These past few weeks CCSD has been fighting to reset all of the student’s passwords due to a security breach on October 25th. With no way to turn assignments in, Students and staff panicked as due dates approached. Whenever students attempted to log into their Myaccount CCSD website, to change their passwords, the site would crash because of the large quantity of students.

The cyberattack had a significant negative impact on student’s grades and created a substantial workload for teachers as they needed to make up for lost time. Desert Oasis Junior Briana Ruiz stated, “My grades have decreased, Well, I know my grades decreased because they weren’t able to
input them. As a result, there was a lot of confusion with some assignments that were done on paper and some of them have been transferred into the gradebook.”

As weeks went by, progress was slow, every morning teachers would reattempt to get their students logged in. However, the site would still continue to experience crashes. During this time students were also unable to access the website outside of school, further complicating the situation.

DOHS senior, Hope Merritt, commented,” I feel like they could have handled it a little faster. I mean, it took a long time to get everybody’s passwords reset, and there probably could have been more preventative measures to have that not happen in the first place.”

It wasn’t until staff began pulling students out of their classes to individually reset their passwords that things took a turn for the best.

“I thought it was kind of weird how they made us go on our own time,” student Alexandra Alvarez continues, ” then they started bringing students to the library, and that’s when I got my password fixed.”

Although the issue has been fixed, students are still having trouble catching up with assignments.

Student athlete, Merritt, comments on the struggle with catching up on all the old assignments as well as the newly assigned ones.

“I had a lot of missing assignments, you know because the teachers kept assigning work even though we couldn’t access it. So they’re (my grades) not very good right now,” Merritt admits, “I am not caught up yet and I haven’t really started catching up because I’ve been so busy with work and skating and I don’t know but I’m going to have to try and catch up this weekend.”

Overall, Desert Oasis High School appears to be back on track and students are grateful to have access to all of their coursework once again.

“I’m doing good! I’m getting caught up, which is stressful because there is a lot of work that that I’ve had to do to catch up but its definitely doable but just very inconvenient,” says Ruiz.