What naming conventions for usernames do you use?

[3s-gtech]

I should add that our staff do follow a name scheme for their usernames. When they change name through marriage or divorce (or gender, not had that yet) it's a bit of a game changing them across as I have to change it in AD, add it as the new email alias (so the old address stays as a proxy), change home folder name, change SIMS username and details in SIMS, then crawl our internal DB to re-match old and new (though HeidiSQL makes this easy enough).

 

I'd hate to have to do anything like this for the students too!

[StephenPink]

Almost everyone seems to be backwards to mine!

 

Students: FirstInitial|Surname|IntakeYear > JBloggs21 (current Year 7)

Staff: FirstInitial|Surname > JBloggs

 

Handled by Salamander, again using preferred forenames. Although from the sounds of it we will be having to change a few, leading to username/email changes due to changes in identity.

[clareq]

We have been fortunate that our trans students have chosen a name with the same initial, so our naming policy means they get the same username. I just change their display name as soon as I'm informed of the change.

[TechMonkey]

Almost everyone seems to be backwards to mine!

 

Only reason we do number first is easy sorting and/or grouping.

[Oaktech]

Only reason we do number first is easy sorting and/or grouping.

 

 

^^ This.

[jthompson]

Another reason why usernames might want to include a random/obscure component is that it forces staff to use directory lookups instead of assuming that students' email addresses can be typed out on the hoof.