Creating Student Web Site Folders on Leopard Server

We recently got an Xserve to use as a Web server for hosting my class site and my student Web sites (~220 per year). I have it setup as a Web server no problem and it is already hosting the class page.
I have no clue how to run it like an ISP host or whatever it is called. I need to make the student accounts/folders and have them be able to ftp their site. For example:
hxxx://server.com/students/student1/index.html
hxxx://server.com/students/student2/index.html
hxxx://server.com/students/student3/index.html
How do I do this? I also installed Webmin, but I have never used it before. Also, I have the ability to download my class roster as a file, so hopefully I can use that to mass create accounts. That is what I do with the Open Directory server and Passenger.

We have two Xservers. One has all the accounts and acts as the Open Directory server for all of the students' home directories. The other is the Web server and doesn't have any student accounts, at the moment. That is the part I am not sure on. How should I create users/accounts on the Web server with empty home folders that the student can ftp to and nothing else.
Apache, ftp, and afp is running at the moment. I use ftp to upload the class site. I need to figure out how to create a bunch of folders and users so that students only have access to their folder. I'd prefer if they showed up as:
hxxx://server.com/students/student1/index.html,
hxxx://server.com/students/student1/index.html,
etc.

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