techteacher

Posted on 9/03/09

On 9/03/09, LL Lady wrote:
> I'm librarian at a middle school. I was told today that it
> is illegal to have a written record of the students
> usernames and passwords for the student computer accounts.
> In our district there is no password recovery ability for
> the students. So, when the students forget their passwords,
> a teacher (in my case it's almost always me) has to email a
> request for a password reset to our helpdesk....

I've never heard that it's illegal. Perhaps it falls under the
category of confidential/needs to be kept in a locked file
privacy? Whatever the student passwords are, someone there has
total access to everything in their accounts, so I don't know
why it would be a legal issue to have a file with that info.

I have the ability to reset passwords should our students
forget - maybe your help desk could give you access to be able
to do that?

Our last IT guy was really tough - he made them use a
particular combination of letters/number/symbols for their
passwords. He told the kids that if they couldn't remember
their password, then they didn't deserve to have a computer
account. You could try that....

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