Students and Employees

Virginia Tech strongly recommends that all students and employees:

• Sign up to receive VT Alerts through phone calls, text messages, or emails to non-vt.edu accounts
• Subscribe to @VTAlerts through Twitter
  
• Download a program to receive VT Alerts through desktop notifications

Without taking any action, students and employees will receive emergency notifications via some or all of the following channels:

• Virginia Tech homepage
• Emails sent to all vt.edu accounts
• The university’s official university social media channels (Twitter and Facebook).
• The weather/emergency hotline (540-231-6668) on the Blacksburg campus
• Electronic message boards in classrooms and other common meeting locations on the Blacksburg campus
  
• Outdoor sirens with voice enunciators on the Blacksburg campus