To help us improve our classroom management software, Netop is researching how schools use Microsoft’s Active Directory and how they organise their users within the Active Directory tree structure.

Any information and insight into the following would be very useful:-

• If the school, or district, uses unique student login names, what format do these names take?
• Are student login names grouped within the Active Directory in a hierarchical structure?
• Are students grouped by school year, class, from, classroom or in some other way?
• Are teachers grouped in the same hierarchical structure, or grouped separately?
• How does this structure change year after year, if at all?
• Is there any link between teachers and student groups within the Active Directory?
• Do students have a specific attribute which is used to denote the user as a student within the Active Directory?
• Do teachers have a specific attribute which is used to denote the user as a teacher within the Active Directory?
• Would the school be prepared to provide a screen shot of the Active Directory tree structure for research by Netop?

Please post a reply or email me directly.
Thank you in anticipation,

Lesley Ford | Global Product Manager for Education| Netop
lefo@netop.com Skype: Lesley.Ford.Netop