Suggestions for using .folios in a classroom

Hi all,
We would like to use Indesign to create interactive .folio files in a classroom atmosphere.  My hope was that students can work on their files and export as a .folio and just pass them around to each other on for viewing/review/testing.
The free acrobat account will only allow for one Folio that is not down-loadable. In other words you must log on to your adobe account via the Adobe Content Viewer App each to view your Folio. My hope is that each student will be able to actually download the final app onto their hand-held and have it work like any other app.
Can anyone provide any good suggestions on how they would go about using these tools in a classroom of about 30 students without paying for the 5000 folio package (it looks like that is the smallest version that they have), as our budget is not anywhere near enough to cover that expense.
Thanks for any input.

The only free solution I can think of is to get each student to create their own unique Acrobat.com account. Then they can share their folios whith each other by using the Share dialogue box on the folio builder fly-out menu. Although you may have to invite each one into each workspace on Acrobat.com first though, I'm not sure.

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