Ivy Tech
IvyAlert emergency notification system overview
Ivy Tech Community College documents IvyAlert as its Rave-based multi-campus emergency notification system, with default Ivy Tech email subscription, optional text, per-campus opt-in lists, and a formal Emergency vs Urgent message taxonomy with abbreviated campus names for SMS length.
Read the official policyInstitution
Ivy Tech Community College
Community College · IN
~160,000 studentsIvyAlert (Rave)
In the policy’s own words
What the policy says
Emergency category definitionverbatim
Emergency – Is placed at the beginning of an IvyAlert that requires immediate action on the part of the recipient to protect life, health, and/or property.
- Defines Emergency message category.
Urgent category definitionverbatim
Urgent – Is placed at the beginning of an IvyAlert message that requires an action on the part of the recipient for their safety. This may include changes in campus operations and instructional delivery.
- Defines Urgent message category including instructional delivery changes.
Sample Urgent weather messageverbatim
URGENT IvyAlert [CampusName]: All locations operating virtually [Insert date] due to weather. Students check IvyLearn & staff check ITCC email for info.
- Published sample matches multi-campus weather virtual-ops practice.
At a glance
How this policy works
- When it activates
- Emergency: immediate action required to protect life, health, and/or property. Urgent: action required for safety, including campus operations and instructional delivery changes. Also used for campus emergencies, operations, and instructional delivery updates.
- Who decides
- Not named as a specific role on the system-overview page; IvyAlert is the college-wide Rave channel for emergency and urgent operational messaging.
- Timeliness standard
- Timely updates language; Emergency requires immediate action; no fixed minutes standard stated on the overview page.
- Emergency notification vs. timely warning
- Public system overview for the Rave IvyAlert channel used for emergency and urgent multi-campus messaging, complementary to campus ASR emergency-notification sections.
- Testing cadence
- Not specified on the IvyAlert overview page.
- Scope & limits
- Default campus list is based on current enrollment campuses; additional campuses require Opt-In Lists; SMS subject to carrier rates and text-length abbreviations.
ChannelsEmailSmsUnknown
Analysis
Reading the policy
Ivy Tech Community College, Indiana's statewide multi-campus community college system, publishes a public IvyAlert system overview rather than only ASR-embedded language. Source: IvyAlert page. Subscription defaults to the Ivy Tech email address and alerts for each campus where the recipient is currently taking classes. Users customize preferences at getrave.com/login/ivytech by adding mobile numbers and selecting Opt-In Lists across 19 campuses.
Message taxonomy is institution-specific: Emergency messages require immediate action to protect life, health, and/or property; Urgent messages require action for safety, including changes in campus operations and instructional delivery. Because of text length constraints, IvyAlert uses a published table of campus abbreviations (for example Sellersburg as Sllrsbrg and Indianapolis Service Area as IndySA). A sample Urgent weather virtual-operations message on the page matches the regional IvyAlert style used in December 2025 multi-campus winter weather cases.
Takeaways
Key findings
IvyAlert uses a formal Emergency vs Urgent message taxonomy.
Default subscription is Ivy Tech email for campuses where the user is enrolled; Rave Opt-In Lists expand campus coverage.
Published SMS campus abbreviations and sample Urgent weather virtual-operations template.
Policy, meet practice
When this system actually fired
2 documented times Ivy Tech’s alert system was used, from the case archive.
Provenance
Sources
- Official
- Official
Tags
indianacommunity-collegesystem-overviewivyalertravewider-reach
Added 2026-07-26Updated 2026-07-26Via ingestion