Globe Boosts Informatics Northgate’s Text Broadcast
Posted on 10.07.09 3:09 PM under Centers, Corporate News
“No classes until Saturday due to floods caused by Ondoy. Classes resume on Monday, October 5,” reads the text message sent to students, faculty and staff of Informatics Northgate at the aftermath of typhoon Ondoy, the typhoon that left half of Metro Manila and nearby towns under water.
With Globe’s Campus Connect, Informatics Northgate is able to communicate fast important announcements (i.e. class suspension, highlighted events, tuition fee payment deadlines, release of grades, birthday greetings, etc.) to students, parents and/or faculty and staff.
Sending text messages to students made easy
Our students and their parents used to rely on radio and TV news for announcements of class suspensions during heavy rains and typhoons. When they couldn’t get news from any media source, they would have to wait until 7 AM to call the school to confirm cancellation of classes. Then it would be too late. Moreover, faculty and staff are deluged with text messages with the same inquiry which sometimes caused confusion with so many people giving out information. But not anymore.
Students and parents are now assured that the school would send text messages of important announcements as soon as these are made available by the proper authorities – Local Government Units and/or Commission on Higher Education (CHED).
Globe’s Campus Connect is online. Informatics’ designated personnel can access the facility anytime, anywhere as long as there is an Internet connection. Thus, members of Informatics Northgate community will receive real-time information. Furthermore, students and parents can communicate with the school via text through this program.
Students have access to centralized information desk.
This Informatics Northgate and Globe Telecom partnership was formalized at the opening of the current school year. This started with only a handful of student subscribers, but seeing the value of Campus Connect, more and more students and parents are now connecting with us. This facility is free for all Globe users. However, non-Globe users receive announcements through their classmates and friends with Globe mobile subscription. It is indeed communicating beyond boundaries, beyond networks.