Teachers began to implement the use of Chromebooks in their classrooms during the week of September 18th. The delay was due to our concern of adequate bandwidth as we began to MAP test close to 800 students on August 28th and missing several days of school due to Hurricane Irma. Typically, the district’s PowerSchool operator would send a list of the students’ usernames and passwords. These are developed using a standard formula and do not change from year to year. Our school chose not to wait on the list but to use the formula in order to determine usernames and passwords for students new to our school and to use the previous year’s list for existing students. In years past, it was typically only students in grades 4 and 5 that used their individual logins rather than the school’s generic login so many students did not already know their individual logins and if they were correct. We found that the formula was not followed consistently with students that have hyphenated names or names containing apostrophes and that quite a few students had misspelled names.
Teachers that requested it were given help within their classrooms as they instructed their students in logging in for the first time by our media specialist while others chose to receive the list of usernames and passwords and to proceed on their own. As teachers encountered students that were unable to log in due to incorrect usernames and passwords, I was able to assist those teachers in determining the correct username to use. In speaking with other teachers within our district, I found that the students with hyphenated names or those containing apostrophes posed issues for them as well.
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