Panic Alert System (LynxGuide) - Monthly Computer Tests
On Instructor and Employee computers, you will be prompted near the start of every month to complete a test of our panic alert system (LynxGuide or LynxClient).
This checks that the system system is working on your computer and ensures that we have your correct location and phone number. The information you enter into this monthly test is sent to the team that responds to panic alerts.
Please note: This test is vital to maintaining our campus security systems. Please complete the test each month.
To begin the test, click the green "Test Now" button. You have the option to defer the test for 3 hours by clicking the red "Remind me again in 3 hours" button. 
Click on “Test Now” on it will start the LynxClient Testing Wizard. It will ask you to press the F9 and F11 keys at the same time. Note: Please only press the keys once. 
If the test completes properly, you will see a green checkmark at the bottom of the window. Click Next on the blue “Next” button in the right to advance to the next step. 
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If you have a Dell laptop and the F9+F11 keys are not being detected please do the following:
Hold the "Fn" key (to the left of the spacebar). This is the laptop's special function key. It controls the behavior of the function keys along the top row of your keyboard.
Press the escape "ESC" key
Try F9+F11 again (make sure it is still in test mode before you trying again)
If it works, you can continue normally.
If it doesn't work or if you don't have a Dell laptop, please contact the Help Desk at helpdesk@blueridge.edu to report the failure.
If you have filled out your classroom or office information before, the wizard will ask you if the information that it has on file is correct. If it is correct click on the “Yes, this location is correct.” Button. If the information is not correct, you can click “No, this location is incorrect.”
** ATTENTION LAPTOP USERS: If the computer you are using is a laptop and if it is assigned to you as your primary computer, please enter the location information as follows: Your Primary Office Location, Additional locations such as classrooms that you are regularly in throughout the current semester.
For example, if your primary on campus office is TEDC 117 and you teach in other locations, you would input: TEDC 117, PATT 256, TEDC 335, TEDC 213
If the computer prompts you to enter information for the location, this means that our Blue Ridge Alert system doesn’t have any data for the classroom or office. Please enter the correct location of the computer (Building and Room number is fine) and enter your office phone number in the other blank (if the room the computer is in doesn’t contain a phone, type the word “none” in the blank). Click on the blue “Next” button. 
You should now be finished with the monthly Blue Ridge Alert test. You can click on the blue “Finish” button. 