First, complete your Spring 2021 Cornhusker Commitment.
A completed commitment is required before you can download the Safer Community app. Students should also complete the Spring 2021 COVID-19 Training.
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2Download the Safer Community app.
During Spring Semester, the Safer Community app will allow you to schedule saliva-based tests and to display your Building Access status to wellness attendants at doors across campus, prior to entering.
If you have a smartphone, download the full-featured Safer Community app from the links below.
Apple iconSafer Community for iOS
Android iconSafer Community for Android
For help with the app, see Help and Support on the Safer Community app page. If you don't have a smartphone, see under step 3, below.
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3Using the app, schedule a test. Times are available from Jan. 19-24.
If you don't have a smartphone, you can schedule your test using this form. Please only use this form if you do not have a smartphone, as the Safer Community app also supports daily building access and notifications, as well as testing access, to make it easier to keep our university safe this spring.
We're testing the entire university community upon return to campus for Spring Semester. Results are anticipated within 24 hours, and notifications will be made through the Safer Community app. Learn how to prep for the test by viewing the COVID-19 Saliva Testing video and reviewing information in the FAQ.
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More About Spring Testing
In preparing for Spring Semester we remain guided, as we were last fall, by the priority of offering as much in-person education as we can safely provide. However, doing so safely in spring will look different than it did in fall. Our new safety measures are designed to meet the current conditions of the COVID-19 pandemic, and provide us with the flexibility to adapt as either conditions improve or new challenges emerge, and as vaccines become available.
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We have stood up the capacity for less-invasive, faster diagnostic saliva-based testing utilizing UNL’s Veterinary Diagnostic Center.
Based on the recommendation of the Lincoln-Lancaster County Health Department, all students, faculty and staff who will be on campus in the Spring Semester are required to be tested via this convenient saliva-based testing during the week of January 19-24. View a list of testing locations.
A new Safer Community app, for iOS, Android, and the web, will be available soon. The app will notify you of your test results, usually within 24 hours. To gain entry to campus buildings — including academic buildings, campus recreation facilities and dining halls — you will be required to show your app with a "building access granted" status to a campus wellness attendant or university staff member, who will be located at designated entries for campus buildings.
If you don’t own a smartphone, you can use Safer Community for the web on a desktop or laptop device and obtain your results online. You can print a pass noting your "building access granted" status to show to wellness attendants. If you don't have access to a printer, we've made two print kiosks available, located at the 17th & R Parking Garage on City Campus and at the East Campus Service Building.
Students will also be required to adhere to an updated Cornhusker Commitment prior to the beginning of the Spring semester, which includes an affirmative pledge to comply with all testing requirements and to follow campus safety protocols. This can be found in MyRed and will need to be completed prior to scheduling your re-entry test.
After completing your first test, the Safer Community app will let you know the date when your next test result is due, likely around 10 days. Please schedule your second test at least one day prior to that date, to ensure your new results are posted and your access to campus buildings isn’t disrupted. Once we have the results from the re-entry tests, a determination will be made in close consultation with LLCHD about what level of additional testing might be needed. This may include tests of particular subsets of the community that warrant additional testing. We will continue to adapt and adjust our testing as the semester progresses.
More details at: https://covid19.unl.edu/spring-testing