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Originally Posted by NewChief
They're the craze at our public schools as well... but for kids to use them. Every classroom wants an iPad or two for their kids to use. I'm on the technology committee that is putting together a tech request package for the coming years, and people are kicking around purchasing iPads/tablets/netbooks for every kid (with textbook funds and getting rid of textbooks, which most people don't actually use to any great extent). I'm not sure what direction to go with that. As you said, the iPad is a nightmare for management due to the one pad to iTunes account, so I don't think I'll be pushing to go in that direction unless there is a significant change in the way that all works. Maybe the Fire. Maybe some type of thin client laptop or netbook.
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Well, you might take a look at this:
http://www.apple.com/support/ipad/enterprise/
In particular the iPhone/iPad Configuration Utility. It allows you to create a custom configuration for iPad, and save that configuration, and then load it on new iPads, so that they're all standardized. And you can control access to nearly everything through the Config Utility. Like if you didn't want the students to use the internet, you could remove the icon for Safari. Or you could take it a step further and limit Safari so that it will only open specific websites. It's not perfect by any means. But it does help considerably in environments like that.