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Hiya, Sasha,

BTW, thanks for the link to that text-to-video software.  

Glad to hear the SmartBoard just needed some software on the controlling computer.  That was my guess when I talked with Ms. Johnson about it at some point earlier in the quarter &mdash; good for you for actually taking care of it!

I'm inclined to defend putting nice big clear physical number tags on computers in a lab.  It makes it easy to make notes for oneself or others along the lines of "Check the audio at seat #15" ... at least it's easier than trying to do that with asset tags as the main ID, you can go right to the one intended.  

Your point is well-taken that it would be good to integrate that with the online naming or description.  Because we are constrained to the CPS conventions for network naming of the computers, the Description field would be good for this.  You could extend that to include the station number, like "Lab / Dell GX2xx / Seat 15".  (I say "Lab" instead of "206" because we've seen that the ones moved to the classrooms are still showing as 206 and messing with the printer script!)  These Description fields show up in the compliance page details chart, so a seat number would be a useful way of getting to the computer with the red splotch :) .

Thanks again,

  ==Mitch