Hello,
I am researching the possibility of getting sets tablets (probably Nexus 7's) for our classrooms. One of the questions that is coming up is related to apps and getting them to the devices. We have access to a great free cloud management system (Meraki.com which can be used by anybody to manage multiple devices - give is a look), but it will only blast free apps to all the tablets. If there were any paid apps we wanted to use, the service doesn't work.
While doing research on the net, I found that I wasn't the only person in this situation. Most of the recommendations centered around having the same Google Play account for each tablet, thus the devices will automatically sync when the teacher purchases an app. Since I currently don't have a tablet to play with, my question is:
Can the Google Play account be different from the Google Drive / GMail account?
Here's the reason. The plan is to go with Jelly Bean 4.2 and have a user profile for each class period. Each period, a student would log in to his/her user profile and have his/her own Google Drive and access his/her school GMail account. Is it possible to have the Google Play account be different (an account set up by the teacher)? The second part would be to not have a credit card automatically linked to the Google Play account on the tablets, so that students couldn't go out and purchase anything on their own by going into Google Play.
Thank you for your time and your expertise!
I am researching the possibility of getting sets tablets (probably Nexus 7's) for our classrooms. One of the questions that is coming up is related to apps and getting them to the devices. We have access to a great free cloud management system (Meraki.com which can be used by anybody to manage multiple devices - give is a look), but it will only blast free apps to all the tablets. If there were any paid apps we wanted to use, the service doesn't work.
While doing research on the net, I found that I wasn't the only person in this situation. Most of the recommendations centered around having the same Google Play account for each tablet, thus the devices will automatically sync when the teacher purchases an app. Since I currently don't have a tablet to play with, my question is:
Can the Google Play account be different from the Google Drive / GMail account?
Here's the reason. The plan is to go with Jelly Bean 4.2 and have a user profile for each class period. Each period, a student would log in to his/her user profile and have his/her own Google Drive and access his/her school GMail account. Is it possible to have the Google Play account be different (an account set up by the teacher)? The second part would be to not have a credit card automatically linked to the Google Play account on the tablets, so that students couldn't go out and purchase anything on their own by going into Google Play.
Thank you for your time and your expertise!