The end of the school year has its own special pain, and it is collection. Thousands of devices that went out in the fall have to come back, get checked, get cleaned up, and get ready for next year. Some come back broken. Some do not come back at all. And you have a few weeks to sort it out before everyone leaves for the summer.
Here is the reframe that helped me. Collection is not a chore, it is an inventory audit. The question you are really answering is, of everything I sent out, what came back, what is damaged, and what is missing. If your inventory is accurate going in, collection becomes a process of checking devices off a known list. If it is not, collection becomes the moment you discover how far off your records drifted during the year, which is the worst possible time to find out.
In Edventory, collection works against the same device records you have been using all year. You know who had what. You can see what is outstanding. You can record damage as devices come in, which feeds straight into the repair and replacement picture for next year. The devices that never show up become a real list you can chase, not a vague feeling that some are gone.
The reward for doing this well is a quiet summer. Instead of spending July reconstructing what happened, you spend it preparing. The fleet is accounted for, the repairs are queued, and the replacements are budgeted. You earned the calm by keeping the records honest all year and treating collection like the audit it actually is.