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Working Log
Students beginning setup, troubleshooting, or technical work
Preserve what you tried, observed, verified, and will do next.
Minimum useful first pass
Write one dated paragraph about the objective, action and observation, verification, and next action.
Before you begin: Do not record passwords, access tokens, recovery codes, or private course data.
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Personal System Charter
Students making tool, setup, or maintenance decisions
Define what your computing system must protect, restore, and support.
Minimum useful first pass
Record work to protect, what must be rebuildable, hard constraints, and one current priority.
Before you begin: Use unknown, not applicable, or return later when that is the honest answer. Do not include secrets or private course data.
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Tool-Proposal Evaluation
Students considering a new application, service, automation, or workflow
Decide whether to trial, adopt, or defer a proposed tool or change.
Minimum useful first pass
Screen one proposal for a demonstrated problem, observable benefit, important cost or risk, and smallest reversible trial.
Before you begin: Stop when no safe exit path is known. Complete the extended evaluation only for a plausible trial or adoption.
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Student Ownership Agreement
Students working with a parent, mentor, instructor, or support person
Assign one technical responsibility without making support permanent or unclear.
Minimum useful first pass
Name one responsibility, each person's part, evidence of independence, and one escalation condition.
Before you begin: Preserve the privacy, security, account, managed-device, and urgent escalation boundaries in the guide.
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Personal Technology Philosophy
Students choosing how to perform and preserve repeated computing work
Record practical defaults for terminal, text, reuse, and justified exceptions.
Minimum useful first pass
Choose one terminal default, one text default, one reuse default, and one exception.
Before you begin: Add format and automation details only when applying the defaults to a real workflow.
