Lockdown, evacuation and Get help for schools, colleges and universities
Alert every staff computer and phone in the school at once, let any teacher call for help from their classroom, and text parents when they need to know.
Tell every member of staff at once, wherever they are
In a lockdown the first minute matters, and most staff are behind a closed classroom door. whoot. puts the alert on the screen in front of every teacher and on the phones of staff moving around the site, and the school office sees who has replied.
The same system lets a teacher ask for another adult without leaving the room or raising their voice.
- Desktop AlertsPuts the alert on every staff computer and a Get help button in every classroom. Priced per school.
- Venue ManagementSends texts to parents and carers, who join the list themselves and can reply.
- Venue VoicePush-to-talk voice rooms for the site team and senior leaders as they move around.
Typical situations
Lockdown
There is an intruder on site. Every staff computer shows what to do: lock the door, turn the lights off and wait for the all clear. The office sees each classroom's reply.
Get help
A pupil is unwell or a situation is escalating. The teacher presses Get help, and the first aider or a senior leader sees which room needs them.
A missing pupil
A description goes to every staff phone and computer at once, and the sweep team reports each area as it is searched until the pupil is found.
The alert appears on the screen in front of every teacher
The alert opens full-screen on top of whatever is showing, with numbered steps and an alarm, and stays until someone acknowledges it. On a projector it appears as a discreet card, so the class cannot read the details.
- Windows, macOS and ChromeOS
- Deployed by your IT team, through your own device management
- Only staff accounts can send Get help
Start from the Schools pack
Choose the Schools and nurseries pack in the set-up wizard and whoot. creates the alert scenarios and the procedures for evacuation, invacuation, lockdown, fire and medical, worded for a school and its phase.
Colleges and universities have a pack of their own, with security control and fire wardens across a campus.
Roles the pack creates
- Senior leadership
- School office
- Site team
- First aiders
- Sweep team
- Teaching staff
- Parents and visitors, by text
Martyn’s Law
Schools, colleges and universities are among the premises the Terrorism (Protection of Premises) Act 2025 covers. Where a site can hold 200 or more people, the Act requires procedures for evacuation, invacuation, lockdown and communicating with the people inside. Schools and further education colleges stay in the standard tier however many people are present; a university with 800 or more is in the enhanced tier. whoot. supports those obligations.
Frequently asked questions
Do parents need an app?
How does pricing work for a trust?
Can a desktop raise a lockdown?
See a lockdown alert reach the classroom
In a 30-minute walkthrough, we declare a lockdown from a phone, show it on a classroom computer, answer it and stand it down.
Or call 020 3856 8700.