APS Requiring Teachers to Download App on Personal Phoned

[Anonymous]

you can ask for a token but they are annoying i prefer ms authenticator

[Anonymous]

You can just say you tried the app and it won't work. They have to give you some other way to access work email other than your personal phone. If they require you to do something for work, they have to provide you the equipment to do it, so there has to be some device or computer available to you at school for email, of course this may be less convenient for you, but if everyone did that they'd probably get rid of it. I use my phone to log in but they text me a code, I don't need an app.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

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

In the corporate world, if you have to use your phone, they often give you a $50 or so stipend monthly for it.

If you had to use it for work calls yes, but probably not if you were just using it for 2 Factor authentication

Yes, they would and do.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

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

In the corporate world, if you have to use your phone, they often give you a $50 or so stipend monthly for it.

If you had to use it for work calls yes, but probably not if you were just using it for 2 Factor authentication

Yes, they would and do.

Not always

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:They probably have to have MFA (multifactor authentication) to qualify for cyber insurance— and since I want the district to keep my kids’ info safe and have an insurance policy when (and I do mean when) they are hit with a cyberattack, yes, I fully support teachers using devices for MFA. Be mad at the cyber criminals that have made this necessary for all of us in every job, not at the district.

FCPS teachers have been doing this for some time.

[Anonymous]

I'm an APS teacher who is fine with the app. In fact, I haven't heard a single comment about it at my school.

OP is ONE APS teacher - not the spokesperson for all APS teachers. While I know others may have concerns about the app, many do not.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I'm an APS teacher who is fine with the app. In fact, I haven't heard a single comment about it at my school.

OP is ONE APS teacher - not the spokesperson for all APS teachers. While I know others may have concerns about the app, many do not.

I wasn’t happy about it until I realized it’s an app I already have and use. I will have to get better about not forgetting my phone in the car though.
It’s really the same dozen or so people who raise alarms and freak out about stuff. Then they spam Syphax and the school board and complain that response times are long.

[Anonymous]

Get a dumb phone and only have that at school. Then point out that the MS Authenticator application simply is not available for that phone. Make it their problem to solve.

They cannot require that an employee buy a personal smart phone, although most people do happen to have one. There are people at my work who still have dumb phones and only use SMS with T9 for messaging.

[Anonymous]

Get a prepaid or other cheap burner phone and use that.

[Anonymous]

Isn't it odd to require teachers to use their phones while prohibiting 18 year old adult students from doing the same? APS is admitting there are some things only phones can do.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Isn't it odd to require teachers to use their phones while prohibiting 18 year old adult students from doing the same? APS is admitting there are some things only phones can do.

No, not at all. The kids don't need phones to sign into APS technology.

[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

THIS. People who haven’t taught have no idea what goes on in schools these days. Most of the high school teachers I know keep their purses locked in their trunk. These women can’t keep a smartphone in their pants pocket. It will eventually get put down. It’s much smaller than an iPad, so it WILL get swiped. The headspace required to prevent this could be put to better use.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Get a dumb phone and only have that at school. Then point out that the MS Authenticator application simply is not available for that phone. Make it their problem to solve.

They cannot require that an employee buy a personal smart phone, although most people do happen to have one. There are people at my work who still have dumb phones and only use SMS with T9 for messaging.

This PP is brilliant.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Isn't it odd to require teachers to use their phones while prohibiting 18 year old adult students from doing the same? APS is admitting there are some things only phones can do.

No, not at all. The kids don't need phones to sign into APS technology.

maybe not for that but there are other things they do need it for