UCMAlerts

UCMAlerts are notifications sent via email, text message and push notification to members of the campus community. They provide essential information about campus closures, safety alerts, emergencies, severe weather, and other significant UCM updates. UCMAlerts uses the Everbridge notification system.

UCM students, faculty and staff members are automatically enrolled to receive campus closures, safety alerts, emergencies, severe weather and other significant UCM information. You will receive UCMAlerts via text message and through your UCM email address. If you have the Everbridge 360 app, you will also receive push notifications.  Using Single Sign-On, members of the UCM community can view their account and notifications and subscribe to additional categories by visiting the UCMAlerts internal portal.

Parents, campus visitors, community members and others who wish to receive essential information from UCMAlerts can opt in to receive notifications by texting “UCMAlerts” to 333111. To subscribe to additional categories, the public should visit the UCMAlerts public portal.

Yes, UCMAlerts powered by Everbridge is different from TextCaster. UCM is phasing out TextCaster; a final text message will be sent in November 2025 to notify those subscribers about the change. Moving forward, all UCMAlerts text messages will be sent using the Everbridge system. Any TextCaster subscribers who are not current UCM employees or students will need to subscribe to UCMAlerts to continue receiving notifications.

No, Everbridge does not track users. See the Everbridge Privacy Policy for more details.

No. Currently, the service is only available with United States phone numbers.

UCMAlerts, via the Everbridge company, goes through an extensive identity certification and authentication process before authorizing any agency or organization to publish information into the service.

When you receive an emergency message from the UCMAlerts system, the email sender will display as UCMAlerts with noreply@everbridge.net as the return email address and the phone number display will be 660-543-4111. 

Everbridge includes a confirmation option, which prompts recipients to either reply “Yes” to a text message or click a link in an email. This feature helps UCMAlerts administrators understand whether alerts are reaching people and which methods are most widely viewed. 

Confirmation also helps the alert system reduce repeat messages. Once you confirm that you received an alert, the system recognizes your response and stops sending additional attempts. Depending on how quickly you confirm, you may still receive a few additional messages from different contact paths. This happens because the system sends alerts rapidly across multiple channels to reach you as quickly as possible.

Not every alert will ask for confirmation, but we may use it during emergencies or future drills to learn which contact paths work best and to help reduce unnecessary repeat messages for people who have already responded. This feedback helps us improve campus safety communication overall.

Opting out of emergency messages reduces your access to timely information. When you remove yourself from the alert system, you lose one of the fastest ways to know something dangerous is happening on or near campus. Seconds can make a difference when police are responding to a threat, severe weather is approaching or a hazardous condition affects part of campus.

UCMAlerts emergency notifications are never used for marketing. They are reserved for times when clear, immediate instructions may help you protect yourself and others.

All UCM-issued cellphones must remain subscribed and cannot be opted out of UCMAlerts. For everyone else, staying enrolled helps you receive important information quickly, whether you are in a classroom, office, residence hall or walking across campus.

The Johnson County Emergency Management Agency (EMA) utilizes the Regroup mass notification system to send alerts to anyone who signs up, including emergency alerts, severe weather alerts and road closure notifications. These alerts can be received by text, email or through the Regroup app.

There are two ways to sign up for Regroup:

• Visit jocomoema.app.regroup.com/login

• Download the Regroup app from the Apple or Google Play store and use the following codes:

  Network Code: jocomoema

  Registration Code: a0385ce995

For more information, the Johnson County EMA has a step-by-step guide pinned on its Facebook page.

For technical support, please contact the UCM Technology Support Center at tsc@ucmo.edu.