Wednesday, September 16, 2009

Re: Long-term Usernames and Authentication

A forum for independent school educators <ISED-L@LISTSERV.SYR.EDU> writes:
>Has anyone changed their username protocol to be more permanent? For
>example, I could be heynderickxj07 (with 07 being the year I arrived
>at the school) instead of heynderickxj. That way, I would compete
>with only 1,000 others for username configuration, and moving into the
>future my username would never change, even after leaving the school.
We use first initial last name and graduating year (soberle2010) for the students usernames. This has helped tremendously with those who have the same first/last name.


Stephanie Oberle
Technology Coordinator
8th grade Video Production
MS Girls' Soccer Coach
858-569-7900 ext. 4211
858-602-9747 (cell)
858-569-7403 (fax)

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