Classroom Cloud - Device Management

[Dipl0]

Hi All, 

 

Wondered if any of you have dealt with this that might be able to enlighten me.

 

I inherited Classroom Cloud and it's quite a mess. I have reached out to Classroom Cloud support but I wondered how people dealt with device licensing. I'm not a fan of lots of manual moving parts and we have only got enough licenses to license years 7/8/9. I understand there are dynamic device group allocations which can be based on Entra ID but I'm not really understanding how that is really helping me? Our devices are named "PREFIX-SN" so can't use a name but could I maybe use a group based on the assigned user?

 

Just trying to make this an easier process that it is. Any advice accepted.

 

 

[loxford01]

Their licensing is based on the number of devices you want to monitor, but the Google side can sometimes feel “user-based” because it integrates with Google Classroom/Google accounts for class syncing, so it requires some manual input. 

[Dipl0]

@loxford01Thank you, apologies if I wasn't clear, I understand that it is licensed based on number of users but what I mean is that I'd like to make the device license assignment slicker. Currently it involves me finding the device, then going into classroom cloud, assigning it to a group and then the group assigns the license. I'm hoping for a way to smooth this process. Classroom Cloud does allow for Dynamic Device assignment based on certain scenarios but I wondered how others have done this.

 

Students are AAD joined only so no AD group that I can lean on. Even that that would be user and not device. Just spitballing ideas really for this. Considering perhaps device year groups in Intune to allow me to do some other device assignment etc but again this is a manual process as I'm not quite sure of the anchor other than the device. Saw online Device Category was mentioned which I was planning to use for something else but I suppose I could use it for this instead. 

 

Again any advice would be handy perhaps just device management and not classroom cloud specific.