This is slightly off topic but since we do this all via Casper I thought maybe I could ask this here. We have Mac labs in all of our schools. These labs are usually iMacs on 1GB wired network connections. For students we have been using fully server based network accounts. We have been doing a redirect of the cache folders via a configuration profile, but all the other data is live on the server. So a student can log onto any machine and they get their home folder. We are doing some server and machine changes over the summer and are considering changes if we can find a better approach. We are wondering what others do in this regard.
Some of the alternate approaches we’ve considered is to set up student accounts as Mobile Accounts and then just have the student use the same machine each time. Another option we were looking at was a network account with a local home directory. When the student logs in we would have them mount a group folder for assignments and hand ins along with a server link to their documents folder so they could copy files up to the server for permanent storage. If anyone has any advice or suggestions as to how they handle student lab accounts it would be much appreciated.
