From Inefficiency to Visibility: How Lightspeed Signal is Helping Schools Maximize Budgets
IT leaders face the daunting challenge of managing tighter budgets while ensuring that technology remains effective and efficient. With the increasing reliance on digital devices for learning, the need to maximize the lifespan and utility of these devices has never been more important.
Real-Time Visibility Starts Here: Lightspeed Signal in Action Webinar Recap
“What Signal is really about is giving you time back.” With this powerful statement, Chris Travis, EVP of Sales at Lightspeed Systems, kicked off today’s webinar, emphasizing a key theme that resonates with many K-12 IT leaders.
Now Available: Lightspeed Signal Helps You See—and Solve—What’s Been Slowing You Down
Lightspeed Signal gives IT teams real-time visibility into the health of their devices, applications, and internet performance—all in one place. It’s designed to help you answer the questions that interrupt your day, cost you time, and frustrate your team.
IT Blind Spots: The Hidden Challenges K-12 Tech Teams Are Tackling
Our conversation reinforced just how challenging it is to manage IT in K-12 schools, but it also highlighted the incredible work that tech teams like…
2025 CoSN EdTech Leadership Report: 3 Urgent Challenges Facing Districts—and How Lightspeed Is Meeting the Moment
The 2025 CoSN EdTech Leadership Survey, released in May, captures a critical moment in K–12 technology leadership. Drawing on responses from hundreds of school district leaders, the report highlights mounting challenges in visibility, budgeting, and artificial intelligence (AI).
Breaking Down Silos, Optimizing Technology, and Empowering Student Success: Insights from Our Webinar
I had the pleasure of moderating today’s insightful webinar with district leaders, where we dove into some of the biggest challenges facing education today. From breaking down departmental silos to leveraging technology for informed decision-making, the conversation was filled with real-world strategies and valuable takeaways.
Device Swapping in Schools and What To Do About It
Students swap or share devices, and reporting, security, accountability and other IT reporting systems fall apart.
Lightspeed Signal closes the gap with reporting on assigned user AND actual users. Easily spot when an unassigned or unrostered user logs into a device.
⚡ Lightning Chat: Proxies, VPNs, and the Hidden Risks on School Devices
For our first episode, Matthew Burg (Principal Product Manager, Lightspeed Filter) sits down with Rob Chambers (EVP of Product) to unpack a challenge schools (and Lightspeed) know all too well: students constantly looking for ways to bypass web filters.
5 Essential Reports for K-12 IT Admins
K-12 technology administrators are the unsung heroes of today’s digital classrooms, juggling everything from device rollouts and network security to software updates and user support. A key part of this role is having clear, actionable data that informs everything from budgeting to bandwidth allocation.
How 7 Critical K-12 IT Challenges Sparked Lightspeed Signal’s Creation
K12 IT leaders have a tall order: keep devices secure and compliant, manage assets effectively, troubleshoot connectivity issues, and respond to outages before chaos erupts—all with limited time and resources. Rather than guess what districts need, we asked them directly.
