Managing students with laptops

[Vague]

In a highschool setting where the school provides ~15 laptops for about 50 students to use. What's the best way to manage them

1. Assign teachers X amount of laptops as needed and make them manage the students
2. Assign 3 students to each laptop. Can narrow down the blame is something happens.
3. Free for all

This is an unmanaged network, each laptop will have a generic student account.

 

[wems]

buy 35 more laptops

but i think free for all is best scenario...
or assign a teacher with x amount of laptops

 

[tiraides]

The first option -- assigning them to the teachers -- is the best out of the three.

But for security purposes, having them on a secure network and severely limiting the student accounts would help you a lot.

 

[Vague]

I wish I could buy 35 more laptops.


I think what will end up happening is the teachers will sign out the laptops. All the laptops will be stored in a locked cabinet.
Thanks guys.

 

[beacon]

Free for all will end in chaos.

How big is each class?

What you can do is have 10-25 (dependent on class size) laptops on a cart and simply have teachers sign out the cart if and when laptops are needed instead of hard-assigning each teacher a certain number of laptops.

What my HS did 5+ years ago, worked fine.