Everything you need to know about IRIS

By Zach Jennings

So, most students know about the Immediate Response Information System, IRIS, here at CSU, but how much do you know about it really?

How about it is run by the company TechRadium? You did? Okay, then how about the Chief Information Officer is Rusty Bruns? You knew that to? Okay, then fine, you won’t know this one: “IRIS is the most complete notification system around which allows for the timely exchange of information by phone, text messages, and e-mail, and generates reports that summarize when calls are made and even if a machine or human answered,” said Brian McGlothlin, communications manager.

 How does IRIS work?Well to put it in semisimple terms, IRIS works by including seven points of contact for  every student, faculty, and staff member in a database complied here at the University.  This database is then sent to TechRadium in Texas where our account is hosted.

They do more than that when it’s needed, like “when the need arises for an alert to be sent, the University has 12 prewritten messages with blanks that allow for personalization of that individual event,” said McGlothlin.

 How do you update your information?

There are some people who most likely don’t know how to update their information: I’m one of them…or was one of them…anyway if you don’t know how to update your information here’s how to do it step by step.

 1.    Students can access their information from the CSU home page and make changes or update their seven points of contact at the IRIS button at the top of the CSU Web site or go directly to the link at www.irisdispatch.com/users<P>
2.    After you go to the Web site you need to log in and “your username is your ID number preceded by the letters “CSU” (e.g. If your ID number is 9999, then your username would be csu9999)”
3.    Now your password should be “your full birth date formatted as mmddyyyy (e.g. If your birth date is 01/01/1989, then your password would be 01011989)”<P>  That’s all you need to know on how to access your information in the IRIS system. Even if you did know all about this already it’s good to have a memory update! <P>If you have further questions, e-mail McGlothlin at bmcglothlin@csuniv.edu.