APS Requiring Teachers to Download App on Personal Phoned

[Anonymous]

APS is requiring all staff to download the Microsoft authenticator app onto their phones to login into the APS network even while at school.

Please write the school board and let them know how ridiculous this is.

Many staff are provided APS phones and for them this is no problem

But for teachers this seems like an invasion into personal space and completely untenable in the classroom.

Apparently, every time a teacher wants to login into a smart board, computer, iPad APS is expecting them to pull out their personal phone to get a code

And many teacher teachers have a school issued iPad. APS pulled the Microsoft authenticator app off those iPads and is requiring staff to use their personal devices.

Please write to the school board and let them know how ridiculous this policy is. We are hoping public pressure will force them to give us alternate MFA options.

[Anonymous]

No offense, op, but this is very common in the corporate world.

[Anonymous]

Well, I have to do this at my job and if I refused they would just fire me. And yes I have to use this same Microsoft Authenticator app on my personal phone that my employer did not provide and does not pay any subsidy for me to have. It is quite common nowadays with how Microsoft has set up its security systems. It isn’t ideal but nothing Microsoft is ideal. The school is probably stuck the way my employer was stuck with this alternative. If you want your personal data that APS had to be more vulnerable, please proceed with your letters.

[Anonymous]

Corporations give staff tokens if they want to opt out of using their personal devices.

Aps refuses to let us use those. Or use the school issued iPads we have.

Also in the corporate world, you are not logging into multiple devices each day in multiple different classrooms

You also don’t work around hundreds of children who will gladly steal your phone if you given the opportunity

[Anonymous]

I do mean offense. Your position is ridiculous and totally out of touch. Having to use Microsoft Authenticator on your personal phone to access stuff at work is becoming standard.

[Anonymous]

I have to do this for my non-teacher job; it seems reasonable to me.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Corporations give staff tokens if they want to opt out of using their personal devices.

Aps refuses to let us use those. Or use the school issued iPads we have.

Also in the corporate world, you are not logging into multiple devices each day in multiple different classrooms

You also don’t work around hundreds of children who will gladly steal your phone if you given the opportunity

Tokens are being phased out. And in my job I am logging into multiple devises in multiple locations in a building ten times the size of any APS school. As for kids stealing your phone, please make that argument to the School Board. I’d like to see them try to respond in their ultra politically correct ways.

[Anonymous]

Employees have to use our personal phones to sign into the network for 2 factor authentication in FCCPS for a long time now. It’s fine. You are overreacting.

[Anonymous]

5:25 again and yes, I’m a teacher.

[Anonymous]

This is reasonable. Stop complaining. I do it at my job.

[Anonymous]

To put it in elementary teacher speak this is a little deal. We can’t exaggerate every little issue. Microsoft Authenticator is a trusted program used by millions of people on their personal devices for work and other tasks. Is it annoying? Yes. I prefer to not have my phone out at work but I can log on to my computer and smartboard then put it away. Much like the data breach, APS employees are making this out to be some unique tragedy that is being inflicted upon us.

[Anonymous]

Many teachers already look at their personal phone all day anyway- what are you trying to hide on your phone Op? Some corporate jobs that don’t give summers off even require you to have teams and outlook on your phone. The horror!

[Anonymous]

Honestly it's annoying but very common. I am a professor and have had to do two-factor authentication on my phone or a personal device for years. It's just kind of like having to drive your own car to work at this point. If I really wanted I could the iMessage to my work computer but that's a minefield I am not going to step in, so I just get the texts.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:APS is requiring all staff to download the Microsoft authenticator app onto their phones to login into the APS network even while at school.

Please write the school board and let them know how ridiculous this is.

Many staff are provided APS phones and for them this is no problem

But for teachers this seems like an invasion into personal space and completely untenable in the classroom.

Apparently, every time a teacher wants to login into a smart board, computer, iPad APS is expecting them to pull out their personal phone to get a code

And many teacher teachers have a school issued iPad. APS pulled the Microsoft authenticator app off those iPads and is requiring staff to use their personal devices.

Please write to the school board and let them know how ridiculous this policy is. We are hoping public pressure will force them to give us alternate MFA options.

Office jobs/corporate jobs/non-teaching jobs do this every day, 20x a day. You're unfortunately not gonna get anywhere with this. It's pretty standard.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Corporations give staff tokens if they want to opt out of using their personal devices.

Aps refuses to let us use those. Or use the school issued iPads we have.

Also in the corporate world, you are not logging into multiple devices each day in multiple different classrooms

You also don’t work around hundreds of children who will gladly steal your phone if you given the opportunity

I'm faculty at a university and do not get a token and I do log in multiple places. You can do it!