UF said it's happy with the latest test of its emergency messaging system conducted Friday.
The text message, sent a little after 11 a.m., took just longer than eight minutes to be sent out to cell phone carriers, UF spokesman Steve Orlando said.
UF was hoping for 10 minutes or better, he said.
The last test, which occurred on Wednesday, took about 23 minutes to be sent out because of a 14-minute delay caused by a glitch in the system.
Orlando had said previously that Friday's test was Blackboard Connect's last chance to get it right.
"Thank goodness for us and for them," he said today after the successful test.
However, not everything went according to plans.
About 3,600 text messages weren't able to be sent out, according to Orlando.
Almost 1,000 additional numbers were deemed invalid, while more than 61,000 messages were sent successfully.
