ARD & Shared file with cluster of macs

I want to share my teaching resources and want to have each emac in the cluster to have a folder for each year group & each student within that to save their work.
I intend to create the folders on my machine and then copy over to each machine using ARD.
If I set this up on my machine and then copy over items do I need to change any of the permissions for each user to save into their shared area??
Before you ask - we do not have the funds at the moment to buy a server!!!!
Many thanks

put the items in your users/shared folder. This should give them the correct permissions. Otherwise run the unix command line item to repair permissions after the copy.
Mike

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