Android Management

[OllieC]

Hi folks,

 

There's a few similar threads that I've gone through, but not feeling much closer to an answer.

 

We've got a few android tablets for staff use, purchased a few for use by students in the library and I'm at a point of needing to replace four of our old SLT iphones and will likely replace these with Android because the cost of Apple is eyewatering for something with such basic requirements.

 

Anyway! I've played with the MDM that comes with g-suite for education and... it's rank (as is the admin console itself ). Fiddly work profiles and bizarre (to the end user) disparity between apps and data on the devices when implemented, no "company owned device" option without paying for enterprise (and no, I won't pay for it).

 

Is there anyone out there that's had any success at making Android devices even slightly suitable for school use, at a staff and/or student level?

 

I don't really want to have to pay for anything, but worst case scenario, I could stretch to a small amount.. so it'd be useful to know what kind of ballpark figures people have been dealing with.

 

Thanks

[OllieC]

After some more research, have found this https://www.miradore.com/

 

Seems to have a fairly generous free offering, including organisation ownership of devices. Bit more reading up on this and I might have to have a go.

[david_1152]

How did you get on Ollie - for me, way to expensive... But that again my Head wants to roll out tablets to all students.

[OllieC]

Not really. Miradore won't do app management with the free one, they do educational pricing and £1/device/month but I can't stand the idea of having to pay to effectively use the devices. Think I'm going to end up just sticking with the abhorrent G-Suite (it's rank, how do people use this to manage their whole schools?!) stuff. Bleh!