Automatic Logout after inactivity

I am trying to figure out the best way to 'kick' students off our lab machines at the end of the day.
As it is right now, the machines are set to 'log out after 30 minutes of inactivity' and to shutdown at 10:00pm each night. What happens is someone leaves and unsaved document open causing the logout and shutdown to be cancelled.
I understand the inconvenience that could be caused by giving forcing logouts and shutdowns, but I still want to.
Can the inactivity log out be given more power? Can I have the log out ignore unsaved work?

Thank you for your response, but that guide doesn't have any information on logging out users other than the security preference pane.
I have, however, been able to find a script which accomplishes the force logout of a user...
kill -9 `ps -Axjc | grep loginwindow | grep student | cut -c 13-16`
Currently this script is scheduled to run to make sure the machines are able to shutdown each night.
While this gets me one step closer, I would like to run this script on inactivity instead. Can this be done..?
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