A few weeks ago, I asked a question via Twitter and to others around:

How do you manage your Android tablets, like Nexus 7?

The answer was found lingering in a Google+ post comment by Beth Mossholder:

We are doing a pilot of Nexus 7 tablets and we have LanSchool that we use to manage them. Works great on all our devices and for $3000, we have unlimited licenses for our school. Works on Mac Linux and PC as well as Apps for Android and iOS, you are probably familiar with it; but thats what we use on our nexus 7’s

 Sure enough, when you go look at LANSchool for Android, that’s what they say:

LanSchool provides a free Student for Android tablets. LanSchool supports the Android operating system 2.3.3 and newer. Specific Android validation was performed using the following platforms: Samsung Galaxy tablets, Lenovo tablets, Google Nexus 7 tablet, and the Amazon Kindle Fire tablet.
The capabilities described below will only work with an existing LanSchool v7.7 or greater environment.

Some of their features include the following:

• Each device acts as a classroom response system testing system where students can respond to teacher questions and take tests.
• Each device acts as a classroom response system where students can respond to teacher questions.
• From the teacher’s console you can gather information on the Android device such as current application running, network information and battery charge.
• From the teacher’s console you can see a thumbnail of the device when running the LanSchool Student app.
• Receive a “Show Teacher” screen broadcast, or messages from the teacher, or ask the teacher a question

What doesn’t yet seem available–from Barnes and Noble or Google–is how to easily add purchased content onto the device. We’ll have to see how that shapes up in the future.

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