[android tablet] Managing Android tablets

[Sibrows]

One of the things that we, as a school are currently considering is a 1:1 tablet scheme. While I am looking to avoid a which tablet is better thread I'm looking to call on the collective wisdom for managing Android devices without having to fork out £££££££'s.

 

There appear to be a couple of free options that are fairly limited in what they can achieve.

 

Meraki and 3CX are the two I have found thus far and while they are able to enforce pass codes and push apps to a device we are not able to control access to Google Play or which apps are being installed.

 

I am aware that there are some parental control apps that can be installed but I would like the situation where I have to touch the device once and then manage any changes centrally.

 

How do others deal with this situation?

[pirran]

Hi, there are a couple of threads already on this which may be of interest:

http://www.edugeek.net/forums/netbooks-pda-phones/85658-android-tablets-schools-how-does-market-work-2.htmland

http://www.edugeek.net/forums/netbooks-pda-phones/89101-manage-mutiple-android-tablets.html

 

There doesn't appear to be an all-in-one solution to managing multiple android devices, Sandbox certainly seems a good tool for locking the devices down though.