Loup County Public Schools

RESPECT---RESPONSIBILITY---RESULTS
Loup County Schools will strive for excellence
​and success through responsibility and respect.
PowerSchool Users:
As many of you have already experienced, PS has changed its security settings with their current updated which many of you received this weekend. With version 19.4 (PS is changing its version number to reflect the year of the update) all admin, teachers and parents who have passwords less than 8 characters will be required to change their password upon their next login. This means they will need to know their current password to be able to enter a new one. Here are the changes:
  1. Minimum password length is 8 for all groups. You can set it to require a longer password, but the minimum is 8.
  2. Whenever a parent, teacher or admin password is changed by a PS admin, the user will need to change that password upon their next login.
  3. Password Reuse Rule has a minimum of 1, which means they can’t reuse their current password.
With this update, it is a good time to check your Account Lockout Rule. This applies to how many times someone can unsuccessfully try logging in before they are locked out. Recently a district had an attempted hack where someone in California tried 50 times before they were locked out. I highly recommend the Account Lockout Rule not be set to 0, which disables the lockout, but be a low number especially for Admin and Teacher accounts. To access this page, go to System > Password Rules Management.

Let us know if you have any questions.
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LCPS Core Beliefs
All of the adults of the school are important.

Every school can improve.

All children can learn.

Change is a process, not an event.
TAYLOR WEATHER
Phone: 308.942.6115
Fax: 308.942.6248
Address: 608 Williams St.
Taylor, NE  68879

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