Small android devices for yr 8 students

[rbjames]

Hi,

 

My colleague has asked about the viability of the school buying android devices (thinking of galaxy a03s without the sim) for our year 8 students. Ideas for use being isams student portal for timetable, onenote for prep diary, running apps built in app inventor, teams access, kahoot etc without the need for a larger and more expensive ipad.

 

We use meraki as one of our mdms which may well be the one we'd go for (we're still under the 100 device limit as we use jamf school for our ipads) although I've still got to investigate Google's enterprise mdm offering.

 

Has anyone implemented this for any of their student groups and if so, what sort of issues have you had and ultimately, do you think it has been a worthwhile endeavour?

 

Thanks,

Richard

[Oaktech]

We've just replaced a suite of 30 ancient iPad Minis with these: https://www.lenovo.com/gb/en/tablets/android-tablets/lenovo-tab-series/Lenovo-TB-8505/p/ZZITZTATB58 we have them on the basic Google MDM.