The Safer Community app is available to support the university community during the COVID-19 pandemic. Safer Community offers the most convenient, most secure and most direct tool for managing your COVID-19 testing. Use of the app is strongly recommended for all students, faculty and staff.
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Help and Support
The Safer Community app has support documentation to help app users troubleshoot known errors and issues within the app.
For additional assistance with the Safer Community app, please contact the Huskertech Help Center by email or by phone at 402-472-3970.
Using the App
The Safer Community app has a number of features to help maximize on-campus health and safety.
Testing Results & Information
Students, faculty and staff with active university IDs can use the Safer Community app to access information about their testing schedule and results including:
- Personalized on-campus testing reminders
- Personalized & private on-campus testing results
- On-campus testing site locations & hours
More information about the university's testing program is available on the Fall 2021 on Campus page.
Health & Wellness Information
The Safer Community app provides access to features for health & safety for faculty, staff and students including:
- A symptom-scale for automated self-assessment
- Personalized guidance and next steps for responding to an exposure or positive test results
- Most recent guidelines from the Lincoln-Lancaster County Health Department
- Contact information for virtual-care teams from local healthcare providers
Built to Protect Your Privacy
The safety and privacy of our faculty, staff and students is our top priority. We have built this app with privacy at its foundation. It collects as little data as possible and has strong data security. For more information about how we have prioritized privacy and security, visit the Safer Community Privacy Statement.
Frequently Asked Questions
Where can I get help or more information if something seems wrong with the app or I receive an error or message that I don’t understand?
A good place to start is the Safer Community app support documentation which is updated frequently. The documentation contains information and workarounds for known bugs and problems.
You can view the Safer Community app support documentation online.
For additional assistance with the Safer Community app, please contact the Information Technology Services Help Desk by email (support@nebraska.edu) or by phone (402-472-3970).