How come digital processes seem easier but are often harder to manage? A major shift to digital teaching and learning in schools has developed an additional digital traffic load for teachers and faculty, hidden from normal view. The result is overwhelming increases in the traffic load of digital paperwork. Digital processes are “harder” for several reasons but could be much easier were the right technologies in use. Hidden traffic burdening teachers and administration distracts from teaching and learning and is therefore of critical concern to all curriculum leaders, not just the technology department.