ResponsiBLUE

Weekly COVID-19 testing through the university is required for Ann Arbor undergraduate students identified as the following:

• Living in Michigan Housing.
• Registered for any in-person courses that meet on campus, regardless of how frequently the course meets in-person.
• Employed in a position that requires them to come to campus.
• Conducting research in an on campus facility/building.
• Coming to campus to use facilities (e.g. libraries, unions, Rec Sports, Dining).

Regular testing is one part of the university's multi-layered COVID-19 prevention strategy. Regular testing aims for early detection of COVID-19 which enables individuals to isolate themselves - reducing the chances that they will infect others and allowing them to seek treatment earlier.

Undergraduate students represented the vast majority of the university's COVID-19 cases during the fall semester and, at times, accounted for more than 90 percent of students in quarantine and isolation housing. Most of these cases were traced back to small- and medium-size gatherings without appropriate face coverings and social distancing.

The COVID-19 Testing indicator is only visible for UM-Ann Arbor undergraduate students.

ResponsiBLUE has been updated to encourage compliance with the university's mandatory testing requirements and to support campus health and safety.

ResponsiBLUE has expanded from solely being a COVID-19 symptom tracking tool to also providing all UM-Ann Arbor undergraduate students with their COVID-19 testing status by noting the date of their last test through U-M testing programs.

For UM-Ann Arbor undergraduate students, your COVID-19 Testing indicator will either read "COMPLETED" or "EXPIRED".

If your COVID-19 Testing indicator reads as "EXPIRED" and you live on campus, are registered for an in-person or hybrid class, or who come to campus for research, work or other activities (i.e. libraries, union, Rec. Sports) in campus buildings you must immediately schedule an appointment AND get tested for COVID-19 through the Community Sampling & Tracking Program.

The COVID-19 Testing indicator will change from "EXPIRED" to "COMPLETED" upon getting your COVID-19 test.

If you are not in the mandatory group and do not have a need to enter into any university buildings, you are not required to be tested, and can ignore the covid testing box in your app.

However, students living off campus who otherwise would not need to come to campus still are encouraged to participate in routine COVID-19 testing through the Community Sampling & Tracking Program.

The following U-M testing programs will meet the weekly testing requirements and information will be shared with the compliance group tracking and monitoring undergraduate student testing status.

• Community Sampling & Tracking Program.
• Athletics weekly testing program.

In addition, if you are tested through UHS or OHS, your test status will reflect this testing.

Undergraduate students are required under the new COVID-19 policy to complete weekly mandatory COVID-19 testing through U-M testing programs to ensure the timely and accurate tracking of testing completion and compliance.

COVID-19 testing off campus can cause delays in immediate information sharing with the university and may disrupt the timely and accurate tracking of testing completion and compliance information.

All persons who have been diagnosed as COVID-19 positive in the last 90 days are excluded from further COVID testing. Please click here if you have an external positive COVID-19 test result to report. Note: external test results are any test result outside Athletics, University Health Service (UHS), Occupational Health Services (OHS) or the Community Sampling and Tracking Program (CSTP).

Asymptomatic COVID-19 testing is still required if you are mandated to participate in testing. We don't have enough data about the effectiveness of the vaccine to say whether it provides full protection against contracting COVID-19.

Those undergraduate students who are required to be tested (who are living in or entering U-M buildings) are expected to get their first U-M COVID-19 test within 72 hours of arrival to campus or the Ann Arbor area. Please complete your first COVID-19 test at U-M before you engage in campus activities but no later than Jan. 25. Register and sign up for testing here.

Your test status will expire 8 days from the testing date.