Operational writing on device visibility in education environments.

Plain-English takes on the recurring asset-register and device-visibility problems we see in K-12 districts, higher education, and federally funded research. Each article is meant to be useful to someone closing a tab on the way to a meeting.

K-12 · Asset management

Chromebook sprawl and the asset register: why the gap grows every year

The procurement spreadsheet, the MDM console, and the network never agree on the chromebook count. The article walks through the four sources of drift (loss, breakage, off-network use, and never-enrolled units), why each one is hard to close manually, and what a continuous-inventory approach actually changes.

K-12 + Higher Ed · Privacy

FERPA and device visibility: the boundary that matters

Device-discovery work raises a fair question from school district counsel and from university privacy officers: where does FERPA apply? The article names the boundary line clearly. Network-layer device identification operates underneath the systems that hold student records; FERPA-protected data is never in scope.

K-12 · Funding · Compliance

E-Rate Category 2 and state cyber grants: making the inventory evidence count

Federal E-Rate Category 2 funding and the state-level cyber-readiness grants both ask the district to demonstrate inventory accuracy. The article covers what the funding offices actually expect, what counts as evidence, and how the documentation slots into the application packet without doubling the work.