Re: New student username/password

[Cal Frye <cjf () CALFRYE COM>]

Aaron Cayard-Roberts wrote:
> Hello,
>
> For years we've had students wait until they are on campus and have
> attended a tech session before we give them their username and password.
>  We've been under a lot of pressure to change this so that the students
> will be able to access campus services over the summer which require a
> username and password.
>
> I'm wondering how other institutions are handling this situation in a
> secure way.

Hi, Aaron,
'Cause we're Oberlin, and we won't have one directory where we can have
two ;-) it works out pretty well. We create the accounts for new
firstyears in late spring, and send them, as part of the Big Book o'
Forms, instructions on how to access our self-service password utility.
the password we send them is for one directory and is not useful off
campus but will enable them to enter their password recovery Q&A and
change their password to a "real" one, which then enables email and web
access to campus systems, like the room-selection site ResEd wants them
to use over the summer.

Hope this helps, ping me for more details if you like.

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