Saga of the student IDs

[bhskittykatt]

So I'm taking classes right now to be a Physical Therapy Assistant. It's an online hybrid program, meaning we only meet about one weekend a month and get all our lab stuff done then.

The lab is built very securely. You need a pass key to get into the main doors just to the foyer, a key to get past the foyer to the actual hallway with classrooms and labs, and a key to get into said classrooms and labs. Our student IDs are SUPPOSED to do this.

My ID was about two years old. It had the magnetic strip but didn't have the chip inside, but the student services office said it should still work. First lab last month...no dice.

So yesterday, our teacher arranged to have someone in student services for people who didn't have IDs to pick them up (since most of my classmates are from out of town and haven't had a chance to pick them up) and to have someone in IT to program them. This was arranged to happen on our lunch break.

The health education building is off campus (fortunately not too far off campus, though), so I went to the main campus, had my ID programmed by the IT lady, and went back to the building. Nothing.

Another student who was walking also had trouble, so I drove us back to the IT office. Since both me and my classmate had the older IDs, she sent us to the student services building across the courtyard to get them reprinted. Great, we have new IDs. So we went back across the courtyard, got the new IDs programmed, and drove back to the building.

They still didn't work. My classmate hadn't eaten yet (I had finished my exam early and had already eaten), so she went to get food while I took both our IDs BACK to the IT lady.

There, we learned that no instructor had submitted a door plan for the entire class. The door plan basically gives which specific doors we're allowed to open on which specific days/times. Our class didn't have one. It took me three trips to the main campus to learn this!

So we have yet another weekend of knocking on doors or waiting for someone with a valid key pass to walk by and let us into lab.

Bonus: All that running around got us all nice and sweaty for our shoulder lab, which included armpit palpations. Yeah, that was great.

[fireheart]

We had a similar setup for a couple of weeks on-campus during the changeover for the new term.

Basically, if we had classes at night, we were meant to write down our student IDs and chip numbers so IT could program them in. Somehow, after the mid-semester break, those numbers were erased, despite the class times not actually changing. So day 1 in our media class (when it was previously music) was spent redoing ALL of this.

[gremcint]

That reminds me of when I got locked in a stairwell one time because while they gave us access to the elevators they didn't for the stairs so I had to wait for someone to take the stairs to let me in.

[Shangri-laschild]

Wow....I'm actually in charge of that system at my college. I add the students in from the submitted rosters and fix card issues. Sounds like they are horribly unorganized. When someone is having a card problem, the first thing I check is if they are even in the system showing that you should have access (which you only are if your roster has been added). Checking that first catches half of the issues right at the start. Sorry your school is a mess with it.

[bhskittykatt]

To IT lady's credit, she did apologize for not checking the system first to check our access. Hopefully it will be fixed soon. The last two lab weekends we used backpacks and chairs to prop doors open, and I'm not sure it was just our cohort either. Yeah, the building is super secure you guys!

[Casino Jockey]

That reminds me of when I got locked in a stairwell one time because while they gave us access to the elevators they didn't for the stairs so I had to wait for someone to take the stairs to let me in.

i had the opposite at my university. i'm frequently on campus at odd hours (combo of only 3 days of class a week plus being the parent of a special needs 3 year old child).

i was neededing to do some coding (i'm doing IT) and needed some specialist software for this. it was around 11pm. the specialist software labs are in level 5 of the IT Building. the main entrance is level 4.

I had access to the main entrance on level 4.
i had access to multiple labs on level 5
i couldn't however get to level 5. i had no life access to get from level 4 to level 5. the fire escape is set up so you can open the doors to go down, but once your in you can't get out unless you are level 4 or ground.

i had to apply for life access, pointing out the stupidity