The purpose of the new set of survey questions about "smart" classrooms is to understand, by means of annual snapshots, what campuses are spending to:

• create new smart classrooms from scratch or by conversion of existing spaces (B6.2j2)
  
  
• update existing "smart" classrooms by refreshing equipment already installed (B6.2j3)
  
  
• to support the use of such facilities on an ongoing basis (B6.2j4)

The intent is to gain from the responses to these questions a comprehensive picture of the marginal costs for "smart" classroom to inform IT planning. For this reason, we encourage campuses to include ALL applicable expenditures in responding to all three questions.

With respect to support costs, please include all expenditures related to the use of the equipment and services associated with "smart" classrooms. This includes all personnel costs attributable to on-going operation and maintenance of the facilities (reported as full-time equivalency values or as cash expenditures, whichever is appropriate) as well as supplies and services NOT connected with initial installation/conversion of with equipment refresh.

The method campuses use to pay for equipping and operating "smart" classrooms varies, as does the difficulty of linking data designed to meet campus accounting systems to such programmatic subcategories. Campuses are therefore requested to report expenditures in the manner they believe is the most accurate and reliable, and to be consistent in what is reported from year to year.