Students accessing the Cned platform. (drawing) – GUILLAUME SOUVANT / AFP
In the aftermath of bugs linked to faulty servers and computer attacks, distance education still encountered hiccups or slowdowns this Wednesday, especially in Normandy, Grand-Est, Ile-de-France and Hauts-de-France, according to unions. The Snes-FSU, the first secondary school union, indicated “bugs reported again at the end of the morning (Wednesday) on the ENT (digital work environments) in Normandy, in the Grand-Est and in Ile-de-France and Hauts- of France “. “Another beautiful morning of hardship with the #ENT Normans who work in snatches. Courage to all! “, We could read on Twitter in particular.
Concerning the educational continuity site “My Class at Home”, a Cned device, the Snes-FSU or even the Snuipp-FSU (first primary school union), assured Wednesday that it “does not work.[ait] not “. “As this is a national system, it concerns a large part of French territory,” said Sophie Vénétitay from Snes-FSU.
Fewer connections on Wednesdays, however
“It is all the more worrying because it is Wednesday and this day of the week is supposed to cause fewer connections than the other days because many students only have the morning of class or no class at all” , said Guislaine David, general secretary of Snuipp-FSU. Another fear, raised by Sophie Vénétitay: “If the students could not connect on Tuesday, then Wednesday, we will lose students that we could easily have kept with an effective system.”
This new morning of hiccups comes the day after bugs linked to faulty servers and computer attacks. The Minister of National Education Jean-Michel Blanquer had explained as early as Tuesday that part of the connection problems could be explained by attacks on servers, coming from abroad. On Wednesday, the cybercrime section of the Paris prosecutor’s office announced that it had opened an investigation after a series of computer attacks against the Cned platform on the first day of the return of distance school education linked to the Covid-19 pandemic.