Navigate360 vs QuickSecure
Navigate360 and QuickSecure both help K-12 staff get help fast and run the emergency that follows, but they are different kinds of product. Navigate360 is a school safety and student well-being company: its Campus360 pairs emergency management software with panic buttons staff wear or mount on the wall, alongside visitor management, ALICE training and behavior programs. QuickSecure is one school safety system: it tells staff what to do next in an emergency, shows administrators every room as it happens, and runs the safety work in between, from drills to repair tickets, on the same map.
By QuickSecure · Last verified October 27, 2026
What is Navigate360?
Navigate360 is a school safety and student well-being company. Its Campus360 combines emergency management, panic buttons and visitor and volunteer management. Staff raise an alarm from a wearable badge, lanyard, key fob or bracelet, a wall-mounted button, the mobile app, a desktop, a desk phone or a smartwatch, and alarms can go out silently or audibly. During an alarm, staff open flipcharts for the procedure, mark themselves safe and take roll call from class lists synced from the student information system.
The wearables run on your school's Wi-Fi: setup maps your access points to zones so each alarm shows where it came from. Alarms can reach 911 dispatch centers through an add-on integration with its partner 911Cellular. Around the alarm, Navigate360 sells drill tracking, emergency operations plans, site maps drawn by its own team, an anonymous reporting app, ALICE active shooter training and student behavior programs, and lists workplaces and healthcare among the markets it serves.
What is QuickSecure?
QuickSecure is one school safety platform, built entirely for pre-K through 12, and it is made of modules. Each module does its job on its own, and each one you add connects to the others, so the whole system knows more. Together they link the emergency response to the work of every other day (drills, procedures, tips, repair tickets, connected devices, cameras and safety equipment) through the same campus, staff and schedules. That is what lets QuickSecure tell staff what to do next and show administrators what is happening, live.
Navigate360 gives staff a flipchart to read for each alarm. QuickSecure gives each staff member the steps for that emergency and the room they're in, as a checklist they act on: lock the door and confirm "I'm secured", or walk to the assembly zone their schedule points to and check off their class roster. Administrators watch every room turn locked, unlocked or empty, and Dispatch sends the Alert to 911 through RapidSOS.
Between emergencies, procedures live on every phone with read acknowledgments, version history and review reminders, so the plan staff follow in an Alert is one they've confirmed they read. Repair tickets go to the right team, every camera, door controller and panic button is monitored with a ticket when one drops, and AEDs and extinguishers carry their inspection schedules.
How do Navigate360 and QuickSecure compare?
| Navigate360 | QuickSecure | |
|---|---|---|
| Raising an alert | ||
| How staff raise one | A wearable button (single click, double click or press-and-hold, each set by the district), a wall-mounted button, the mobile or desktop app, a keyboard or desk phone panic button, or a smartwatch. In the app: slide to activate, pick Emergency, Drill or Training and the alarm type, then confirm | Tap any of your school's Alert types in Panic, preset or custom, each with its own workflow, or press a physical panic button. Every Alert asks for a confirmation, the buttons you choose need a press-and-hold, and an Alert raised far from campus is refused |
| What staff carry | A wearable badge, lanyard, key fob or bracelet, charged every one to two months, or the mobile app | The phone they already carry (iPhone or Android). No wearable |
| What gets installed | Wearable and wall-mounted panic buttons that join your school's Wi-Fi. Setup uploads your Wi-Fi access points so each button reports its last known zone; Navigate360 says no additional hardware is needed for location | No wall hardware. A small on-site bridge connects the cameras and door controllers you already own; physical panic buttons are optional |
| Silent or announced | Silent or audible, depending on configuration. Alarms can set off strobes, speakers, paging, intercoms and screen pop-ups | Your school chooses whether an Alert goes out silently or announced |
| During the emergency | ||
| What each staff member does | Opens the flipchart for the alarm when one is linked to it, marks themselves safe, needing help or off campus, and takes roll call from class lists synced from the student information system | Gets the steps on their phone. Lockdown: a checklist, then "I'm secured." Fire: their assembly zone on a map, worked out from their schedule, then a roster check that flags any missing student |
| What administrators see | A command center with real-time maps, room-level alarm location, live video and audio, and roll call status as it unfolds | Every room on the floor plan turns locked, unlocked or empty as teachers check in. Who has secured, who hasn't, and a one-tap re-send to anyone who hasn't answered |
| Updates and responders | Group chat for all staff during an alarm, plus a separate admin chat. Police and fire get real-time access to maps and live incident status | One thread per Alert that police, fire and EMS can join, plus a running summary for anyone joining late |
| Reaching 911 | Alarms from the app or a panic device can go to 911 centers automatically, including an automated call to the nearest one, through 911Cellular, an add-on to Emergency Management | Dispatch sends Fire, Medical and Lockdown Alerts to 911 through RapidSOS. Switched on for each school with two people signing off |
| Drills | ||
| Planning the year | Schedule state-required drills from your state's requirements, adjusted for your district | An annual planner built from your state's drill requirements, with prep briefs and NIMS-aligned roles for each drill |
| Running a drill | Drill mode in the app notifies staff and labels the alarm as a drill; Training mode notifies no one | On the same phone flow as a real Alert, marked as a drill: fire, lockdown, weather, earthquake and AED drills, announced or unannounced |
| Proof for compliance | Logged drills become compliance records, downloadable as a drill list or as completed drill logs | Compliance reports show which required drills are done and which are still due |
| Every other day | ||
| Procedures (SOPs) | Emergency operations plans aligned to FEMA and your state, kept on any device, with flipcharts that are view-only on the phone | On every staff phone, with read acknowledgments, version history and review reminders |
| Anonymous tip line | Anonymous Reporting System: reports from a mobile app with two-way anonymous chat, paired with its Behavioral Case Manager | A web page in the reporter's own language. Each tip is scored 0–100 for urgency; the most urgent go to staff phones as a critical alert |
| Messages | Mass notifications across SMS, email, screens, speakers and more | You choose who gets it (everyone, a campus, a group or one person), what kind of message it is, and how it's delivered, from a routine notice to a critical alert |
| Repair requests | Not on Navigate360's public pages* | Ticketing: IT, facilities, nurse-supply and safety requests from the Panic app or Nexus, routed to the right team |
| Device monitoring | Wearable panic buttons check in with the system every two hours | System health: a camera offline for five minutes opens a ticket, which closes itself when the camera comes back |
| Cameras | Live video in the command center, with cameras marked on the building maps | Up to four live cameras at once, picked from the floor plan. Threat detection (Beta) runs on the same cameras |
| Safety equipment | AEDs, hazards and lifesaving equipment marked on the maps and in site photographs | AEDs, extinguishers, alarms and exits as points on the floor plan, with inspection schedules emailed to the person who does them |
| Visitors | Visitor and volunteer management: screening against the national sex offender database, custody restrictions and block lists, badge printing, and volunteer applications with optional background checks | Visitor management: kiosk sign-in |
| Setup and buying | ||
| Built for | K-12 schools first; its site also lists workplaces, healthcare and public safety agencies | Pre-K through 12 schools only |
| Floor plans | Drawn by the Navigate360 Site Mapping team with facility photographs, plus a mapping partner; staff can update maps in one place | QuickSecure draws them from your architectural drawings and updates them whenever you ask |
| Connects to | Student information systems (PowerSchool named), doors, locks, PA, intercoms, radios, license plate readers and 911Cellular | Your student information system, single sign-on, Axis, Avigilon, UniFi and RTSP cameras, Ubiquiti and Axis door control |
| How it's sold | Campus360 bundles emergency management, panic buttons and visitor management; 911Cellular is an add-on, and visitor roll call needs the visitor management add-on | One module at a time, so you start with what you need and add the rest later |
* Checked against Navigate360's public website and help center on October 27, 2026. Navigate360 may offer it without describing it there; ask them, and tell us if we've missed something.
Where Navigate360 is the stronger fit
Your state law or district policy calls for a wearable
Navigate360 sells badges, lanyards, key fobs and bracelets; a phone app is not a wearable device. Check your state's wording.
You want many fixed places to raise an alarm
Wall buttons, desk phones, keyboards and smartwatches can all raise one, alongside the app.
You want active shooter training from the same vendor
Navigate360 runs ALICE, with online courses, in-person training and a two-day certified instructor class.
You want visitor screening and volunteer approvals in the same system
Visitors are checked against the national sex offender database, and volunteers apply online with optional background checks.
Where QuickSecure is the stronger fit
You want steps staff act on, not just read
A checklist for each emergency and each room, with "I'm secured" and roster checks administrators see live.
You want procedures staff confirm they've read
Read acknowledgments, version history and review reminders on every procedure, on every staff phone.
You want repair requests in the same system
Staff send IT, facilities and safety requests from the Panic app, and each one goes to the team that fixes it.
You'd rather not hand out badges or buy everything at once
It runs on the phones staff already carry, and you add modules one at a time.
Questions to ask any vendor
- After a teacher presses the button, what does the system tell them to do?
- Can administrators see which rooms are locked right now?
- During a fire evacuation, how do teachers account for every student?
- What stops a drill from ever reaching 911?
- Who builds our floor plans, and who updates them when a room changes?
- What happens when Wi-Fi, cellular or building power goes down?
- What hardware gets installed, and who maintains it?
See QuickSecure with your own campus
We set up your floor plans and maps, and walk your team through an Alert and a Drill.