The following are sample messages to assist with content that you may consider when developing and sending School Closure Notifications through Alert Solutions 2.0:  

To ensure that parents opted in to receive your school closure notification receive it based on their parent portal preferences, please use the School Closure category:

Sample Closure Content:

Tip! Items noted in [brackets] are to be used as reminders and are not available merge fields within Alert Solutions.

Subject: School Closed Today:  This is a message from [School Name]: [School Name] will be closed today, [Date], due to [reason]. To repeat, [School Name] will be closed today, [Date], due to [reason]

Subject: School Closed Tomorrow: This is a message from [School Name]: [School Name] will be closed tomorrow, [Date] due to [reason]. To repeat, [School Name] will be closed tomorrow, [Date] due to [reason]

Subject: Delayed Opening: This is a message from [School Name]: [School Name] will have a [# of hours] delay today, [Date], due to [reason]. To repeat, [School Name] will have a [# of hours] delay today, [Date], due to [reason].

Subject: [Building Name/District Name] Early Dismissal: This is a message from [Building Name/District Name]: [Building Name/District Name]: will be dismissed at [Time] today, [Date] due to [reason]. To repeat [Building Name/District Name]: will be dismissed at [Time] today, [Date] due to [reason].

As with all messages created in Alert Solutions, use standard best practices for Voice, Email and SMS channels.