For students: (just for the sake of completeness)

FirstInitial+MiddleInitial+LastInitial+YearCreated

If I do not have their MiddleInitial, it's just left out. We don't do remove or add the MiddleInitial to try and get a unique username.

If this first choice is taken, then we add alphas on the end until we get one that isn't taken. We skip some things like 'i', 'l' and 'o' to avoid number/letter confusion. If we get to 'z', then we start adding two characters (i.e. 'aa').

For employees: (what you really wanted to know)

In order until we find an unclaimed username

FirstInitial+LastName
FirstInitial+MiddleInitial+LastName
FirstInitial+LastName+2
FirstInitial+MiddleInitial+LastName+2
FirstInitial+LastName+3
FirstInitial+MiddleInitial+LastName+3
etc....

If we do not know their MiddleInitial, those choices are skipped, of course

If they specify a Nickname during the account creation process we will substitute it for the FirstInitial in all of the above cases. UNLESS the Nickname specified has the same first characters as their Middle name, in which case we skip choices with a MiddleInitial and use their NicknameInitial in place of their FirstInitial.

--Breeze