At exactly noon, the Texas State University church bells chimed, but that's not what most students were listening for.

“Everyone was excited. Everyone knew, noon today. They sent out emails text messages and everything -- noon today and the siren was supposed to go off and no one could even hear it. Because the church bells were going off at the same time,” said Zach Pace.

The university installed a new campus-wide emergency alert system. This was the first test run with students.

“It went all right. We were hoping we'd get a little more response from people in the Quad and everything,” said Texas State University Police Sgt. Robert Campbell.

Campus police say they'll look at repositioning the sirens or adding to the already existing five towers. It's also in the process of adding 368 electronic message boards into classrooms to give more emergency information. Although this test run uncovered some areas the need improvement, most students like the idea of having a warning system to alert them about any type of dangerous situation.

"I do, since most of the transportation is done by foot I like to know if there are any warnings or anything like that about the weather,” said Heather Denny.

"The long burst you just hear was a shelter-in-place, which would be used if we had an active situation, like a shooter inside a building or outside a building. We would want to get that population frozen,” says Sgt. Campbell.

"I'm more worried if something happens on campus and we do need to get away some how. I'm really glad that they have the system to be able to alert everyone,” said Caitlin Irwin, student.