Thursday, October 25, 2007

Re: FirstClass and Forgotten Passwords

Students in grades 6-8 have FC accounts. All teachers that use FC with
their students have a list with their passwords. I only deal with
resetting passwords on the rare occasion a student thinks another may kno=
w
and be trying to use their account.

Dave

David Baker
Mount Tamalpais School
Dean of Technology
Math Department Chair
http://www.mttam.org/
dbaker@mttam.org

A forum for independent school educators <ISED-L@LISTSERV.SYR.EDU> on
Wednesday, October 24, 2007 at 1:34 PM -0800 wrote:
>FirstClass users: How are you dealing with forgotten user passwords? Has
>anyone created a system wherein users can retrieve their own password
>using a "secret question" or other mechanism?
>
>There's a developer who is willing to do the work for us to create such =
a
>system, but it's estimated to cost several thousand dollars to develop.
>If this is a widespread problem, I might be able to convince him there's
>a market for this and he could sell
>it as an add-on to FirstClass. FC (OpenText) has not shown much interest
>in developing this themselves.
>
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