a month for each number, kept or new. Phones are bought once.
Moving a school, or a whole district?
We’ll plan the move, the numbers and the phones with you, and your old service keeps working until the day we tell you.
Questions from schools.
- Can we page one floor, or just the yard?
- Yes. Each paging group has its own code: the whole school, a floor, the gym and the yard. Put a PIN on the all call, and only people who know it can page everyone.
- Can a classroom answer back?
- Yes. Make the group two-way, and the paged phones’ microphones open too, like an intercom.
- What does 911 get when a classroom calls?
- The school’s checked address with the room you gave that line, like RM 204, and the number a dispatcher can call back. A new or changed address is reviewed before 911 uses it, within 24 hours.
- Who is told when someone dials 911?
- Anyone you choose, up to 25: the principal, the front office, the district’s safety office. Each by email, text, a call or the iPhone app, as soon as 911 is dialed.
- Does every classroom need its own number?
- No. Each room gets an extension, and the school can share one number. A room can have its own number too, for $2 a month.
- Can we keep our numbers?
- Yes. We move them for free, and your old service keeps working until the day we tell you.
911
911 dialed
Jamie Morgan, principalApp
Maria Lopez, front officeText