Secondary School Email

cruncher123

Anybody know if there are any standard Policies and Guidelines for School Email. My children have been allocated email addresses that are their full first name and surname@ schoolname .ie This looks mad to me ... I would have thought that they should use an alias ??

Cipher

Would each student not have a unique student id number which would not clearly identify the owner.

I know some universities implement this format for personal email addresses.

dlofnep

In universities that's normal, I doubt secondary schools have such strict practices.

As for their e-mail address, I wouldn't be overly concerned about it. Worst case scenario, just creating a new e-mail account for them and forward all of their e-mails from the school account onto it. Have them only use their new alias account on public forums and such..

yoyo

in dit its fname.sname@student.dit.ie and a 1, 2, 3 etc is added to the end of duplicate names, e.g john.smith9@student.dit.ie, always found that weird as you must use student id to login

Nick

wolfric

I don't find that unusual. They have personal emails they can use for things they don't want to advertise their identities on (such as gmail etc).

I'd imagine the point of having a school email is for school related things. Anything from emailing teachers, other students or organisations that are more professional and/or associated with education. In each of these cases, there is no harm in having your email address public identify you. It's even a benefit. It means if you abuse it, it's easy to ring up the school; if you email someone, you can't pretend to be someone else. I can imagine if you did it by numbers, you'd have students emailing others saying "hey alice it's bob" when in fact it's mallroy. If you didn't look closely at the number or don't remember your friends number, you might be tricked. Same goes for teachers and i'd imagine it's easier on administration.

If you're concerned, sign your children up for a free gmail account.

syklops

wolfric wrote: »

I don't find that unusual. They have personal emails they can use for things they don't want to advertise their identities on (such as gmail etc).

I'd imagine the point of having a school email is for school related things. Anything from emailing teachers, other students or organisations that are more professional and/or associated with education. In each of these cases, there is no harm in having your email address public identify you. It's even a benefit. It means if you abuse it, it's easy to ring up the school; if you email someone, you can't pretend to be someone else. I can imagine if you did it by numbers, you'd have students emailing others saying "hey alice it's bob" when in fact it's mallroy. If you didn't look closely at the number or don't remember your friends number, you might be tricked. Same goes for teachers and i'd imagine it's easier on administration.

If you're concerned, sign your children up for a free gmail account.

Absolutely. The school email address should be for school things only. And by school things I dont mean invites to Sophie's party, or discussions on where the best place is for the Debs. In fact I wouldn't give the kids access to it, I would have it forward all email to the parents email address.

There are plenty of free providers of email out there with out costing the school money in bandwidth and storage(and security) having kids using the school address like their own addresses.