Intrado Safety Shield5.9.90 - App Store

Intrado Safety Shield offers a comprehensive set of tools to help you prevent, prepare for, respond to, and recover from almost any kind of safety threat.

The Intrado Safety Shield app offers the following:

- Panic button on your phone - Instantly alert key players and emergency responders about emergency situations.

- Automatically send life-saving situational data to 9-1-1 to help reduce response times.

- Digital emergency response plans - Provide a central and accessible location for important safety information.

- Role-specific response checklists - Give each staff member specific guidance on how they need to respond to emergencies.

- Complete safety drill management - Launch, schedule, and manage safety drills from start to finish and identify where opportunities for improvements exist.

- Wellness check notifications - Help ensure your school community is safe and healthy with escalating, multi-channel notifications.

- Live collaboration with first responders - The real-time connection helps enable more effective response.

- Secure two-way texting - Enable situational awareness and keep staff and emergency responders connected during emergencies.

- Simplify reunification - Easily match parent/guardian ID information on file to quickly reunite students following a reunification.

- Identify missing students - Instantly account for all children in an emergency.

- A single hub for emergency response - Provide key stakeholders with a single operational view and integration with key systems.

- Mass message all parents and staff - Communicate rapidly in any situation.

- Post-crisis check-in - Reach out and check in on your people after an emergency situation.

Version History Updated minimum iOS version to iOS 17.

Safety Shield now supports third-party BLE beacons to be used with our Wearable Panic Button devices 5.9.90 07/30/2025 * Staff Check renamed - Staff Check has been updated to Wellness Check
* Wellness Check is available to all Super Admin users. Wellness Check can be initiated by a Super Admin regardless of level.
* Updated Email and SMS notifications - A new list of response for both SMS and Email notifications is available once a Super Admin triggers a Wellness Check.
* New SIS Provider - Safety Shield now supports Clever SIS Integration. 5.8.90 05/04/2025 - Bug fixes 5.7.91 01/26/2025 - Bug fixes 1.5.9209 11/07/2024 - Announcements Banner. An Announcements banner displays upon logging in that notifies users of system upgrades and outages.
- Bug Fixes & backend updates 1.5.8809 10/27/2024 Safety Shield is introducing new Reunification and Attendance features:
- Full Attendance and Reunification functionality is available on the Web Portal, in addition to the Mobile Application.
- Safety Shield Attendance is a separate feature and no longer tied to an event. Student Attendance is available for use both inside and outside of events.
- Safety Shield users have the option to set up custom student statuses. 1.5.7109 08/25/2024 - Staff Finder Enhancement. Staff Finder is enhanced to include an option to
restrict its use to only within active events.
- Send Notifications Based on Geofence Location. Organizations can send
notifications to Safety Shield users within the geofence location boundaries
of the organization when Intrado beacons are in place. 1.5.4109 06/02/2024 Added user lockout feature to enhance security. 1.4.3609 03/24/2024 - Graphical update to match new color scheme
- Panic button features
- Bug fixes 1.4.2709 10/22/2023 - Graphical update to match new color scheme
- Panic button features
- Bug fixes 1.4.2 08/18/2023 - Graphical update to match new color scheme
- Panic button features
- Bug fixes 1.4.0 07/30/2023 - Upload files within Chat.
- Search within Chat.
- Access Document Library
- Attach files to events
- Added the ability to set certain notifications to be Critical, overriding Do Not Disturb / Focus profiles 1.3.10 03/01/2023 - Upload files within Chat.
- Search within Chat.
- Access Document Library
- Attach files to events
- Added the ability to set certain notifications to be Critical, overriding Do Not Disturb / Focus profiles 1.3.7 10/16/2022 - The complete Safety Shield help content (release notes, User guide) is available from the mobile app.
- Group chat the user belongs to are displayed by default.
- Custom User Permissions can be created (from the Safety Shield web portal) to allow/block mobile app function individually. 1.3.2 06/27/2022 - The complete Safety Shield help content (release notes, User guide) is available from the mobile app.
- Group chat the user belongs to are displayed by default.
- Custom User Permissions can be created (from the Safety Shield web portal) to allow/block mobile app function individually. 1.3.0 05/22/2022 - The mobile app screen used to call emergency services is updated for clarity.

- The Safety Shield Super Admin can send ad-hoc broadcast notifications from the mobile app.

- One-to-one chat communication is expanded to group chat. The Safety Shield Super Admin and Editor users define user group members.

- On the K12 account type, the attendance process is improved as follows:

1: The student list can be filtered by class.
2: An attendance summary displays just before submitting.
3: For students with duplicate names, guardian information displays to help select the correct student. 1.2.5 12/17/2021 - The mobile app screen used to call emergency services is updated for clarity.

- The Safety Shield Super Admin can send ad-hoc broadcast notifications from the mobile app.

- One-to-one chat communication is expanded to group chat. The Safety Shield Super Admin and Editor users define user group members.

- On the K12 account type, the attendance process is improved as follows:

1: The student list can be filtered by class.
2: An attendance summary displays just before submitting.
3: For students with duplicate names, guardian information displays to help select the correct student. 1.2.0 12/12/2021 - During the reunification process, user can add a custom guardian (other than the ones provided by the district)

- During an active event, user can take student attendance (when configured on the account). (available for Education account only)

- During an active event, user can chat with the Public Safety Call Center (PSAP) agent.

- When reporting an event, user can call an alternate phone number, such as a security desk, instead of a public safety call center. (requires to be configured as such on the account) 1.1.42 09/03/2021 - During the reunification process, user can add a custom guardian (other than the ones provided by the district)

- During an active event, user can take student attendance (when configured on the account). (available for Education account only)

- During an active event, user can chat with the Public Safety Call Center (PSAP) agent.

- When reporting an event, user can call an alternate phone number, such as a security desk, instead of a public safety call center. (requires to be configured as such on the account) 1.1.41 08/25/2021 - During the reunification process, user can add a custom guardian (other than the ones provided by the district)

- During an active event, user can take student attendance (when configured on the account). (available for Education account only)

- During an active event, user can chat with the Public Safety Call Center (PSAP) agent.

- When reporting an event, user can call an alternate phone number, such as a security desk, instead of a public safety call center. (requires to be configured as such on the account) 1.1.39 08/22/2021 • Event reporting can now include the building(s) where the event is occurring.
• Individual steps of a checklist can now be marked as 'unable to complete'.
• Entire checklist can now be 'dismissed' in case it does not apply (e.g. event is occurring in a different building).
• Real-time metrics of an event are available from the mobile app.
• Triggering an event bring a fast-dial option to call emergency services (911) when the event is configured as such. 1.1.27 05/26/2021 • Event reporting can now include the building(s) where the event is occurring.
• Individual steps of a checklist can now be marked as 'unable to complete'.
• Entire checklist can now be 'dismissed' in case it does not apply (e.g. event is occurring in a different building).
• Real-time metrics of an event are available from the mobile app.
• Triggering an event bring a fast-dial option to call emergency services (911) when the event is configured as such. 1.1.20 05/16/2021 - Capability to evolve an active event into a new type of event.
- Capability to attach pictures/videos when taking an action on an event.
- Capability to tag a checklist step as 'Unable to complete'.
- Repositioning of the Call 911 button when reporting an event (to prevent misclick) 1.1.0 01/24/2021 • Added a new event type: Pandemic.
• Added capability to locate your staff (within school boundaries) during incidents.
• Added capability to easily match student and guardian and track the reunification process. 1.0.15 11/02/2020 Added Canada Support
Bug Fixes 1.0.6 09/02/2020