How can I separate FCPX projects and events on external drive?

Hi there!
I'm working on a Mac Pro with two drives. One drive contains the OSX and the second drive I use to store video media. I'm running FCPX 10.0.4.
The Mac Pro is used in a teaching environment (i.e. creative suite, FCPX, iMovie, etc).
Each tutor has their own user account for their own students (i.e. Fish account for one tutor, Mouse account for another tutor). Each user account is specially setup for the apps that that particular tutor teaches.
With FCP7 I setup individual capture folders on the second drive for each user account. The FCP7 capture scratch for each tutor was set to a specific folder on the capture drive...i.e.
capture/fish/final_cut_pro_documents/
or
capture/mouse/final_cut_pro_documents/
The issue with FCPX is that if you capture to a second drive it saves the Events and Projects to the Root of the drive. This means that all captured/imported video footage from all of the user areas will be saved in one location and will be bunched together in the FCPX events and projects list.
Workaround 1:
A workaround would be to capture all footage to the OSX bootable drive so that all Events and Projects are stored in the individual user Movies folder, but I'm wary of using one drive to run the OS and High Def video footage for drive speed issues.
Workaround 2:
Another workaround would be to partition the capture drive into separate partitions for each tutor, but then one tutor may fill up their drive quicker than others and then I''d have to repartition the drive to allow for more space! (bearing in mind we have 17 Macs all setup in the same way!)
Workaround 3:
I've also tried making symbolic links from each user Movies folder to a specific location on the capture drive, but no luck.
Does anyone know of a workaround which might work?
With many thanks in advance,
Lawrence

Hi Tom,
Firstly, thank you for your reply.
From your experience, can you setup Event Manager X to automatically hide all events and projects except those edited on a specific user account...for all user accounts...or is this something a new student would have to do manually before starting a new project?
Many thanks in advance,
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