One Day, and I'm already tired
Aug. 6th, 2004 10:47 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
omorkaI went in on Tuesday to pick up my keys. While I was there, I logged on to my computer (normal behavior, right?). It demanded that I change my password, so I did.
When I logged on this morning, it demanded that I change my password again - and refused to take any password I gave it. After giving up in frustration, I found out (in the INCREDIBLY LONG faculty meeting this morning) that MIS has now demanded that our passwords must be "strong," which essentially means t#3Y mU&t B3e w%!Tt34 in !e3T (at least one of each of the following: capital letter, lowercase letter, number, non-alphanumeric symbol). Oh, and 8 characters long (previously they had to be 6-8). Of course having tried and failed to change my password more than five times, the system marked me as a password cracker and I had to call one part of MIS to get them to fix it. I used the character ! in my password; when I read it over the phone to the MIS guy, I pronounced it "bang" and he got terribly confused. :(
I failed my "remember old password" roll on the WebBook (our online gradebook) and so I e-mailed our tech specialists to reset my password. They said they couldn't, that I would have to phone MIS (a different section this time). The first time I tried, I got transferred to someone who wasn't at his desk, and dumped into his voice mail. (He never returned my message.) The second through fifth times, no one answered at all. I finally went up to the tech specialists to gripe, and they managed to reset me so I wasn't blocked; I figured out my password on try #5. Meanwhile, they discovered that several things which were supposed to have been loaded into the WebBook had not been, so I guess it was a good thing I went up there. They're not happy with MIS now, though. (Not that they were thrilled before.)
It's total Bananaville down in the counselor's office. I suspect I'll eventually have to go search for the envelope from AP myself. AP scores are maybe #647 on their list of things to do before school starts, and they're currently working on #12 or so.
I went to RR and essentially demanded that the math Pre-AP/AP teachers be considered an instructional team, like any other instructional team. She said she thought it was a spiffy idea and would get Ms. HR to put her seal of approval on it. If it comes from them as a fait accompli now, as opposed to from me later in the year, I think the other members of the team will accept it, even if the idea of another meeting makes them gag. One improvement down, N-1 to go . . .
When I logged on this morning, it demanded that I change my password again - and refused to take any password I gave it. After giving up in frustration, I found out (in the INCREDIBLY LONG faculty meeting this morning) that MIS has now demanded that our passwords must be "strong," which essentially means t#3Y mU&t B3e w%!Tt34 in !e3T (at least one of each of the following: capital letter, lowercase letter, number, non-alphanumeric symbol). Oh, and 8 characters long (previously they had to be 6-8). Of course having tried and failed to change my password more than five times, the system marked me as a password cracker and I had to call one part of MIS to get them to fix it. I used the character ! in my password; when I read it over the phone to the MIS guy, I pronounced it "bang" and he got terribly confused. :(
I failed my "remember old password" roll on the WebBook (our online gradebook) and so I e-mailed our tech specialists to reset my password. They said they couldn't, that I would have to phone MIS (a different section this time). The first time I tried, I got transferred to someone who wasn't at his desk, and dumped into his voice mail. (He never returned my message.) The second through fifth times, no one answered at all. I finally went up to the tech specialists to gripe, and they managed to reset me so I wasn't blocked; I figured out my password on try #5. Meanwhile, they discovered that several things which were supposed to have been loaded into the WebBook had not been, so I guess it was a good thing I went up there. They're not happy with MIS now, though. (Not that they were thrilled before.)
It's total Bananaville down in the counselor's office. I suspect I'll eventually have to go search for the envelope from AP myself. AP scores are maybe #647 on their list of things to do before school starts, and they're currently working on #12 or so.
I went to RR and essentially demanded that the math Pre-AP/AP teachers be considered an instructional team, like any other instructional team. She said she thought it was a spiffy idea and would get Ms. HR to put her seal of approval on it. If it comes from them as a fait accompli now, as opposed to from me later in the year, I think the other members of the team will accept it, even if the idea of another meeting makes them gag. One improvement down, N-1 to go . . .
