My kid is in Year 4 and her school is going to do BYOD with Chromebook soon (in about a month time).  I understand the school is going to send out some information to parents in the next few weeks, but I want to be more prepared.

I did a bit of research and some sources said each Chromebook needs a MDM license (i.e. a management console license, or something like that) so the school can standardise and manage each Chromebook.  Some said if you buy from the school's IT supplier, the chromebook will come with a license.  If you buy one from PBTech or Noel Leeming, you can get the chromebook cheaper, but then you need to pay the IT supplier to buy a license plus installation charge or something (so at the end it could be equally expensive).

A teacher of the school said the school might have bought enough licenses themselves so no need for parents to buy a license.

If you have read this far, you can guess I don't know much about chromebook (even I am quite good in IT stuff in general).

So, can anyone share your experience with school BYOD programs (with chromebook)?  For example, where you bought a device, what model, and how much?  Moreover, do you need to pay extra to get the MDM license, and if so, how much, and how?

Thanks a lot.