Emergency Notification Alert Management: Students & Employees

The University of Maine System (UMS) uses the Rave Emergency Notification and Alert System to share critical information about weather closures and other emergencies with students, employees, and community members.

Instructions 

Students and employees will automatically receive emergency notifications from their home university at their maine.edu email address. If a mobile phone number is listed in MaineStreet, they will also receive notifications from their home university by text message at that number.

Users should access the Emergency Notification System to: Verify that contact information is correct, add or update phone numbers or email addresses as needed, and opt in to notifications from additional UMS locations if desired. 

 

Step 1: Log in to your myCampus Portal.

  • Sign in to your myCampus Portal with your maine.edu account.

 

Step 2: Open the Manage Emergency Notifications page.

  • In the LaunchPad, click the red triangle icon with the exclamation point labeled Manage Emergency Notifications.
  • This opens the UMS Emergency Notifications platform.

Screenshot of the Maine's Public Universities (University of Maine System) web portal, showing a LaunchPad dropdown menu with a grid of application icons including Gmail, Google Drive, Microsoft Office, Zoom, YouTube, and various university-specific tools. A red arrow points to a dark triangle icon in the grid.

Important! Although you can freely add secondary email addresses and phone numbers directly in the emergency notification system, edits to your primary (top-listed) phone number will not flow back into MaineStreet, will interrupt the automatic updates from MaineStreet, and in the future, you will need to update both places.

Step 3: Go to My Account.

  • The first time you enter, you will see a red banner at the top of the screen prompting you to confirm your mobile phone number.
    • If the number shown is correct, click Confirm in the banner to complete the process.
    • If the number is incorrect or missing, make updates to your personal details in MaineStreet:

To add more numbers or email addresses:

  • Click the Add button at the right in the Mobile Phones or Email section.
  • You can also add Voice Only lines

 

Screenshot of the University of Maine System "My Account" page showing account settings options including Password (with a Change button), Mobile Phones, Voice Only Line Contacts, and Email, each with an Add button. Personal information is redacted in black.

 

Step 4: Go to Opt-in Lists.

  • From the My Account page, click Opt‑In Lists in the top navigation.

 

Step 5: Choose additional campuses and alerts.

  • In the Subscribe column, check the box next to each university or notification list you want to receive alerts from.

Screenshot of the University of Maine System "My Account - Opt-In Lists" page showing a table of notification lists with Subscribe checkboxes. A red arrow points to the Subscribe column. Two lists are checked: UMA - Bangor Emergency Message Opt in and UMA - Bangor Outreach Opt in.

That’s it—your opt‑in preferences are saved automatically.

Environment

  • Rave, UMS emergency notification and alert system.

 

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