Filter the roster by building
The roster in Settings now has a building filter next to the Show menu. Pick a building to see just its students and staff, or No building to find the people the Google sync or a CSV import hasn't placed yet. It works together with search and the Students, Staff and Removed views.
Helpdesk statuses are yours to name
New, In Progress, Waiting on Parts and Done are now fully editable for each help desk. In the help desk's Configure panel, under Statuses, you can rename and recolor a status, move it up or down the board, choose which status new tickets start in, and choose which statuses close a ticket. Tickets already in a status follow its new name straight away. Deleting a status that still has tickets asks where to move them, and the list shows how many tickets each status holds. Each help desk keeps one starting status and at least one closed status, so tickets always have somewhere to start and somewhere to finish.
Google roster sync: moving a student's OU now moves them in Edventory
When you move a student to another org unit in Google, the roster sync now updates their building to match. Each org-unit rule in Settings → Google Workspace can name a building, so a rule like /Students/Lincoln → Lincoln High puts everyone in that OU, and the OUs under it, in that building. Before, buildings were only matched by the Chromebook OU they came from, which student OUs rarely sit under, so synced students often had no building and moving them changed nothing. Grades still come from per-grade OU rules, and moving someone into a staff OU now clears their grade. Sync roster now waits for the sync to finish, then tells you how many people were added, updated and deactivated and reloads the roster, which now has a building column. Sync now also syncs the roster when the nightly roster sync is on.
Name your loaners: Loaner 1, Loaner 2
Loaner devices can now have a short name, like Loaner 1, that stays tied to the device's serial number. The loaner pool lists loaners by name in order, so staff can find Loaner 7 at a glance, click Check out, type who has it and press Enter. Name devices as you add them to the pool (the next number fills in for you), rename one from its row, or use Name unnamed loaners to number every loaner that doesn't have a name yet. Names show on the On loan list and in loan history, and you can search by them. Each name is used once in your district, and removing a device from the pool frees its name.
Edventory Agent for Macs
The Edventory Agent now runs on Macs as well as Windows PCs, so Macs outside your MDM keep their inventory record current on their own. It uses the same connector and enrollment key as your PCs. Install it with one Terminal command from Settings → Connectors, with the installer package, or from Jamf, Mosyle or another MDM using the configuration profile in the same panel. Each Mac reports its model, serial number, macOS version, storage, memory, FileVault status, Wi-Fi and Ethernet addresses, and battery wear on laptops, at startup and once a day. Like the Windows agent it is read-only: it sends facts and receives nothing.
Removing someone from the roster now sticks
Removing a student or staff member from the roster used to last only until the next Google roster sync or CSV import, which put them straight back. Now a removal stays put: the sync and imports leave that person off the roster, and an import tells you how many rows it skipped for that reason. Pick Removed in the menu next to the roster search to see who was removed, when and by whom, and to restore anyone removed by mistake.
Exclude a student from Device Usage
For a parent who opted out, or an account that shouldn't be measured, you can now exclude a student from Device Usage. Use Exclude from Device Usage on the student's usage page, the Exclude button in the unmatched-mailbox list, or type an email address in the new Excluded from Device Usage card in Usage settings. Excluding someone deletes the usage already collected for them, and from then on nothing they do is recorded, on any device. Device Care 0.1.4 also stops measuring on the Chromebook itself. You can include them again at any time; measuring starts fresh from that point.
Device Usage grades: Reach and Days used
The Grades table in Device Usage now shows Reach and Days used in place of Students and Student-days. Reach compares the students in each grade who used a device during the dates you picked with the students on that grade's roster, for example 89%, 142 of 160, so the ones whose Chromebook isn't reporting stand out. Days used is how many days, on average, each of those students used a device. Students who are excluded from Device Usage, or have no school email on the roster, aren't counted.