ours are all just their first letter of their name and surname, but this has clashes occasionally... which can be a headache. So if you've got pupils with strange usernames, do they have strange email addresses too then?
You see I find that naming with the intake year means you have to sort of do a calculation to work out which year it was they started. Our structure is
Pupils
-------Prep School
----------------Year 03
----------------Year 04,etc.
-------Main School
----------------Year 07
----------------Year 08,etc.
Currently as they move each year, I simply create an OU called year 13OLD and I move the leavers into that OU and disable their accounts, then I work upwards moving all the accounts into the next OUs.
It can be a bit tedious, but it doesn't take a long time. Where it's tricky, is the security groups.
We are in the process of setting up SharePoint 2007 and would like to target content to the relevant audience. So we need to have the right security groups setup to do so.
So, for example, a pupil is a member of a bunch of security groups, including All Pupils, Year 08, Form 08E, House1, Y8eng, Y8hist, Y8maths, Y8geog, etc. but as she might choose different subjects as she moves up the school, therefore her groups will need to change to reflect this, and not all pupils will obviously choose the same subjects.
any thoughts? are we going overboard?
cheers
Baronne
