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U Cincinnati Links Blackboard to Text Messaging
7/18/2007
The school also used the system twice during the semester to alert students to cancellations owing to snow.
The University of Cincinnati has received attention for its two-year-old UC Mobile program, in which it is distributing a university-supported cell phone to each of its students. "Across the country, housing directors are saying, 'My students don't use land lines, so rip them out,'" Siff said. "This is an approach to dealing with this new technology."
The university mobile phones offer features like five-digit on campus dialing, a special help number (so that students who dial "*UC" are immediately connected with the public safety office), shuttle bus arrival notification in real time, and now the Blackboard alerts.
This fall, the 4,000 resident students who receive their "Bearcat" cell phones will automatically be signed up for the clearTXT service. "If something were to happen in the residents' halls," Siff said, "we have their numbers.... They'll get alerts."
In addition, Foster said, "We will be encouraging faculty and students [to sign] up for clearTXT." Campus-wide, about 1,500 students and instructors, out of some 35,000, signed up for the service. With the pilot behind it, the university expects to greatly increase participation as it begins to heavily promote the service and its advantages.
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Linda L. Briggs is a freelance writer based in San Diego, Calif.
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