Hackers: Is it possible to hack into a school system and change your grades?

Yes. It is. Many people do it.

My professor of Systems Security told us on the first day itself. If you can hack my system and change your grade, you bloody deserve that grade!

He also put up a challenge that whoever could hack into the thermostat of the room and change the temperature, he would get an A. (Nobody could)

Let me tell you, there are only 17 students in class. The class has a capacity of 35 students for a 4 credit course. (Usually all are 3 credits).

The professor doesn’t let any random student enter the course without full check and knowing that he can survive the semester. So there are 17, brightest hackers in the university sitting inside the room and yet nobody could hack into either the professors account or the thermostat.

EDIT: I really screwed up two of my midterms and was in 50% of all the class score. Aced the Final and had a decent score in my project. Somehow scored a B+. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

In my undergrad degree, I did hack into a professor’s account but I wouldn’t call it a hack. The professor had saved her password on the browser on the computer she frequently uses. Yea right. Bummer.

So for the entire semester, I saw all the emails going through in and out of the account. All soft copies of the tests. I had a good score in that subject.

Also, the department had created some local website restricted to college servers and campus. Was on http. Run wireshark/snarf or any network monitoring tool and you know what happens then.

Could see everyones id/pass on the network. Kinda fun since many students keep the same password for their gmail/facebook account too. Never did any harm though. Just sent a self email to the accounts that it can be hacked. LOL.