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Education

Enable secure collaboration and useful administrative AI while protecting learner information and preserving human educational judgment.

Learner-data privacyIdentity lifecycle consistencyAdministrative productivity

8 use cases across 3 service areas

Framework connections explain relevant planning considerations, not a certification or a finding that a rule applies. Confirm scope and obligations with accountable stakeholders. Explore the ten framework references.

Security

Manage academic identity lifecycles

Enrollment, graduation, and staff changes create stale or excessive access.

Approach

Define lifecycle triggers, role-based access, guest sponsorship, and review processes for supported systems.

Deliverables

  • Identity lifecycle blueprint
  • Access-review and exception procedures

Success measures: Deprovisioning timeliness and overdue reviews.

Requirements to consider

Provide appropriate access recovery and account for accessibility needs.

Framework connections

  • CISA ZTMMUse identity and device maturity planning for changing student, staff, and collaborator access without treating academic status as sufficient trust.

Security

Protect student records in collaboration

Sensitive learner information is shared across inconsistent repositories.

Approach

Scope records, classify handling requirements, and pilot protection policies with privacy and education stakeholders.

Deliverables

  • Data exposure and handling assessment
  • Classification and data loss prevention rollout plan

Success measures: Sensitive-record coverage and sharing exceptions.

Requirements to consider

Confirm student privacy, minor protection, and retention obligations.

Framework connections

  • GDPRWhere student-record processing falls within GDPR scope, document permitted purposes, access, retention, and applicable protections for children.

AI Business Solutions

Assist staff with administrative knowledge

Staff spend time searching current policies and operational guidance.

Approach

Pilot grounded assistance for approved administrative content and evaluate usefulness, citations, and access boundaries.

Deliverables

  • Approved knowledge collection
  • Pilot charter and staff enablement

Success measures: Task usefulness and source accuracy.

Requirements to consider

Exclude autonomous grading, admissions, discipline, and learner-risk decisions.

Cloud & AI

Create trusted institutional reporting

Disconnected systems make operational reporting slow to reconcile.

Approach

Agree on institutional measures and data ownership, then build minimized, governed reporting datasets.

Deliverables

  • Data-product and reporting design
  • Quality rules and access criteria

Success measures: Definition consistency and reporting rework.

Requirements to consider

Keep analysis proportionate and avoid unjustified profiling of learners.

Security

Secure shared learning and staff devices

Shared devices and distributed campuses have inconsistent management and protection.

Approach

Define device roles, enrollment, application controls, and endpoint coverage, then pilot changes with appropriate support routes.

Deliverables

  • Shared-device security baseline
  • Deployment and exception runbooks

Success measures: Managed-device coverage and unresolved policy exceptions.

Requirements to consider

Preserve accessible learning and avoid intrusive monitoring beyond approved institutional policy.

Cloud & AI

Create a bounded research-support AI platform

Research support prototypes lack consistent data permissions and release requirements.

Approach

Design an isolated application foundation using approved sources, scoped identities, evaluated outputs, and documented release decisions.

Deliverables

  • Research-support AI architecture
  • Data-use and evaluation criteria

Success measures: Evaluation coverage and unresolved data-access risks.

Requirements to consider

Respect research consent, licensing, and ethics review; exclude autonomous academic decisions.

Framework connections

  • EU AI ActWhere the Act applies, classify the actual research-support use and organizational role; do not assume that a research label removes all obligations.
  • NIST AI RMFDefine the research-support task, approved sources, evaluation evidence, and accountable release decisions before broadening access.

AI Business Solutions

Coordinate campus service requests

Facilities and administrative requests depend on repeated email handoffs.

Approach

Connect authorized request records to clear queues, service owners, approvals, and exception escalation.

Deliverables

  • Campus service workflow blueprint
  • Ownership and escalation procedures

Success measures: Request age, handoff effort, and completion quality.

Requirements to consider

Emergency and safeguarding concerns must follow established specialist processes.

Cloud & AI

Plan recovery of institutional applications

Critical administrative applications have incomplete dependency and recovery documentation.

Approach

Assess approved workloads, prioritize continuity needs, and define migration, recovery, and rollback acceptance criteria.

Deliverables

  • Application dependency assessment
  • Modernization and recovery roadmap

Success measures: Recovery readiness and closure of critical dependencies.

Requirements to consider

Plan changes around academic operations and authorize any production-impacting exercise.

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