Too many passwords to remember?

These days, it's not uncommon to have a number of logins to try to remember - your personal email, work login, Apple ID, online banking, PayPal, eBay.......and then you get shown an online tool that needs you to create yet another login?!

It's easy to get initially excited about online apps and accounts when you first try them and then end up with a gazillion different logins to try to remember and so end up giving up. A way to avoid this is to use your college email to sign up and your college password. That way, everything to do with college is the same. Or, if you are concerned about having too many accounts with the same login, use your college email but different passwords and keep a note of the passwords in your diary. Sensitive information should not be being stored in any of these apps anyway but of course, always be careful to protect your accounts!

It's also not a bad idea to create a department/team google account if you think you'll use it. Be careful to share the details only with your team and to not use them for storing anything sensitive but it does mean that you have a common googledrive and YouTube account. Backups of assignment briefs etc can be stored on the googledrive (just in case the server goes down), you can create shared docs with students for collaborative projects and you can have a department YouTube Channel. You Tube channels are useful ways of keeping all the videos that you use in class together in a playlist and you can upload student assessments. If the video's are private, then no one can see them except you, if they are unlisted, they can only be viewed if a link has been shared and if you want to showcase some amazing student work, make it public.