Discovery Education logons

[Jobos]

I'm trying to bulk set users passwords for Discovery Education at a primary and I'm finding the given password length are far to long and even the passwords for year 1 and 2 pupils are 19 characters in length. I understand I could print QR codes that pupils could use but the school is using desktop machines that do not have a camera. An alternative would be to paste a password one at a time into the bulk password reset window but that would take ages.

 

What do other schools use when setting up Discovery Education users?

[steveg]

We found it a nightmare when they forced us to migrate to the new system. We didn't want to use Wonde as were told we cannot pick our own username format and they don't yet sync with AD.

 

Manually doing it we would have to ensure that all our usernames are unique across all their schools not just our own and was told by support there was no way to upload passwords via csv.

 

I have made 1 pupil user account and they all share the same one! Not ideal, but essentially how it used to work, we don't assign work or anything and wont use it for that until they sort it. Speaking to the support team they are getting loads of complaints about it every day.

[Ertech]

Has anyone used Wonde MIS integration and tried using the self service password reset?

 

Thanks

Edited May 5, 2021 by Ertech

[Jobos]

We found it a nightmare when they forced us to migrate to the new system. We didn't want to use Wonde as were told we cannot pick our own username format and they don't yet sync with AD.

 

Manually doing it we would have to ensure that all our usernames are unique across all their schools not just our own and was told by support there was no way to upload passwords via csv.

 

I have made 1 pupil user account and they all share the same one! Not ideal, but essentially how it used to work, we don't assign work or anything and wont use it for that until they sort it. Speaking to the support team they are getting loads of complaints about it every day.

 

Before we migrated I asked DE about having 1 account per class and was told it is something they are working on but it sounds like you have already got there.