Passwords
As a general rule PWPSD IT is not a fan of shared accounts, or groupings of accounts that share a password. In most cases we are not likely to set that up as this sort of setup invites malicious uses, accidental security holes, and sometimes confusion.
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Please do not share your password with other people. It is not really a good idea to share it with PWPSD IT Staff either. PWPSD IT can and will change your password to something else if they need to be ‘you’, which is often valuable, but do not necessarily need to know your password. If you give it out (or think someone might know it) be sure to change it to something else as soon as it is reasonable. There are times PWPSD IT will still provide you with a password that you are unable to change or that they will need your password as a troubleshooting tool. Following the troubleshooting, you should still change your password. Also in most of these cases you should KNOW the staff asking for the password (our department is not that big). If you do not know the email address/person requesting…talk to a person you do know about it to see if it is legit.
Accounts
If the student previously attended a PWPSD school their username and password are the same as it was last year. If they moved schools, the account will be moved, with the password remaining the same. If they did not, then a new account is generated.
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If there are duplicates (students with the same last name and similar first and middle names) the last one created will have a number appended to the end of it. It starts with 1 and goes up from there.
Personally Owned Devices
PWPSD Encourages Staff and students to use the device that they like, in the manner they prefer to use it. However, data security is still SUPREMELY important.
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