Student Login Assistance

Currently Moodle does not have the ability for students to change their password during logon. Many of our services already allow this but we are working to add more, including Moodle which we hope to achieve soon.

Students should visit https://myworkaccount.microsoft.com where they can change their password and then access all our services following a password change. The My Work Account portal is a central hub for staff and students to manage their account such as reviewing sign in activity and permissions. We hope to enable more features soon such as password reset self-service by registering some security information to help staff and students get back into their account themselves.

As a reminder, when setting or changing passwords they must meet the following requirements:

• Contain 10 characters or more.
• Do not contain personal information such as your name/username.
• Do not contain the organisation name such as “southessex”.

In addition to the above, students should avoid poor password examples that contain the following characteristics:

• Contain personal information such as addresses, phone numbers, or names of family members, pets, friends, and fictional characters.
• Contain word/number patterns such as aaabbb, qwerty, zyxwvuts, or 123321.
• Are some version of single words such as “Welcome123”, “Password123”, “Changeme123”.
• Are common phrases such as “iloveyou”

Poor passwords will be automatically rejected if they are known to be insecure and the student will need to try again. The most common rejection we see is due to including their name in the password.